Newsletter 70, 23 September 2008 Sign off newsletter
ISCA General Assembly Registration
Reduced registration ends on 30 September!

The ISCA General Assembly will be hosted by UBAE on 23 October 2008. The host city is beautiful Barcelona in the Catalonian region of Spain. The General Assembly will be from 9am until 5pm. Assembly location is the Museum and Center for Sport Studies at the following address:

 

Museu i Centre d'Estudis de l'Esport Melcior Colet

Carrer Buenos Aires, 56-58, (torre)

08036 Barcelona

 

More information about the General Assembly can be found here.

 

Registration can be made by completing and returning the form found here. 

 

Member organizations are allowed one vote during Assembly matters. However, there is no limit to the number of delegates from each organization!

 

Registration fee is included with your registration to the 2nd European Sport for All Congress. 

 

30 September is the last date for the 200€ registration fee.  All registrations after 30 September will be 250€.
Brazilian Ministry of Sport meets with ISCA presidents and ISCA Latin American chair

ISCA President Mogens Kirkeby, Vice Presidents Elizabeth Paoliello and Herbert Hartmann and Latin American Continental Committee Chairwoman Maria Luiza Souza Dias met with Mr. Julio Filgueira, State Secretary of Sport and Education, and Ms. Rejane Penna Rodrigues, State Secretary of Social Sport.  This meeting took place on 5 September in the Ministry of Sport in Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil.

 

"We had a very open discussion on sport as educational and social tools. This area is one of the priority areas of the Brazilian Ministry of Sport and is important to ISCA.  We share many opinions on this issue with the Ministry of Sport. Based on this positive meeting, we hope to establish a cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Sport and ISCA, containing Brazilian and Latin American perspectives" says Mogens Kirkeby.
Transparency in ISCA
Executive Committe takes the lead - all meeting agendas made public

Effective from the upcoming Executive Committee Meeting in Copenhagen on September 25-28, all Executive Committee Meeting agendas will be made publicly available through the ISCA web site and newsletter preceeding each meeting.

 

"We take this step to send a signal", says ISCA president Mogens Kirkeby ... read more here.

 

See the agenda for the upcoming meeting here and feel free to contact the secretariat for any further information.
SEEYOU Training - For Youth of Balkan Region
European Youth Foundation supports event

25 young persons from the Balkan region are meeting together for the SEEYOU training in Tivat, Montenegro.  Countries represented include:

 

  • Macedonia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia
  • Montenegro
  • Albania
  • Italy
  • Denmark

 

SEEYOU training is the recommendation of sport leaders of the region and fits into the long-term ISCA plans by continuing the development work of Balkan youth, sport and culture organizations. This training also fulfils one of the primary functions of ISCA, to match member organizations together for cross-border exchanges and support of activities.

 

SEEYOU has received financial support from the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. The Sports Union of Slovenia is also a supporting partner. The local cooperating partner is Montenegro Sport for All Association.

 
Sonny Jacobsen Joins ISCA staff as Intern

ISCA welcomes Sonny Jacobsen to our Copenhagen Secretariat where he will be an intern for the next 6 months.  Sonny will participate in several areas of Secretariat work while having a focus on the theme "sport and development".  ISCA has been developing its profile in this important area by implementing activities (Democratic Development Through Grassroot Sport in South East Europe) that focus on Sport and Development.  ISCA was also an important contributor to the 2005 UN Year of Sport for Development and Peace.  ISCA is currently a steering group member for the International Platform on Sport and Development (www.sportanddev.org). 

 

Sonny serves as part-time coordinator of the Danish Network of Sport and Development (NSD).  He is also an active basketball player and trainer in his free time.

 

We look forward to working with Sonny as we come closer to the Sport and Development sector.
Nela Kralova and Jiri Panek Join ISCA Staff as Volunteers

Nela Kralova and Jiri Panek have joined the ISCA office as full-time volunteers and will work at the Copenhagen Secretariat over the next ten months.  The European Voluntary Service (EVS) makes it possible for young persons to have international voluntary experiences with host organizations such as ISCA.

 

Nela and Jiri will participate in a variety of Secretariat tasks while focusing on implementation of ISCA's International Youth Leader Education (IYLE) programme.  One of their specific tasks will be to assist with coordination of the European Youth and Sport Forum 2009 which will likely take place in Czech Republic during the Czech hosted EU Presidency.

 

Nela and Jiri come from Czech Republic where Nela has been active with the Czech Scout Association and Jiri has been active with ISCA member SOKOL.    

 

 



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