How does the NSGO work? The National Sports Governance Observer (NSGO) National Sports is creating a robust framework for improving governance in national sports organisations by: Governance • Establishing, sustaining and nurturing domestic networks of public authorities and sport stakeholders Observer • Developing and applying the national version of the ‘Sports Governance Observer’ Benchmarking sports governance • Exchanging and disseminating good practices across national boundaries • Monitoring the implementation of good Photo: Colourbox governance standards

Target groups • Elected and employed sports officials in national sports federations and national confederations “Together, we will be able to strengthen • External stakeholders and policy makers with relevance for the sports community in the the debate on how sport is governed European countries in the respective countries, and we will • Employees of ministries, local administration and public institutions with relation to sport be able to compare the governance • Expert academics and non-academic researchers standards across sports, across national • The wider public as it can be reached via media boundaries, and across the national contacts, fan groups, stakeholder groups and the communication platforms run in the first instance and international level.” by Play the Game/Danish Institute for Sports Jens Sejer Andersen, International director, Studies and secondarily by the project partners Photo: Colourbox Play the Game

Get more information Visit www.nationalsportsgovernanceobserver.org Or contact the project coordinator Jens Sejer Andersen, International Director, Play the Game, at: E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +45 20 71 07 01 Photo: _OSCD_Ruslan Urazalin The Sports Governance Observer goes Who are behind? Project coordinator national The project is funded by a grant worth 383,000 euros ‘The Sports Governance Observer 2015’ report from the EU’s Erasmus+ programme and subsidies from has identified serious governance deficiencies in the Danish parliament. Play the Game/ the Danish international sport. It shows that most international Institute for Sports Studies will act as the coordinator sports federations fail to comply with basic standards of of academics and sports leaders in Belgium, Cyprus, democracy, transparency and accountability. Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Romania who are all eager to embark on a reform Full project partners But what is the state of governance in national sports process. federations? Teaming up with sports bodies and researchers from eight European countries, Play the Game sets out to Full project partners create a benchmarking tool that assesses the level of Will conduct the academic research and write the good governance in national sports federations: the national reports in their respective countries. National Sports Governance Observer (NSGO). • Danish Institute for Sports Studies/Play the Game • German Sport University Cologne Goals of the NSGO • KU Leuven • Molde University College (MUC) • Enable sports leaders and outside stakeholders to • University of Bucharest measure, discuss and amend governance standards • University of Warsaw and practices • Utrecht University • Establish sustainable networks between academics, practitioners and other key stakeholders Associate project partners Associate project partners • Educate and train sports leaders, researchers, and Will give advice, assist in the development and government representatives to understand, and implementation of the benchmarking tool, and share sustain good governance standards and practices results from the ‘National Sports Governance Observer’. • Provide government officials with knowledge and • Cyprus Sports Organisation (CSO) tools that enable them to engage in dialogue with • Danish Football Association (DBU) the sports movement • Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS), • Initiate public debates on sports governance to a Council of Europe wider public in order to raise the awareness of the • European Association for Sports Management topics and challenges related to good governance (EASM) in sport • Flemish Sports Confederation (VSF) • International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) • Norwegian Football Association (NFF) Photo: Colourbox • Polish Golf Union (PGU) • Romanian Football Federation (FRF) Co-funded by Stakeholders from other countries will be included in the course of the project on their own accounts.

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