Election of ISCA Europe Steering Group

At the General Assembly the European ISCA members shall elect an ISCA Europe Steering Group. General Assembly shall elect:

• A Chair of ISCA Europe
• Two Steering Group members of ISCA Europe

 

The ISCA Europe Steering is repsonsible for implementing the 'sport for all' political activities for the coming year.

 

The ISCA Europe Steering will serve until ISCA General Assembly 2010, where the future organisational structure of ISCA Europe will be decided by the European ISCA Members.

Nomination of ISCA Europe Chair Mr Filippo Fossati, President of UISP, Italy

Mr Filippo Fossati is nominated by Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti (UISP), Italy. Filippo Fossati is president of UISP and offer to serve as chair of ISCA Europe.

 

Filippo Fossati, 49 years old, born in Florence, President of UISP since 2005 and reconfirmed on 2009.
Since 2002 he is Regional Deputy of Tuscany and Secretary of the Health Commission.
During his career he had various institutional office, among all he was Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Scandicci till the April of 2000, and Counsellor Secretary for the Commission Relationship between Tuscany and European Union.

 

 

See also interview with Filippo Fossati at : http://isca-web.org/english/leaders/presidenttopresident/

 

Nomination to Steering Group member Mr Benny Andreasen, DGI, Denmark

Danish Gymnastics and Sport Association (DGI) nominates Mr Benny Andreasen to ISCA Europe Steering Group. Benny Andreasen has been member of DGI board since 1997. He is chairman of the DGI badminton committee and with this position he has played a central role in establishing the ISCA Badminton Network.
Benny is educated school teacher and has undtil his retirement in 2009 been headmaster of a combined primary and secondary public school.

 

We believe, that Benny Andreasen can be valuable for implementation of the ISCA Europe activities. - Kindest regards from DGI board

 

Nomination to Steering Group member Milan Hosta, SUS, Slovenia

Dr. Milan Hosta, 36, is well recognized sport expert in Slovenia, pioneering the new wave of young leaders who have the courage to face the challenges of sustainable development of sport from the socio-ecological perspective.
He has proved to be a good manager of new ideas by leading an Asthma and Sport Organization for over a decade now, combining sport and health interests on national level. His knowledge of ethics has been disseminated over Slovenia and internationally through the work within Institute of Fair Play and Tolerance in Sport, which was established on his initiative. He spent 8 years as a professor of philosophy of sport at Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, where he was in charge of international office as well. He has established a large international social network, and has been invited to many international seminars and conferences as an excellent speaker and motivator for social change. He is elected president of expert council of Sports Union of Slovenia.

The advocacy and promotion of Physical Education, Sport and Health enhancing physical activity is where the synergy of his interests flourishes best. With the knowledge of philosophy he has access to ideological concerns, personal, social, and macroeconomic values and hidden agendas behind actions expressing the public policy; with experiences in project management in the field of health and sport he is aware of the importance of inter-departmental communications and cooperation on national and international level; and with the interest in efficient EU policy we strongly believe that his skills and knowledge could be of great support to ISCA EUROPE.   

His ideas on ISCA Europe:
-    to become a pan-European avant-garde movement in physical activity, festivity and sport for all;
-    establish the platform to advocate for the whole picture of physical culture as proposed by H. Eichberg (to complement the achievement oriented competitive sport organized under IOC);
-    to analyze, evaluate, report, lobby and advise upon the international and national sport documents, laws and other significant political interventions in physical activity, festivity and sport for all;
-    to take care for ethnocentric physical culture, and folks games by providing support to regional bodies, programmes and projects;
-    to provide trainings in good governance and democratic policy for sport bodies;
-    to become a relevant stakeholder in European sport policy decision process;
-    to network with other European organizations in order to enhance and multiply the aims of ISCA.
Miro Ukmar, president of Sports Union of Slovenia

Nomination to Steering Group member Mr Jean Claude Besnard, UFOLEP, France

Jean Claude Besnard is born 19 October 1944.His profession has been primary school teacher (retired).

Working for UFOLEP (at the county and national levels) from 1974 to 1989. Member of the national board of UFOLEP since 1985. Member of the national committee of UFOLEP for international activities since 1992. Chairman of this committee since 2004.
Member of the ISCA European Continental Committee 2004-2008. Involved in the ISCA networks “active seniors” and “sport and environment”

 

Ideas about the new ISCA European network
The ISCA Europe has to:
- Be a policy body close connected with the ISCA Ex-co
- Look at the development of ISCA in Europe
- Support the European programs, networks and workshops
- Create vocations to develop projects and to set up the structures necessary for their achievement
- Be vigilant at the coherence and coordination between the networks in charge of the development of the various sectors of actions or activities