Permanent Secretariat

Tel: +34 93 553 89 58

sportcountries@gencat.cat

© Generalitat de Catalunya 2008

• What is a Sport Country?
  Ignasi Doñate, Lawyer specialised in Sports Law. Catalonia.
• Background to the Concept of Sport Country.
  JJavier Ostos, FINA Honorary President. Mexico.
• Nation-state crisis and the identity reorientation of sports loyalties.
  Ramon Llopis, Valencia University. Valencia.
• Brazilian cultural diversity and the indigenous games.
  Katia Rubio, University of Sao Paolo. Brazil.

• Sports policies: the Case of Flanders.
  André Van Lierde, Director of BLOSO. Flanders.
• The Economy of Sport.
  José Ramón Garai, Director of Sport, Basque Autonomous Government. Euskadi.
• Current Principales in the Promotion of an Active Life.
  Diane Lemay, National Co-ordinator, Department of Sports and Physical Activity, Quebec Government. Quebec.
• Sport federations in Flanders and their "Belgian" situation.
  Dirk Van Esser, President of the Flemish Sport Federation. Flanders.
• Conditions for development of sport in Slovakia after transformation of society.
  Jela Labudova, Slovak Union of Physical Education, Sport and Recreation. Slovakia.
• Sport for individuals with different kinks of disabilities.
  Rosó Cangrós, Catalan Federation of Cerebral Palsy. Catalonia.
• Technicisation in the History of the Languedoc Jousts: A Process in Service of a Territorialised Space and a Local Collective Identity.
  Pruneau, University of Antilles Guyana-Guadeloupe.Guadeloupe.
• Mother Nature and the Nature of the Practices.
  Pierre-Olaf Schut, CRIS.France.

• Quebec's institutional presence on the international sports scene: the Francophone Games experience.
  Denis Paquet, Sports advisor for the DSAP. Quebec.
• Integration of Sport Countries Federations with International Federations.
  Jean-Louis Dupont. Lawyer specialised in European Law. Belgium.
• Advantages of the Participation of Sport Countries in the International Sports System.
  Pierre Thibault, General Director of Sportcom. Quebec.
• Towards the full participation of sport countries in the global sports and Olympic arenas.
  Salvador Boluda, University of Tokyo. Japan.
• Sport in Kosova: the contribution of sport to the international projection of a country.
  Besim Hasani, President of the Kosova Olympic Committee.
• Towards a new structural model for competitive sport at the international level.
  Andreu CAMPS POVILL, Professor of Sport Management and Legislation, INEFC - Lleida. Catalonia.

• International Co-operation between Olympic Training Centres.
  Viladrich, Director del Centre d'Alt Rendiment. Catalunya.