To pursue this aim Sport4Impact Forum cooperates with local actors in order to scale-up existing intervention programs and co-design/launch new ones.

Sport4Impact Forum is based upon at least the following "pillars":

• It aims at promoting a virtuous circle of exchanges between the research/academic community and policy decision makers (at both international and national domestic level) with the scope of having more "science-based policies";
• It promotes the use of sport as a strategic tool for Social Change to contribute to the achievement of the 16 UN SDGs, this through the 17th Goal (Multistakeholder approach/PPPs). Some specific focuses such as social inclusion, sport integrity, skills, local development, innovation have been developed and other ones may be included;
• Possibly its most distinctive element is the strong goal of designing and launching "Local Pilot Areas" (at least one territory for each UN Member State indicatively) to test/implement at ground level the international/national Conventions, Resolutions, Laws, Guide Lines, Plans, Charters, Points of Consensus, Toolkits, Handbooks on sport policies through a well balanced combination of "Bottom Up" and "Top Down" approaches. This includes the use of Indicators for measuring their advancements: on this regard it is referred primarily to the documents elaborated by Commonwealth within Action II of UNESCO KAP.
• It is "intervention programs oriented" with the goal of promoting in local territories "coherent preliminary practices" ready to be "scaled up" through local/national/ international funding: hence the Forum is mainly a "Community of Practitioners" dialoguing with academic experts, public bodies, sport bodies, private sector, funding entities. Eight EC (European Commission) co-funded international programmes since 2013 are a qualifying track-record of conducted and ongoing activities co-designed and executed by founders ASAG, IIISSS and Territoria.

On this background Sport4Impact Forum promotes the adoption and use of a simplified methodology derived from the main international guidelines, articulated in six components symbolized by the logo of the forum, the drawing of the six athletes at starting blocks aiming at a common goal:

• LOCAL PILOT AREAS
• SCIENCE BASED PROGRAMS
• PRIVATE PUBLIC METHODOLOGIES
• OUTCOME EVALUATION TOOLS
• POLICY COHERENCE
• SPECIALIZED COMPETENCIES

SECTOR ON INTERVENTIONS

Through its founders and promoters asag, iiisss and territoria sport4impact forum has matured a qualified trackrecord in the field of sport as a vehicle for social intervention programs.

Projects Trackrecord and Background.

ASAG:

• asag.unicatt.it
• asag.unicatt.it/asag-sport
• asag.unicatt.it/asag-master-sport-e-intervento-psicosociale

IIISSS/Territoria:

• IIISSS: www.iiisss.it

Main initiatives, projects and programs designed and conducted by promoters:

• European Seminar, Presidency of the Council of the European Union: www.anti-match-fixing-formula.eu
• AMMF: www.anti-match-fixing-formula.eu
• Sport Pulito Italia: www.sportpulitoitalia.it
• AMATT: www.amatt.eu
• TPREG: www.tpreg-training.eu
• Stop Match Fixing Italia: www.stop-match-fixing-italia.org
• DRAWS: website soon to be released
• SKILLSbySPORT4MED: website soon to be released

Scope of the Conferences is to offer to the community of practitioners, operators, public bodies and governmental offcials, sport organizations and private companies the opportunity to enhance and strengthen their know-how, networking, partnerships to projects and intervention programs, visibility.

2023

The Third International Conference has taken place in Milan on March 2023:
conference2023.sport4impact.net
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2021

The Second International Conference has taken place by remote modality - due to COVID restrictions between April and May 2021:

conference2021.sport4impact.net

2018

The First International Conference has taken place in Milan on January 2018:
conference2018.sport4impact.net

• IIISSS: www.iiisss.it
• ITALIAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE STUDY SPORT SOCIETY
• ASAG: asag.unicatt.it
• HIGH SCHOOL ON PSYCHOLOGY AGOSTINO GEMELLI - SACRED HEART CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
• TERRITORIA POLICY & RESEARCH: www.territoria.com
• CENTRE FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PRIVATE PUBLIC METHODOLOGIES

The First International Conference has taken place with the official support of UNESCO and the patronage of the Italian Government Office for Sport and the Municipality of Milan.
The patronages for the Second and Third International Conferences are currently being defined.

I-STAR Institute for Sport and Technology University of Trento supports the Conference:

• projects.unitn.it/istar/en/

Sport4Impact Forum interacts and cooperates with the United Nations system in order to promote the knowledge and implementation of its Conventions and Resolutions, and more specifically with:

• UNESCO www.unesco.org
• UNODC www.unodc.org
• ILO www.ilo.org
• DESA www.un.org/development/desa/en/

Sport4Impact operates in strict coordination with sport bodies, in particular with:

• GAISF: gaisf.sport

In Italy Sport4Impact cooperates with:

• UNISPORT ITALIA www.unisport-italia.it

Sport4Impact is currently in the process of assessing possible formal cooperations with:

• SPORTANDDEV: www.sportanddev.org
• SPORT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE NETWORK: www.sscn.co.za
• EVALEO - ACTIVE CITIES NETWORK: activewellbeing.org
• EPSI: epsi.eu

Through IIISSS Sport4Impact cooperates with:

• ENAS: www.enas-sport.net
• FITEQ: www.fiteq.org
• EUROSAF: eurosaf.org

Sport4Impact operates to promote and maximize synergies among all actors involved in activities aimed at social change through sport by facilitating contacts, informations, know-how so that each organization may better pursue its own scopes within a framework of policy coherence and specific roles related to specialized know-how.
In this context informal and formal cooperation agreements are welcomed.

Steering Committee:
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Technical Committees:
Currently under definition

An organic calendar service is currently being designed in coordination with UNOG www.unog.ch and other international organizations and actors.

For the following topics it’s suggested to refer to:

• The Commonwealth Sport: thecommonwealth.org/sport-development-and-peace
• Sport and Development: www.sportanddev.org
• Sport and Peace: www.peace-sport.org
• Sport and Physical Education: www.icsspe.org
• Social Role of Sport: www.tafisa.org + savethedream.org
• Well-being: activewellbeing.org
• Sport and Francophonie: afcno.org/francophonie-sportive

Sport, Technology, Innovation:

• Hype: www.hypesportsinnovation.com
• EPSI: epsi.eu (House of Sport, Brussels)

Sport integrity:

• Play The Game Forum: playthegame.org
• SIGA: siga-sport.com
• Centre for Human Rights and Sport, Geneva: www.sporthumanrights.org
• Child Trafficking in Sport: mission89.org

Athletes Representation:

• EU Athletes: euathletes.org
• FIFPRO: fifpro.org
• World Players Association: www.uniglobalunion.org/sectors/worldplayers

Other links are currently under assessment and elaboration.

News from the Sport4Impact Forum:
To be released.

Program

Projects

Local Pilot Area

Access to Reserved Area of Sport4Impact Community:

• link

Stop Crimes in Transfer of Athletes (S.C.I.T.A.) is an Erasmus+ Sport Collaborative Partnership funded by the European Union, that for the first time addresses crimes in athlete transfers through a systemic European approach. It targets economic crimes like corruption and money laundering, plus links to human trafficking (including minors), building on sport integrity challenges such as match-fixing and doping.

The project’s core purpose is to fill a critical gap: athlete transfer systems remain unaddressed by sport bodies and law enforcement. S.C.I.T.A. delivers deeper risk knowledge via data collection, prevention guidelines for EU sport clubs, policy recommendations for authorities and LEAs, widespread awareness raising, and a permanent EU Contact Group uniting state delegates, sport bodies and experts.

This effort unites a strong four-partner consortium across Italy, Romania, Slovenia and Greece:

• Istituto Internazionale Italiano Studi Sport Società (IIISSS) (Italy), the coordinator, leads project management, data collection, output supervision and dissemination. As a top sport integrity think tank, it brings UN resolutions and G20 principles expertise.
• Anticorruption General Directorate (AGD) (Romania), a public anti-corruption body, handles data collection, policy papers/recommendations and dissemination.
• Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos (Olympiacos SFP) (Greece), a major sport club, contributes to data collection, sport club guidelines and dissemination.
• Ženski Nogometni Klub Radomlje (ZNK Radomlje) (Slovenia), a women’s football club, supports data collection, guidelines and dissemination.

Key activities include data collection for a comprehensive report, workshops to develop prevention guidelines for clubs and policy tools for LEAs, a final hybrid seminar in Bucharest, and an online platform for the ongoing Contact Group.

S.C.I.T.A. equips sport clubs and authorities with practical tools for transparent, ethical transfers—ready for every partner website.

Project funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).  Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them

Steering Committee:
steeringcommittee@sport4impact.net

Communication: www.res-public.associates

Institutional Relations, Media Relations and Project Fund Raising:
Rossella Pera rossella.pera@res-public
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