News 2023
The 2023 Highlights of the Sport Division
Over the last 12 months, our team has relentlessly promoted human rights in and through sport. In 2023 sport integrity took centre stage – to ensure the integrity of people, of organisations, and of competitions in sport! Some of the key moments of the year include: For the Enlarged Partial...
Denmark signs the Saint-Denis Convention
Jens Kisling, Permanent Representative of Denmark, formalised, this 11th December, before the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Bjørn Berge, the signature of the Council of Europe Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other...
Anti-Doping evaluation visit to Albania
A team of Council of Europe experts carried out an evaluation visit to Albania on 5 and 6 December 2023, to assess the country’s anti-doping programme, practices and policies in the context of its implementation of the Anti-Doping Convention. The team met with representatives of the public...
Annual meeting of the Pool of International Experts on Safe Sport: focus on safer recruitment in sport
The Pool of International Experts on Safe Sport held their second annual meeting on 5 December 2023 in hybrid format (Strasbourg and online). Organised by the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) in the framework of the “Start to Talk” project, the meeting included a roundtable entitled...
Sport integrity at the centre of the EPAS Statutory Committee extended meeting
Protecting the integrity of sport has been one of the main objectives of the Council of Europe’s Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) since its creation in 2007. The annual meeting of the EPAS Statutory Committee was held on 4 December 2023 in Strasbourg, followed by an extended session...
EPAS Diversity Conference: including child migrants and refugees in and through sport
The Council of Europe’s Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) held its biennial Diversity Conference organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sport of the Principality of Liechtenstein under the framework of the Liechtenstein Presidency of the Committee...
Sport Integrity Week to fight the manipulation of sports competitions
The Sport Integrity Week to fight the manipulation of sports competitions is being held in Athens from 27 November to 1 December. This first-ever joint venture is co-organised by the Council of Europe, the International Olympic Committee, INTERPOL, UEFA, the Greek National Platform for Sport...
Education as a tool for clean sport: the Advisory Group on Education meets in Vienna
The Advisory Group on Education of the Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention met in Vienna (Austria), on 21-22 November. Education is key to empowering athletes to navigate the anti-doping rules and adhering to clean sport. Experts shared experiences and best practices on how to design...
WADA annual meeting: Reforms and key governance issues discussed to help combat doping in sports world-wide
Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General Bjørn Berge has represented the Council of Europe in the annual meetings of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 16 and 17 November in Montreal, Canada. The Deputy Secretary General attended the Executive Committee and participated, as a member...
The Saint-Denis Committee holds its first monitoring visit
A team of Council of Europe experts carried out a monitoring visit to Germany, from 17 to 19 November 2023, to assess its approach to the organisation of major sports events, in particular the UEFA EURO 2024. The aim of the visit was to support the German authorities in the effective...
Submission deadline: 11 December 2023 at 12:00 CET (noon)
Call for proposals for the creation of a pool of international experts supporting the Council of Europe’s work in combating hate speech in sport
The Council of Europe Sport Division is looking for international experts to support the implementation of the joint project “Combating Hate Speech in Sport” co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe will select a...
The Monitoring Group of the Anti-doping Convention (T-DO) holds its 57th meeting
More than 50 European experts met for two days to discuss the reinforcement of the fight against doping in Europe. The Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention (T-DO) reviewed the implementation of the Recommendation on fair procedure applicable to anti-doping proceedings in sport, as...
The Ad Hoc European Committee for the World Anti-Doping Agency (CAHAMA) holds its 62nd meeting
The Ad Hoc European Committee for the World Anti-Doping Agency (CAHAMA) held its sixty-second meeting in Strasbourg, France, on 8 and 9 November. More than 75 European representatives from Council of Europe member States discussed global anti-doping issues, heard about the progress made on the...
Preserving the integrity of sport by combatting illegal betting
A Council of Europe conference in Rabat (Morocco) aims to raise awareness of illegal betting, one of the biggest challenges to sport integrity and a key target in the fight against the manipulation of sports competitions, as addressed by the Macolin Convention. During the conference speakers are...
All In Plus informative session: promoting greater gender equality in sport through the media
Media and sports journalism have the power to present and represent the prism through which we digest sports content. This is a huge responsibility and given the billion-dollar industry that sport constitutes, power, money and influence abound. For this reason, the joint European Union - Council...
The United Kingdom ratifies the Saint-Denis Convention
Alex Chalk, Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice the of United Kingdom, deposited, on 31 October 2023, before the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Bjørn Berge, the instrument of ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and...
Call for applications: Pool of International Experts on Safe Sport
The Pool of International Experts on Safe Sport is a unique group of multidisciplinary experts covering all forms of violence and abuse against children in sport. It brings together policy-makers, researchers and academics, specialists supporting people with lived experience, (child) safeguarding...
The Committee of the Saint-Denis Convention and its Ad hoc Working Group on UEFA EURO 2024 meet in Strasbourg
The Saint-Denis Committee held its 4th meeting – the first one fully in-person – in Strasbourg, on 18-19 October 2023, back-to-back with the first meeting of its Ad hoc Working Group on UEFA EURO 2024, which will be hosted by Germany. The Committee notably adopted the monitoring report on the...
Cooperation for clean sport at the heart of the Council of Europe and WADA Montreal meetings
A team of experts from the Council of Europe Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention (T-DO) held meetings with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, Canada, from 16 to 18 October 2023. The meetings encompassed key anti-doping aspects, spanning from scientific advancements to...
The online course on the Saint-Denis Convention now available in Portuguese
Irena Guidikova, Head of the Children’s Rights and Sport Values Department at the Council of Europe, opened the "1st International Congress on Safety and Security at Sports Events (S4 Congress)" via video message, organised by the Portuguese Authority for the Prevention and Fight Against...
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