"Managing conflicting Agendas – Profit, Participation or Performance?"

In its function as partner of Play The Game, ICSSPE coordinates a conference session on 31 October 2013.

Under the title "Managing conflicting Agendas – Profit, Participation or Performance?", the session aims at discussing the nexus of governmental, non-governmental and corporate activities in sport systems and policies, and how to manage different interests and objectives. Encompassing all relevant sectors and actors while stressing the interconnectedness of all themes covered by national and international sport policies, the session addresses pressing issues with regard to access to and participation in physical activity and sport, physical education, infrastructure, mega events, and good governance.  

Speakers include representatives from academia, journalism and the sport sector.

The 8th world communication conference on sport and society will take place in Aarhus, Denmark, from 28 until 31 October. The conference covers the following six main themes:

  • Match fixing: Fair game for gangsters? • Sports reforms: Fact or phantom? • The anti-doping dilemma: Saving sport, sacrificing athletes? • Recreational sport: A lost cause for sports organisations? • Sports facilities: Who are we building for? • From Russia to Rio: Power games or people’s games?

The organisers expect up to 300 experts and stakeholders from different sport-related sectors and aim at fostering dialogues and debates on current challenges and perspectives that sport and society envisage.  

More information can be obtained from http://www.playthegame.org/conferences