19TH MAY 2020WEBINAR

Setting the scenes and outlining some key objectives of the Webinar

Aimed at discussing and collecting the best practices around Europe to guide the sport sector inthe post COVID19 economy

The idea would be to come to some relevant conclusions “bottom up and top down” on for instance, theneed for:

• Stimulating innovative solutions for short, medium and long term for a healthy activelifestyle (modus: public private alliances and support SME to come up with “new normal”solutions)

• The development of a database for best practices for innovation and business creation in the“new normal”,

• The launch of a thorough European Study on the precise economic and social impact ofCOVID19 on the sport sector

• The need for a combined European overarching lobbying effort “top down and bottom up” tosupport the sport ecosystem, articulated around very simple key messages that everybody canunderstand:

EPSI: European Platform for Sport Innovation

ClusSPort : Regional consortium around Sport on Smart Specialization

Smart4GoodLife: European Commission COSME Project

Inno4Sport : European Commission INTERREG project

Organising stakeholders

Efforts will have to be done both “bottom up” and “top down” involving all interested parties in an articulated and complementary manner.

EPSI is a European membership-based networking organisation focusing oninnovation in the areas of physical activity related to sport, leisure and health.

We are 78 organisations from 21 countries, among which:

Sport Associations/Federations

Industries and SMEs Communication Agencies

ClustersResearch CentersUniversities

In addition to members, we have Strategic Partners for business and projects.

Public Authorities

EUROPEAN PLATFORM FOR SPORT INNOVATION

WHO WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

Aimed at convincing policy makers to invest more resources in the sport sector. More public investments and

more subsidies

Aimed at helping our members to receive these public investments and build up project ideas in the

framework of the many EU financing programmes such as Erasmus+ /

COSME or Horizon 2020 for example

Aimed at pushing our members to create new self-sustaining / long

lasting businesses so as to grow the economy and return consequently

the financial means to policymakers through taxes, levies and duties

LOBBYING FUNDRAISING BUSINESS CREATION

EUROPEAN PLATFORM FOR SPORT INNOVATION

CLUSSPORT

● ClusSport is the project consortium in the thematic area of Sport of theSmart Specialization Platform for Industrial Modernization.

● Sport, in its different forms, and physical activity are identified as driversfor economic growth. It is embedded with other sectors such as tourism,health, and transport. Sport can help specific business sectors to develop.

● The main objective of the ClusSport is to help strengthen the sportindustries at EU level. This interregional partnership brings togetherstakeholders from the sport sector and related industries.

CLUSSPORTLEADING REGIONSLapland (FI)South Netherlands (NL)

PARTICIPATING REGIONSFlanders (BE)Kainuu (FI)Upper Austria (AT)Valencia (ES)Catalonia (ES)Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (FR) Dalarna (SE)Trento (IT)Emilia Romagna (IT)

Hajdú-Bihar (HU)(European Platform for Sport Innovation - EPSI)

SMARTSPORTS4GOODLIFE

The project aims to continue the cooperation andcollaboration among the sports clusters to provide andcreate new business opportunities for SMEs,strengthen Clusters management capacities to transferknowledge to SMEs.

The project will improve cross-sectoral cooperation,especially with technology, energy, tourism andhealth sectors, to address the main challenges thesector is facing in Europe and advance inthe digitalisation process and the provision of lowcarbon products and services.

SMARTSPORTS4GOODLIFE

• Develop and implement a common vision and strategy road map toface global sports industry challenges for the next years, such asdigitalization, sustainability (low carbon solutions, circular economy),etc.

• Improve SMEs competitiveness and innovation capacity to giveanswer to the main challenges of the Sports sector previouslyidentified.

• Establish alliances and shared projects between clusters and theirSMEs in the different sports sector value chains.

• Improve and strengthen clusters management capacities and skillstowards excellence to provide better services to SMEs.

• Enhance the positioning of clusters as an effective tool for industrycompetitiveness and interregional cooperation and innovation,creating a favourable ecosystem that facilitates new businessopportunities for SMEs.

OBJECTIVES

• INDESCAT (ES)

• Cluster Montagne (FR)

• Clusters Sport&Technology (NL)

• MSE Cluster Ltd. (HU)

• European Platform for Sport Innovation(BE)

PARTNERS

INNO4SPORTS

Inno4Sports places itself in the context of socioeconomic transformations in Europe that open up newdimensions for the capitalisation of sports ecosystems.

The potentials of Sport ecosystems have started tohave been recognized at EU level as drivers forinnovation and growth with a high potential for cross-sectoral spill-overs and interlinkages with varioussocietal and economic fields.

Still, at regional levels, they remain underdeveloped,due to existing inconsistencies and anunderrepresentation of the potentials created bysports innovation within RIS3 and regionaldevelopment programmes.

INNO4SPORTS

To improve the performance of researchbased clusters in the field of the sports, by:

• strengthening their potentials for quadruple helix cooperation;

• creating synergies with smartspecialisation processes.

To address the changes in the societalrole of sports, and use it as a vehicle for economic regional growth.

OBJECTIVES

• Sports and Technology Foundation (NL)• IBV, Association Institute of Biomechanics (ES)• IVACE, Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (ES)• MSE Cluster Ltd. (HU)• University of Debrecen, Institute of Sport Sciences (HU)• Regional Council of Lapland (FI)• Verde Foundation for Innovative Sports Surfaces (PL)• European Platform for Sport Innovation (BE)

PARTNERS

Some examples of studies

• Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2020) “Presidency summary of the discussion from the Informal Videoconference of the EU Ministers of Sport”

• DeLoitte (2020) “Government funding response to COVID-19: A summary of the latest funding initiatives made available for businesses” • DeLoitte (2020) “Understanding the Impact of Covid19 on the sports industries”• Europeactive (2020) Thoughts on Covid-19 “BC versus AC”• Europeactive (2020) “After Corona: How the sector may be different and never be the same again - and why this may not be all bad news”• European Commission (2020) “Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the

European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Coronoravirus Response Using every available euro in every way possible to protect lives and livelihoods”

• European Commission (2020) “Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative”• European Commission (2020) “Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative Plus: New actions to mobilise essential investments and resources”• European Olympic Committee (2020) “EOC unveils results of COVID19 Impact on European Sport” • European Platform for Sport Innovation (2020) “Position Paper on the Impact of the COVID19 crisis on the sport sector”• Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industries (2020) “RESULTS: FESI Survey on COVID-19” • International Labour Organisation (2020) “COVID-19 and advocates: Labour and Human rights in sports, a priority”• International Labour Organisation (2020) “COVID-19 and the world of work: Impact and policy responses” • Li et al. (2020) “The Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic Declaration on Psychological Consequences: A Study on Active Weibo Users”, International

Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (6), 2032.• Parnell, D. et al. (2020) “COVID-19, Networks and Sport”, Journal Managing Sport and Leisure.

WEBINAR CONCLUSION

• Stimulating innovative solutions for short, medium and long term for a healthy activelifestyle (modus: public private alliances and support SME to come up with “new normal” solutions)

• The development of a database for best practices for innovation and business creation in the“new normal”,

• The launch of a thorough European Study on the precise economic and social impact ofCOVID19 on the sport sector

• The need for a combined European overarching lobbying effort “top down and bottom up” tosupport the sport ecosystem, articulated around very simple key messages that everybody canunderstand:

• Collect your feed back via a short additional questionnaire• Selection of possible solutions• Prioritization of these solutions• Timeframe for implementing these solutions• Sharing of responsibilities : who is doing what ?