The Team
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The European Federation for Company Sport (EFCS) is a voluntary non-profit organisation founded in 1962. Based in Paris, it counts 36 affiliated national company sport federations. These national federations are leading associations in their respective countries for organisinge company-sport-related activities. The majority of these federations’ members are companies that differ in size, form and activity.
EFCS’s key figures: 17 million athletes, 150.000 clubs related to company sport, 41.000 companies, 900 employees in national federations, 50 sport disciplines, ranging from soccer, volleyball and golf to bridge, mountain biking, petanque and sailing, 21 summer company sport games since 1977 (on average, 7.000 participants, 30 disciplines, 1.000 staff, employees and volunteers), and 15 winter company sport games since 1990 (on average, 500 participants, 7 disciplines, 100 staff, employees and volunteers).
The EFCS’ main objective is to promote and develop sport practice in the professional environment across Europe. Company sport means all types of sport and physical activities that can be organised by a company and in its premises. Here, the term company refers to the workplace, so that administrations and local authorities can be identified as such. The federation focuses on values and topics like health and well-being enhancement, togetherness, non-discrimination, environmental awareness, diversity and gender equality, social inclusion and relationships.
The European Network for Innovation and Knowledge (EUNIK) is a foundation based in the Netherlands, but its scope is international. EUNIK was created by higher education and R&D experts, with more than 15 years of experience working at a global level.
EUNIK’s team has worked extensively with governmental bodies, businesses, NGOs and universities. Thus, the team knows how to work with different collaborators and understands the goals and wishes of any kind of company or business. With expertise in e-learning, digital change management and sport, the organisation brings value to the projects it is involved in both on the national and international scale.
EVALEO is a non-profit association based in Switzerland and founded in 2011. Our goal is to inspire and enable people to adopt an active, healthy and fulfilling lifestyle. To achieve this, we carry out a mission of education, development and active promotion of Well-being and Sustainable Health.
We are a worldwide alliance and a network of experts, professionals and partners active in the field, federated around a common vision of Wellbeing and Sustainable Health and through the implementation of programmes and interventions aimed at generating positive long-term impacts.
Our approach considers how an individual can act to develop an active, healthy and fulfilling lifestyle, and how the community can act to create supportive environments for it. Aware of the complexity of the issues and challenges facing our societies, we aim to co-create spaces (places and moments that become an oasis) that allow everyone to live well-being and sustainable health on a daily basis.
The Evaleo alliance and network acts as a real interface between the needs identified among populations and the stakeholders. We operate primarily in the area of governance for Well-being and Sustainable Health, and in particular in multi-partner and multi-sectoral approaches at the level of governments, regions, cities and organisations.
Founded in 1960, FESI, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, is a unique pre-competitive platform representing the interests of the sporting goods industry in Europe, putting forward its members’ priorities and promoting initiatives that benefit the sector, EU citizens and the society as a whole. FESI represents the interests of approximately 1.800 sporting goods manufacturers (85% of the European market) through its National Sporting Goods Industry Federations and its directly affiliated member companies. 70-75% of FESI’s members are Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. In total, the European Sporting Goods Industry employs over 700.000 EU citizens and has an annual turnover of some 81 billion euro.
Sport and Citizenship is the leading European think tank in the field of sport. Created in 2007 after the publication of the White Paper on sport, it aims at supporting the development of the European dimension of sport and is dedicated to the study of European public policies in the field of sport, and the promotion of sport’s societal impact. Sport and Citizenship has been committed since its very beginning to the launch of a European civic dialogue in the field of sport thanks to multidisciplinary and transverse reflections aimed at benifitting European sport stakeholders.
Issues and ideas are then brought to the attention of policy makers, so that such matters can be understood and addressed at a European level. As such, it is recognised as a privileged interlocutor by the European institutions and the sport movement and works in close cooperation with a wide range of sport organisations (European leagues and federations, national associations, NGOs, sponsors, public institutions).
Stichting NLOM! The foundation Nederland Onderneemt Maatschappelijk! initiates and indicates implementation of collaborative projects in the field of corporate social responsibility. We connect projects and organisations around sustainable, vital and inclusive companies. Together we can make the difference for society.
University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is the largest university in Denmark and one of the most important institution for higher education in Scandinavia.
The university has around 23.500 undergraduate 17.000 postgraduate and 3.000 doctoral students and more than 9.000 employees. The university has four campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the headquarters in central Copenhagen. It has 6 faculties and numerous departments.
The World Federation for Company Sport (WFCS) is a voluntary non-profit organisation gathering national company sport or other federations addressing and offering solutions for company sport from all continents.
These national federations are benchmark associations in their own countries in the organisation of activities related to company sport. Most of these federations’ members are companies that differ in their size, form, and activity. Company sport covers all types of sport and physical activities that can be organised by and within a company.
