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Knowledge Creates Participation – Participation in Science: Integration and Sport – Conference on 18 June 2012 in Berlin

Description of the conference

The conference links current scientific findings and practical experience with the opportunities and limits of civic integration and participation through sport, in particular sports clubs. In this context, the conference pursues the following objectives:

  • Discussion and contentrelated foundation of the connection between participation, integration and sport.
  • Identification of successful approaches in practical club work
  • Strategic further development of integration activities in sports
  • Specification of tasks by various players in government, civic society and market
  • Identification of (new) cooperation partners and cooperation relations, and
  • Specification of practice and research needs
Co-operation partner of the conference: Department of Sport Sociology at the Institute of Sport Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, Landessportbund Nordrhein-Westfalen, Stiftung Mercator, Heinz-Nixdorf-Stiftung, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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Date of the conference:  18/06/2012