Dear Friends

• Improving personal health is valued as the principal benefit of sport according to the European citizens.

With more than 70 million European citizens active in sport clubs and a similar amount of people doing sport and physical activity spontaneously, this sector represents a huge movement and a huge market.

The ‘Sport for All’ sector has always been closely linked to the question of personal health. The rapidly growing interest and need for the improvement of health increases the demand for more commitment from the ‘Sport for All’ sector.

At this 2nd European ‘Sport for All’ congress, we would like to present and discuss the sectors resources, facilities, research, programmes – all in all the ‘Sport for All’ produced Social Capital.
We welcome you to present and discuss the challenges and solutions of the ‘Sport for All’ sector.

Morgens Kirkeby, President of ISCA

• The establishment of physical activity programs related to the promotion of health among their participants, has presently become a great challenge for sports organizations to assume. In this sense, numerous organizations have initiated the introduction of these programs in its offering of activities.

A huge number of initiatives and experiences based on this theme have been and are being carried out in Europe. At present, people from early to older ages can all enjoy activity programs adapted to their needs and particularities, designed, given and supervised by specialists in the environment of physical activity and health.

As a result of the international contribution, the movement of sport for all will become stronger and at the same time more representative in the context of sport in general.

Gil Modroño, President of Ubae

• The second European sport for all congress, under its general theme, "Sport and Health; from theory to practice"; intends to generate a forum of debate and analysis for organizations, sport leaders and politicians, linked to the sport for all environment.

The debate presented intends to revolve around the most prominent elements that influence the sports phenomenon. From the analysis of different activities and their conditions of practice; the social impact that these represent in the communities in which they develop, the resources utilized, their administration and management, to finally the development of sports organizations and their adaptation to the demands of the society.

It is very important to know how to divulge from the scientific point of view, those advances in the investigation of new methods and systems that permit the sports organizations to introduce new contents in their activity programs.

Toni Llop, President of CESS