While the Union of European Football Associations Makes Last-minute arrangements for a Safe Organization of the Postponed Men’s European Football Championship, and as Paris Prepares to Host the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sport Diploma, Its Essential Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Fortial Strength Strengthened Strength Strengthened Strength Strengthening Strengthening Strengthening, take advantage of such a symbolic sports calendar to think concrete in a sports policy at the EU level.
In fact, sports diplomacy, if implemented at the EU level, could serve different objectives: on the one hand, a greater integration of the EU could and improve interrelations between EU countries, while, internationally, they encourage socio-political. As the Eurocepticism now regularly feeds the speeches of numerous political parties through the EU, a region that risks to be particularly fragilized by the impact of innovative and innovative policies COVID-13, as a sports diplomacy of the EU.
It is within this context that Towards a sports diplomacy of the European Union (TES-D)A new initiative co -founded by the Erasmus+ Sport program, was launched in January 2021 by the French Institute of Strategic and International Affairs (IRIS), a group of experts based in Paris, together with a rich consortium and seven United and Season Organizations
The main objective of TES-D is to improve the dialogues between several stakeholders of the European Union (EU) about the place that sport could occupy in European politics. More specifically, its objective is to propose recommendations for contole policies on how to implement a common sports diplomacy to the entire EU region by the official project of the project in December 2022.
On the way and for the next two years, TES-D will regularly share your research findings in A dedicated web page And grow a network of relevant interested parties interested in the intersection between sport and diplomacy in the EU through its LinkedIn page. In fact, the diverse TES-D consortium is determined to make this project activate, with an approach to the construction of a network, a series of online tools and 5 pilot actions.
The desktop research, another important TES-D pillar that reflects the academic approach, imagined around the hypothesis that the sum of all the good existing practices of the EU countries with respect to sports diplomacy could add EU sports diplomacy. Therefore, the project will write 27 reports of the 27 sports diploma of EU countries, in addition to other case studies that are not from the EU and a review of the literature on the concept of sports diplomacy itself. The findings, combined with the mood of interactions of the TES-D Network and other activities, will lead to the publication of policy recommendations on EU sports diplomacy in December 2022.
The completion of the objectives of the projects, which will be received as a mere beginning of the conversation at the EU level around sports policy and cultural diplomacy, a conference held in Paris will be presented in December 2022. In September 2022, another event focused on initiality. If the COVID-19 pandemic relief, TES-D will also participate in the Mudez Congress in Brussels in November 2021.
Research Associate in Iris – Institut The International Relationships Et Stratégiques, Paris
