World Summit on Ethics & Leadership in Sports
Ethics in Sports
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1. FC Union Berlin and World Forum for Ethics in Business launch the 1st Ethics in Sports Symposium Berlin
Berlin, 25 August 2015
Are the global sports organisations hiding behind the FIFA governance challenges?
Berlin, 25 September 2015
Der 1. FC Union Berlin und das World Forum for Ethics in Business richten 1. Ethik im Sport Symposium Berlin aus
Berlin, 25. August 2015
Verstecken sich die globalen Sportverbände hinter den Governance-Problemen der FIFA?
Berlin, 25. September 2015
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The Ethics in Sports Symposium Berlin will throw light upon two subjects: On one hand the symposium will elaborate on what business and politics can learn from sports and how value-based leadership can enable sustainable success in business as well as sports. Valuable interactive discussions with top athletes and experts from the world of sports and business will be available.
On the other hand, the symposium will discuss current challenges in the current sports ethics and governance and the dwindling trust in sports’ representatives and institutions. Today’s situation in the global football scenario will be in the center of the debates.
The symposium will also bring into perspective how institutions’ performance, as well as individuals’ in sports and business, can and should be measured in a meaningful way. In doing so, we want to ask, whether success and financial performance are sufficient as evaluation criteria, or in what way the holistic contribution to man and environment has to be considered as well?
16:00 – 16:30h: Registration and networking
16:30 – 16:40h: Inaugural address
16:40 – 16:50h: Opening speech
16:50 – 16:55h: Keynote address
16:55 – 17:05h: Keynote address
17:05 – 18:05h: Panel discussion: Creating sustainable success – what we can learn from sports
Successful leadership as a result brings together diverse groups of people in achieving a common goal. This panel discussion will showcase best practice examples from sports and business and ask the question: what is the secret to sustainable success and what can business and politics learn from sports?
18:05 – 18:20h: Questions and answers
18:20 – 18:45h: Break
18:45 – 19:45h: Panel discussion: Is there a place for sportsmanship and ethics in today’s professional sports scenario? – Challenges on and off the pitch
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that sports or any other activities are enjoyed for their own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics and mutual respect. However, today it seems that the end justifies every mean, hence the question arises: Are success and sportsmanship complimentary or even contradictory?
In recent years, sport organizations have been growing immensely in size and influence; therefore it is crucial that their structure, attitude and culture are aligned with current challenges such as the allocation of events or transfers. But also on the pitch, with the matters of match fixing and doping, there are problems that demand new solution strategies.
This panel will assess the current reality in sports’ governance from different perspectives and suggest possible solutions.
19:45 – 20:00h: Questions and answers
20:00 – 20:20h: Closing and outlook
20:20 – 21:00h: Penalty shoot and reception
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Berlin, 25 September 2015 – In a trailblazing intervention at the famous football stadium An der Alten Försterei, the World Forum for Ethics in Business in partnership with the German football club 1. FC Union Berlin convened for the Ethics in Sports Symposium Berlin on 24th September, taking place for the first time in Germany’s capital.
International stakeholders from sports, business, politics and media not only discussed on current governance issues in sports but also emphasized on the important values sports promotes and the enormous potential sports has to address social problems.
Quoting WFEB’s founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in her welcome address, the president of the Forum, Rajita Kulkarni, reminded the audience of the influence sports has, ‘If every gun in the hand is replaced by a soccer ball at the feet, the world will be a much more healthier, happier and peaceful place.’
‘Sports is necessary for the international community to convey messages where politics cannot’, added Jo Leinen, Member of European Parliament.
1. FC Union Berlin President Dirk Zingler stated how the strong must support the weak. ‘We should be aware of using the integrating power of sports to benefit the society.’
Dr. André Hahn, Member of German Parliament, commended the Köpenick based football club for their dedication and current activities towards supporting the refugees in Berlin.
Participants and speakers mutually agreed that the commercialization in sports threatens to overshadow the values that sports transports. In keynote speeches and panel discussions ways for the protection of the purity and integrity of sports were discussed.
Sylvia Schenk, Chair of the Working Group Sport at Transparency International urged that ‘It is not enough to just proclaim values in sports. We need to live them everyday anew.’ Schenk also commended that the creation of such open discussion platforms is a step forward and a ‘healthy approach’.
The core discussion at the Symposium on the challenges on and off the pitch raised the question whether global sports organizations are actually hiding behind the FIFA’s governance challenges and therefore do not address their own challenges.
The common understanding was that it is easy to point out mistakes in others, however, it is critical to address ones own issues in first place.
The Ethics in Sports Symposium Berlin welcomed 200 participants from 15 countries. Speakers included amongst others the international football coach Christoph Daum, the multiple swimming champion Mark Warnecke, Jürgen Trittin and Matthias Schmidt, Members of German Parliament, FIFA Deputy Head of Communication Alexander Koch, UEFA CSR senior manager Patrick Gasser, DFB Vice- President Eugen Gehlenborg, Florian Bauer, Special Sport Political Journalist at German TV ARD, Wendela Kuper, Chair of the EPAS Governing Board at the Council of Europe and Dr. Mustafa Al-Sayed, Secretary General of the Royal Charity Organization Bahrain.
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