Panathlon International

PI President's Committee

On February 11, 2021, a new meeting of the PI President's Committee will be held by videoconference.

Among the various topics on the agenda: new projects for clubs, guidelines for the establishment of clubs and for the granting of patronage, new contacts for the opening of Clubs in Italy and Africa.

Athletes' Voices - Putting Athletes' Voices at the Centre of Sport Safeguarding

Turning the safeguarding debate on its head, this conference will focus on athletes' needs, priorities and perspectives on safeguarding. Athletes will share their views. Each session will include two athletes interviewed (some with experience of violence in sport), who will provide reflections on the data presented.

The conference will open on Thursday 11 March with a keynote speaker and four speakers discussing human and children's rights, athlete defense, community and state defense.  On Friday 12 March there will be six interdisciplinary sessions discussing a range of topics, including athlete-coach communication, the approaches to justice focused on the athlete and independent interventions. 

To register for the conference follow this link

https://www.safesportinternational.com/ssi-2021-march-conference-programme/ 

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC), The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee (Tokyo 2020) Today published the first playbook, a resource which outlines the personal responsibilities key stakeholders must take to play their role in ensuring safe and successful Olympic and Paralympic Games this Summer 

First Playbook

Panathlon International chosen as partner in the EPOSM Erasmus+Project

"Evidence-based prevention of match-fixing in sport".

The EPOSM project ("Evidence-based Prevention of Sport-related Match-fixing") launched in 2020, will last two years (2020-2021) and is co-financed by the European Commission in the context of the Erasmus+ Collaborative Partnerships in Sport programme. During this project, eleven high-level European institutions will join forces to: raise awareness on the prevalence of sport-related (i.e. non-betting-related) match-fixing, stimulate moral judgement on sport-related match-fixing, and share and transfer this knowledge. These objectives will be pursued by disseminating and analysing questionnaires on match-fixing in seven European countries, developing country-specific action plans and organising workshops against match-fixing and disseminating these results to as many sports stakeholders as possible.

Panathlon International, through the Panathlon Representation in Brussels, in close contact with the Panathlon Cultural and Scientific Committee, was called upon to collaborate mainly because of its familiarity with the complex sports landscape, its extensive network and the sport-practice competence of its members. In the next issue of the magazine you will find the in-depth analysis.

70 Years of Panathlon  - 1951-2021 

On 12th June this year Panathlon will be 70 years old!

While the preparations of the Club of Venice are in progress to organize a great event for that day, all Clubs are invited to celebrate the Panathlon Day that this year will have an even more significant value as it will be lived in a context, we hope, of rebirth for sport, associationism and the whole world.

In this expectation we thought, hoping to do a pleasant thing, to create a "special" logo that clubs and bodies of Panathlon, will be able to insert on letterhead, e-mail messages, web sites, social media etc..

A small symbol to feel all closer. 

The first part of the Panathlon International Photo Contest 2020 has ended.

The photos taken by Martino Pota member of the Club of Rome, manager of the SS Lazio Bowling (section colours) and the one taken by Lucia Custodi President of the Panathlon Club Orvieto (section black/white) have been the ones that have obtained more likes on our Facebook page, winning the Web Award! 

The photos will be published on the cover of PI Magazine, as stated in the Contest Rules.

Congratulations to Martino Pota and Lucia Custodi and  thank you to the numerous participants for their pics; through the language of the images they have transmitted emotions, worries and new behaviours that this pandemic has forced us to live in sport and in our lives, sometimes also with a pinch of irony!

An international jury will decide the final winners in each category.

The album of all the photos that participated can be seen at 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=179783882157204&set=a.2073784946090412

On Thursday 11th February 2021 the closing ceremony of the 16th Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport will take place.

Panathlon International that has always participated in the various sessions bringing its own contribution to the topics dealt with, both for the revision of the European Charter of Sport and for Human Rights in Sport, will also be present to listen to the Final Resolutions. 

This online session open to the public can be followed live by accessing the link below and following the instructions. 

16th Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport (coe.int)

Area 11 Campania, training webinar

The Area 11 Campania with the Panathlon Club Napoli on 4 February at 7:00 p.m. organizes a remote meeting on the "Panathletic Ceremonial". The speaker will be Hubert Bowinkel Ceremonial Counsellor of Area 11 and Club Napoli. A prearranged intervention on the conduction of the webinar, will be by Siro Pasquini President of Club Valdarno Superiore. The evening will be attended by the President of District Italy Giorgio Costa and the International Board Member Giorgio Chinellato, delegated by President Pierre Zappelli. Many Panathletic authorities have confirmed their presence, but the real "core" of the evening will be the presence of many panathletes present.

The evening will be held on the Zoom platform and will be open to all Areas, Clubs and friends.

IOC - Tokyo Olympics

The IOC plans to vaccinate all Olympic delegations to allow the smooth running of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer.

The indiscretion was picked up by the British newspaper Daily Telegraph reporting on the strategy that the International Olympic Committee has developed in collaboration with the World Health Organization.