1. FC Union Berlin receives Ethics in Sports Award 2022 from WFEB

To recognize outstanding sustainable contributions in the sports arena and beyond, the World Forum for Ethics in Business since 2014 honors outstanding organizations and individuals with the Ethics in Sports Award. The 2022 Ethics in Sports Award in the category ‘Outstanding Organization’ was conferred upon Germany’s first league soccer club 1. FC Union Berlin e.V.

Brussels, 1 November 2022 – In a moving ceremony during the 6th World Summit on Ethics & Leadership in Sports from 13-14 October 2022 in Bangalore, India, the current Bundesliga front-runner 1. FC Union Berlin was announced as winner of the Ethics in Sports Award in the category ‘Outstanding Organization’

Addressing the audience via video message upon announcement of the Award, 1. FC Union Berlin‘s President Dirk Zingler said: ‘To be honored with the Ethics in Sports Award for ‚Outstanding Organization‘ fills us with pride and gratitude. 1. FC Union Berlin and the many people who shape it have always seen football as being a part of society that has the power to be effective far beyond the borders of sport. I accept this Award with great pride for all those committed to serving the social needs of people in and around our club.’

By conferring the Award for “Outstanding Organization” to 1. FC Union Berlin, the Board of Directors of the World Forum for Ethics in Business (WFEB) recognized in particular 1. FC Union Berlin’s deeply-rooted social responsibility and commitment to address social issues through their various initiatives, which, among others, use sport as a tool in the education and development of the young generation and teach important values such as respect, tolerance and teamwork. Through 1. FC Union Berlin’s achievements and value-driven initiatives, the organization serve as a role model not only for the sport, but for the community at large. 1. FC Union Berlin has impressively shown that sporting success and social responsibility can go hand in hand, and, in fact, that a leadership-style based on human values and ethics are the pillar for sustainable success.

About the Award
The Ethics in Sports Award stems from the annual Ethics in Business Award conferred by the World Forum for Ethics in Business to honor individuals and companies that have demonstrated the importance of human values and ethics in life and in the business arena. The Award was instituted in 2006, and is presented annually at the International Leadership Symposium organized by the World Forum for Ethics in Business at the European Parliament. 18 winners have received this award over the past years.

In 2014, for the first time, WFEB recognized outstanding sustainable contributions in the sports arena and once again in 2016, 2018 and 2019. The Ethics in Sports Award recognizes an organization and / or individual that have been a leading role model in radiating and embodying ethical behavior in life and in the sports area. The recipients have inspired people to observe and practice human values, and to give equal, if not greater importance, to human values vis-à-vis success in sports. Winners are selected by the Board of Directors of the WFEB.

About the 6th World Summit on Ethics & Leadership in Sports
The 6th World Summit on Ethics & Leadership in Sports was held from 13-14 October 2022 in Bangalore, India and welcomed more than 400 delegates from 45 countries to seek a roadmap for protecting the original values of sports, and to unite people through sports in a post-pandemic world riddled by conflict, economic crisis and mental health issues.

The Summit was organized by the World Forum for Ethics in Business (WFEB), a Brussels-based global NGO with special consultative status at the United Nations’ ECOSOC, in partnership with Dr. Rau Foundation, and is a continuation of WFEB’s dedicated Ethics in Sports conference series. Earlier summits were held in collaboration with institutions such as FIFA, FC Union Berlin, Anti-Doping Norway and FairSport.

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“Ask the questions that nobody wants to hear”

– Press release –

The 2nd edition of the Anti-Doping in Sports Conference on 4 June 2019 in Oslo challenged athletes, sports federations, sponsors and broadcasters alike to stand in for a clean and ethical sports by not shying away from the truth and asking uncomfortable, challenging questions.

Oslo, 5 June 2019 – Transparency, Trust and Accountability – these were the keywords that over-echoed the proceedings of the 2nd Anti-Doping in Sports Conference held on 4 June 2019 in Oslo. Organized by the World Forum for Ethics in Business (WFEB) in partnership with Anti-Doping Norway and FairSport for the second year in a row, the conference focused on the importance of placing athletes more at the center of the development of anti-doping work. In addition, speakers pointed out why the media are important contributors to the fight against doping and how sponsors can and should impose sport on anti-doping.

‘Sports unite people across the continents and it is important to keep it clean, said WFEB founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in his keynote address. ‘On one hand, we condemn people who are in this world who are in doping and on the other hand, there are those that encourage it. We need to identify those who supply doping. And also athletes who are trapped in this – they need help and not condemnation. They need compassion’, he added.

‘It is our responsibility to create a world with competition with compassion, a competition with a sense of responsibilities, a competition with values’ he urged the audience.

Giving a voice to the athletes, the panel discussion with international sports stars not only highlighted the importance of

performance support but moreover the importance of mental health support.

‘Performance and mental support should go hand in hand’, urged Bree Schaff, Skeleton and Bobsleigh racer from the United States when discussing a question from the audience on the importance of mental health and psychological support for athletes.

‘The pressure from fans, sponsors, media on us athletes is too big’, added Petr Koukal, Olympic Badminton Athlete from Czech Republic and a member of the WADA Athlete Committee. ‘We should get back to the roots of sports’, he continued.

The proceedings also discussed the amount of money circulating in sports and that sports is drifting away from its pure, original purpose.

About 200 people from 27 countries participated at the event that was themed ”

Athletes, Sports, Sponsors and Broadcasters – A cooperation for clean and ethical sports”. The conference was inaugurated by Oslo’s Vice Mayor Kamzy Gunaratnam.

The conference proceedings also saw the conferment of the WFEB Ethics in Sports Award 2019, an award that recognizes an outstanding organization and / or individual that have been a leading role model in radiating and embodying ethical behaviour in life and in the sports arena. David Walsh, Chief Sports Writer of the Sunday Times and Author received the prize this year.

“We only want to watch something that makes us feel good. A story like Lance Armstrong was so brilliant. He came through cancer and came back on the top of sports and people think ‚this brings us hope’.. It was simply doing my job’ said David Walsh in his speech’. He was a key journalist in uncovering the doping system around Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service Cycling Team and continues promoting sportsmanship and good governance in sports through his work.

Calling for shared responsibility in his closing remarks, Anders Solheim, CEO of Anti-Doping urged that “We want you all to be part of the team for a pure sport – and I ask everyone to think about what the individual of you can do to ensure a clean and ethical sport. Sport has its own ability to gather – and now we have to gather ourselves to protect a clean sport. Change can be demanding, but we need change – and we must use the opportunity now. Speak out, keep your eyes up, ask questions, be critical, challenge.’

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For the past 16 years, the WFEB has convened in worldwide conference and since 2006 annually at the European Parliament in Brussels to advocate and act towards ethics and good governance. The Anti-Doping in Sports conference is a continuation of WFEB’s conference series on ‘ethics in sports’. Earlier editions were held at the FIFA headquarters (2014, 2016) and at the stadium of Germany’s soccer club Union Berlin (2015). WFEB was founded in 2010 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. For further information visit www.wfeb.org.

David Howman conferred with Ethics in Sports Award 2018 by WFEB

The former WADA Director General and current Chair of the Athletics Integrity Unit was awarded by the World Forum for Ethics in Business for his longtime service to the sport and for his fight against doping and corruption in sports during the Anti-Doping Conference in Oslo

Oslo, 26 June 2018 – Global experts in the anti-doping world met yesterday during the ‘Anti-Doping in Sports Conference’ in Oslo to define alternative solutions to protect clean sports and athletes.
While the world media is discussing whether FIFA was aware of the doping cover-ups in Russian football over the past 18 months, the World Forum for Ethics in Business (WFEB), Anti-Doping Norway and Fairsport invited global leaders to this heated debate. More than 250 high-level participants from around the world argued about the responsibility of the different federations and who is to blame for this crisis and contradictions in jurisdiction. With top athletes still cheating, there is a need for accountability and integrity in sport from the grass roots to Olympic level.

This multi-stakeholder conference not only addressed governance issues in sports but also celebrated role models by announcing the winner of the 2018 Ethics in Sports Award.

The Ethics in Sports Award in the category ‘Outstanding Individual’ was conferred upon David Howman, Chair, Athletics Integrity Unit, for his longtime service to the sport and for his battle against doping and corruption in sports.

‘It is a great honor for me to be awarded this prestigious honor from a body that has done a huge work on ethics in life – from business to sports and in between’, David Howman said after conferment of the Award by World Forum for Ethics in Business founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. ‘I am a great believer that sport is a mirror to society and that what you are doing in the Forum is moving from the society or business to sport; that is effective in your messaging and I applaud that’, he added.

The Ethics in Sports Award stems from the annual Ethics in Business Award conferred by the World Forum for Ethics in Business (WFEB) to honor individuals and companies that have demonstrated the importance of human values and ethics in life and in the business arena. The Award was instituted in 2006, and is presented annually at the International Leadership Symposium organized by the World Forum for Ethics in Business at the European Parliament. 18 winners have received this award over the past years. In 2014, for the first time, WFEB recognized outstanding sustainable contributions in the sports arena and once again in 2016. The Ethics in Sports Award recognizes an organization an / or individual that have been a leading role model in radiating and embodying ethical behavior in life and in the sports area. The recipients have inspired people to observe and practice human values, and to give equal, if not greater importance, to human values vis-à-vis success in sports. Winners are selected by the Board of Directors of the WFEB.

At a time when the world of sports is facing increasingly large governance challenges and has moved far away from its original objective, a focus on true sportsmanship and absolute adherence to the rules of the game on and off the pitch were at the forefront of the agenda at the Anti-Doping in Sports conference in Oslo.

Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg opened the conference by saying: ‘Sports plays a vital role in people’s lives. Sports bring us together and are a quality of life. We are disappointed when athletes cheat. We need to stand together, united to fight for clean sports. I thank the World Forum for Ethics in Business, Anti-Doping Norway and FairSport for organising this event, she added. This is about the values we want our children to live up to and it’s not about cheating but about fair competition.’’

Adding to this in his keynote address, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the World Forum for Ethics in Business and global peace ambassador who travelled all the way from India to Oslo emphasized that ‘For a while commerce has been attached to sports – it has been associated with sports but it should just be the frame of a picture. If commerce gets the bigger picture, match-fixing starts, erosion of ethics, either in business, politics and sports starts’, he added. ‘The goal is not sports if it becomes about business. We need to create awareness that winning is not the goal but playing the game with values is important. We need to inspire our young people to live s stress-free and happy life so that they can become role-models for the coming generations.’

WADA Vice President Linda Hofstad Helleland called for a new roadmap of trust which is based on common values and athletes’ voices as guide and further suggested a review of the current anti-doping system with independence and transparency at the core.

Speaking on the occasion, Hajo Seppelt, a German journalist whose investigations exposed Russian state-sponsored doping in high-level sports urged that ‘It is becoming increasingly clear that the fight against doping must be taken out of the hands of the sport. The classic conflict of interest between promoters of sport and those who supervise sports is obvious. It cannot be that the controllers control themselves.’

The Anti-Doping in Sports conference was organized by the World Forum for Ethics in Business in partnership with Anti-Doping Norway and FairSport. For the past 15 years, the WFEB has convened in worldwide conference and since 2006 annually at the European Parliament in Brussels to advocate and act towards ethics and good governance. The Anti-Doping in Sports conference is a continuation of WFEB’s conference series on ‘ethics in sports’. Earlier editions were held at the FIFA headquarters (2014, 2016) and at the stadium of Germany’s soccer club Union Berlin (2015). WFEB was founded in 2010 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Contact
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Tel: +49 (0) 151 43101428
Email: press(at)wfeb.org
www.wfeb.org
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The World Forum for Ethics in Business is a registered public interest foundation based in Belgium (N° 822.216.342). The mandate of the Forum includes all manners of pursuing and establishing the indispensable ethical foundations of business in a globalized world. Providing a platform for the promotion and defense of ethical approaches to business enterprise and corporate governance and facilitating global dialogue and fostering cooperation among the private sector, the academic world, government agencies, international organizations, the media, spiritual as well as secular communities and all other stakeholders are among the organization’s main objectives. The World Forum for Ethics in Business is governed by its President Rajita Kulkarni and its Board Members Abha Joshi-Ghani, Acting Vice-President, Leadership, Learning and Innovation, The World Bank; Jo Leinen, Member of European Parliament, Nirj Deva, Member of European Parliament; Madhu Rao, Former Chairman Shangri-La Hotels; Michael Steiner, German Ambassador (ret.), Roland Glaser, Former CEO Minerva Schools and Ram Lakhina, Chairman of The Netherlands India Chamber of Commerce and Trade. For further information visit www.wfeb.org.

Global experts met during Anti-Doping in Sports Conference in Oslo

Speaking up for anti-doping.

Global experts in the anti-doping world met on 25 June 2018 during the ‘Anti-Doping in Sports Conference’ in Oslo seeking for alternatives and valuable inputs to protect clean sports and athletes

Oslo, 25 June 2018 – While the world media is discussing whether FIFA was aware of the doping cover-ups in Russian football over the past 18 months, the World Forum for Ethics in Business (WFEB), Anti-Doping Norway and Fairsport convened the international ‘Anti-Doping in Sports’ Conference today in Oslo.

In a heated debate more than 250 high-level participants from around the world argued about the responsibility of the different federations and who is to blame for this crisis and contradictions in jurisdiction.

This multi-stakeholder conference not only addressed governance issues in sports but also celebrated role models by announcing the winner of the 2018 Ethics in Sports Award.

‘It was a great honor and a big shock for me to be awarded this prestigious honor from a body that has done a huge work on ethics in life – from business to sport and in between’, David Howman said after receipt of the Award. ‘I am a great believer that sport is a mirror to society and that what you are doing in the Forum is moving from the society or business to sport; that is effective in your messaging and I applaud that.’

With top athletes still cheating, there is a need for accountability and integrity in sport from the grass roots to Olympic level.

This conference not only tackled the rigorous testing and investigation that is required for instilling greater anti-doping measures, but gave an in depth view on the human side of sportsmanship and team playing without the aggression to win but for the true passion of the sport.

Contact
WFEB Press Office
Tel: +49 (0) 151 43101428
Email: press@wfeb.org
www.wfeb.org
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The ongoing doping scandal and overall pressing governance challenges in sports to highlight the agenda in what is expected to be a heated debate to preserve the original values of sports.

Innovation 4.0: Shaping a humane fourth digital revolution

We are global, we are fast, we are digital. And as the world we know is changing at an incredible pace, there are predictions that 40% of the world’s leading companies will not exist in a meaningful way after the next decade if they do not adequately prepare themselves for this era. Undoubtedly, the fourth industrial revolution is about to create a world in which virtual and physical systems cooperate with each other in a flexible way. It is changing how we work, live and relate to one another – and the very essence of what it means to be humane.

Recognizing this imperative need to discuss and redefine ethical standards and regulations in innovation and the leadership styles required across all sectors, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and the World Forum for Ethics in Business in partnership with the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and the Peter Löscher Chair for Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich are organizing a series of conferences titled the ‘Munich Conference Series on Ethics in Innovation.’

The first conference in this series will take place from 26-27 June 2017 at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich and will focus on Information and Communication Technologies with special emphasis on innovations in the digital age, including artificial intelligence, internet of things and big data.

The conference will bring together 300 global thinkers and leading experts from academics, business, politics and NGOs and will address central questions such as:

Innovation 4.0: Can growth really be the main guiding principle of the fourth digital revolution? How can we ensure that this revolution is empowering and human-centred, rather than divisive and dehumanizing?
Leadership 4.0: What type of leadership is needed for organizations to be able to innovate and transform in the speed needed?
Education 4.0: Can value-based education be an answer to the need for adequate leadership?
CSR 4.0: How can we assure that the fourth industrial revolution does not devour its own children but actually creates shared value?

Venue

German Patent and Trade Mark Office
(Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt) – DPMAforum
Zweibrückenstraße 12
80331 München
Germany

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