The Presidency Conference on Traditional Sports and Games will highlight sport’s role as part of Europe’s culture, history and traditions. This will be a one day conference featuring panels of domestic and international speakers.
The conference will focus on traditional sports which will serve to highlight sport’s role as part of Europe’s culture, history and traditions as well as supporting social cohesion, integration, volunteering, and active citizenship. It will bring together senior stakeholders, including practitioners and policy makers such as heads of national governing bodies of sport, international sporting officials, representatives from international sporting federations, academics, sportspersons and representatives from national sporting organisations.
A Policy Summary Report, summarising the conference's messages, conclusions and findings will be prepared after the conference. This report will be distributed across EU institutions and member states, as well as domestic and international stakeholders.