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In the framework of the Study on the Internal Market barriers’ to sport funding conducted by the consortium formed by Eurostrategies, CDES, AMNYOS and the German Sport Institute of Cologne, the European Commission is organising a conference on 16 February 2010 to give all stakeholders the opportunity to express their views on this issue. The aim of the conference is to present the different financing systems across sports’ disciplines and Member States, discuss the impact of the recent economic and financial crisis on grassroots sports’ financing, identify possible future challenges related to the financing of grassroots sports, and select a number of disciplines and countries to be analysed in more detail in the next phases of the study.

The conference will take take place on Tuesday 16 February in Brussels, venue: Albert Borschette Conference Center - 36, rue Froissart - Brussels

The Commission will not cover any costs related to participation such as travel costs and accommodation.
We hope that you will reserve the date in your planning. You will receive a formal invitation with more details, including registration procedure and the draft agenda, in due course. Please note that, due to the limited capacity of the meeting room, it is recommended to register as soon as possible. We can only accept registrations until 10 February 2010 or sooner if the capacity of the room has been reached. In order to make sure that we have a balanced stakeholder representation we will accept only one participant per organisation.