|  | ICSSPE News | No.58 January 2010 |
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Sport Connects our Countries First German-Chinese Symposium on Sport Science held at Ministerial Level |

"Sport Connects our Countries" was the theme of the first sport science symposium hosted in cooperation by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany, and the General Administration of Sport of China. Additional partners were the Federal Institute of Sport Science, Germany, the Beijing Sport University and the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE).
The symposium was the first step into a new cooperation between China and Germany in sport politics and resulted from the signing of a Letter of Intent between Germany’s Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, and the Minister of Sport of China, Liu Peng, in April, 2008. Schäuble stated that “this symposium provides an excellent possibility of a recessed exchange of experiences between renowned experts and it contributes to understand the respective structures and development of the different sport systems”.
At the symposium, which focused on sport structures in both countries, sport medicine and sports law, experts from both countries presented papers, allowing the audience to have a direct comparison between characteristics and developments in both countries.
Amongst the participants were more than 100 students from the Beijing Sport University who asked questions and participated in discussions. Detlef Dumon, ICSSPE Executive Director, who led the sessions and the panel discussion at the end of the conference, was impressed by the interest of the students: “Especially the two topics, sport structures and sports law, caught the attention of many of them”, Dumon said.
Presentations will be published as proceedings and will be available on the ICSSPE website (www.icsspe.org).

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