Nov 8, 2014
Poor governance of sports organisation leads to disappearance of observers from public meetings.
EU Athletes recently requested to WADA the right to participate at their next Foundation Board meeting to be held in Paris 15-16 Nov.
Here is below the answer from WADA, received by email 5 Nov
“Thank you for your message regarding attendance at our upcoming meetings taking place in Paris on 15-16 November.
For your information, our Executive Committee meeting is a restricted forum, closed to the public. Our Board meeting on the other hand is public and those wishing to observe are welcome. However, we regret to advise that on this particular occasion, we have had to restrict attendance due to limited space in the meeting room. Indeed, the meeting is being held in one of the National Assembly’s smaller, historic buildings and we have attained maximum room capacity. As a result, we are in a position where we must now decline any requests we receive. That said, please rest assured that should there be a change in numbers, we will let you know.
We apologize but trust you understand the circumstances.
Kind regards”
EU Athletes Board is taking this issue really seriously and EU Athletes President Yves Kummer have recently addressed to Mr David Howman a letter to offer WADA support in staff and resources to find a bigger venue for the meeting or to organise a video link.
As a reminder WADA minutes are not released for 6 months after meetings and observers have to rely on access to be able to monitor progress.
At the same time French players Unions are organising their testing pool players in order for them to give their whereabouts location at the venue of the meeting during the time of the conference.
This situation is not acceptable for EU Athletes and its members representing more than 25.000 professional athletes in Europe.
Oct 30, 2014
Alison Smith from the University of Bath gave a interesting and valuable speech about their course about Talented Athlete Lifestyle Support (TALS).
The main purpose with the course is to educate PDMs in issues that are adequate for their occupation.
The course itself contains five different units, that all are one day long each. Depending on the unit they cover both practice and theory. Today the main delivery is to take one day per month during a five months period, but a block delivery exists as well. The later means that you first take the three first units, and then after a month go through the two last.
Since the start in February 2013, 56 learners have completed the course. The students have represented 16 universities across the UK, but a growing number of attendees has been working within sports.
By: EUA
Oct 29, 2014
PDM conference kicks in today, follow it live on twitter.
European commission financed project “Improving Player association support for dual career” starts today in Helsinki (Finland). Follow the 3 days conference live on social media @EUAthletes on on our associations accounts.
By: EUA
Jun 20, 2014
One of EU Athletes goal is to help to set up player association in Europe. By using the UNI Europa project “Supporting test phase of the ESSDC in European Sport Sector” we are gathering new player association together.
The project “Supporting test phase of the ESSDC in European Sport Sector” co financed by the European Commission helps EU Athletes, in partnership with UNI Europa, to bring together people who are setting up new player association in Europe.
The meeting in Stockholm was the round table for the professionnal sport sub sector. 6 new player associations participated in this meeting.
The aim of the round table was to present on one hand the social dialogue guide created during a previous project and also to help them set up their work plan for the rest of the year, organise their ideas and priorities.
Setting up a player association is not easy, a lot of areas need to be covered but more importantly contact with players and team visits are a key factor in order to create and establish the organisation.
During the next couple of months, we will follow up with those associations and invite them to attend other meetings and conferences where they will meet the entire EU Athletes group.
By: EU Athletes
May 27, 2014
During 2 days the all the UNI Europa Sport members were in Bilbao to have an exchange on the development of a risk assessment tools in their respective sectors.
After receiving a presentation from EU OSHA on their OIRA tool, Vincent GOUTTEBARGE from FIFPRO and Roger SUTTON from the live performance sector, each sub sector started to create their own tool in small working gourps.
By creating modules and areas of concerns, it will help the entire sector to create their first ever tool in the field of professional sport, active leisure and outdoors.
It’s an important step forward for workers of each sub sectors. By raising awareness on potential areas of risks and also creating a unique instrument that will help to improve the minimum standards of the sector on health and safety of their employees.
By: EUA
May 12, 2014
Vasilis Minoudis presented PROtect Integrity project at IRIS event last week.
Iris with a co financing of the European Commission is implemented conferences in different EU member states to evaluate match fixing legal framework and initiative in the field of education and prevention.
Vasilis Minoudis from HPVPA and also staff member of the PROtect Integrity project gave an overview of the work of EU athletes in this field.
