Chair of the EPAS Governing Board 2 1.E N G S O G e n e r a l A s s e m b l y EU Seminar 7 June 2013, Belgrade Ewa Markowicz Chair of the EPAS Governing Board
What is EPAS? body set up within the Council of Europe to promote the development of sport established in 2007 Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport ”enlarged” – open for non CoE countries ”partial” – voluntary
First pan-european sport platform with 2 pillars: NGOs Consultative Commitee Governments Governing Board
35 Member States Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.
28 Consultative Commitee Members International Basketball Federation Europe – FIBA-Europe International Council of Sports Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) International Sports Federations (SportAccord) International University Sports Federation (FISU) Peace and Sport Sport & Citizenship Think Tank Sports Rights Owners Coalition (SROC) Tennis Europe The Association for International Sport for All (TAFISA Europe) Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) FARE Network Play the Game Panathlon International European Athlete Student Network (EAS) European Elite Athletes Association (EU Athletes) European Fair Play Movement (EFPM) European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) European Handcycling Federation European Judo Union (EJU) European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO) European Olympic Committees (EOC) European Paralympic Committee (EPC) European Physical Education Association (EUPEA) European Rugby Association (FIRA-AER) European Women and Sport (EWS) Federation of International Amateur Sambo (FIAS) Homeless World Cup Foundation
Ministerial Conferences 12. Conference (Belgrade, Serbia, 15 March 2012) 13. Conference (Magglingen, Switzerland, 17-19 September 2014)
Standard-setting and monitoring draft convention on match-fixing draft recommendation on gender mainstreaming in sport Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)10 on the protection of child and young athletes from dangers associated with migration consultative visits
Promotion of diversity and fight against discrimination 2012 – fight against homophobia in sport 11-12.10.2012 Conference „United against homophobia in sport”, Utrecht 2013 – children and youth 7-8.10. 2013 Political conference in Budapest 2014 – sport in prisons …….. 2014 Political conference in…… 2015 - ??
Follow-up activities Collection "Sport policy and practice” Collection of "Good practice handbooks" http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/epas/Publications/publications_collection_handbook_en.asp
Other acivities More information on the website of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS): http://www.coe.int/EPAS
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