International Literary Contest Awards
Lausanne - 11 January 2020
The award ceremony for the 1st International Literary Contest was held in the Olympic capital of Lausanne in association with the Youth Olympic Games.
At Restaurant Lausanne 2020, in the Flon quarter where the Flame of the Youth Olympic Games shone on the tripod, the Lausanne Club hosted the Medals and Diplomas Ceremony given to the two youth who won the first absolute place. Many representatives of Swiss clubs, Secretary of the Foundation Maurizio Monego and Past International Board Member Renata Soliani attended the event. Unfortunately, President Pierre Zappelli was unable to attend the ceremony, which concluded the path of a project to which he had dedicated himself, because of a knee operation on the same day.
Secretary General Simona Callo, as well as the responsible of PI Representation of Lausanne, Melody Exhenry and President of the Lausanne Panathlon Club Philippe Cottet, welcomed, on behalf of the President, all those present by explaining the objective of the prize and announcing the two absolute winners of the 1st International Literary Contest: Marta Buscaglia (14 years old) of “Felice Casorati Artistic High School” in Novara and Angelo Petrellese (18 years old) of “Roncalli Higher Institute” in Poggibonsi (SI) who, with their works , "Un tuffo al cuore" and "Poesia", respectively won the first absolute prize for the age categories, 11-15 years and 16-19 years.
After reading the Jury's motivations, President of Lausanne Panathlon Club Philippe Cottet awarded gave the gold medals and diplomas to the winners.
Panathlon International offered the stay in Lausanne to the two prize-winners and their companions to participate and discover the Youth Olympic Games and to visit the city and the Olympic Museum.
At the end of the ceremony, the Secretary General thanked all those who collaborated on this PI project and the members of the Club who worked on the installation of a Panathlon International "stand", for the duration of the YOG, to promote our Association and spread our values among young people.
Finally, we would like to wish the two young writers who participated in this exciting moment, every success for the future!
International Literary Contest Prizegiving
The award ceremony of the two absolute winners for the age group of the 1st International Literary Contest announced by Panathlon International will be held on Saturday, January 11th in Lausanne. General Secretary Simona Callo will be present on behalf of Panathlon International.
A double sporting event as Lausanne will host from 9 to 22 January the third edition of the Youth Olympic Games, where the Panathlon International will be present with a stand set up by the Panathlon Club Lausanne for the duration of the games to promote our Association and spread our values, especially among young people.
Panathlon International Literary Contest – A great success!
The Judging Panel selected the two winners by age group of the 1st Panathlon International Literary Contest.
The winners are Marta Buscaglia from Liceo Casorati, Novara, for “Un tuffo al cuore”, and Angelo Petrellese from Istituto Roncalli, Poggibonsi (SI), for “Poesia”.
The two winners will be offered a week-end in Lausanne during the Youth Olympic Games, when the official award ceremony (11/01/2020) mwill take place.
Moreover, all the participants included in the final ranking, which is attached hereto, will receive medals and merit certificates at ad hoc ceremonies organized by the local Clubs.
A complete report and the winning works will be published in our Magazine.
We wish to thank the Judging Panel for their competence, patience and dedication, as well as the Panathlon Clubs and everyone who has worked very hard to promote the Contest and to identify high-profile works expressing outstanding quality and values.
And... heartfelt congratulations to the Winners!
Panathlon International is committed to the health of our seas
On Tuesday 11th December 2019, President Pierre Zappelli together with Once Ocean's Executive Vice-President and legal representative, Dr. Riccardo Bonadeo signed a Collaboration Agreement in which Panathlon commits not only to sign but to collaborate for the dissemination of the "Charta Smeralda": an ethical code that aims to raise awareness of public opinion and all operators to address the most pressing problems of the oceans and marine and coastal ecosystems and which aims to define practical and immediate policy areas focused on problem solving.
The "Charta Smeralda" concerns those persons who live the sea for sport and passion, the lovers of the sea and the structures promoting and supporting activity.
Panathlon International, which is an international movement with the aim of affirming the sporting ideal and its ethical and cultural values as an instrument of formation and elevation of the person, solidarity and peace between men and peoples, could not remain indifferent to this initiative.
Thus was born the idea, promoted by the Club of Mestre and the Governor of the Venetian Area, to sign an agreement to collaborate to protect our Seas and Oceans, mothers and cradles of our Planet and our life and of those sports activities carried out within them.
A truly important initiative focused on raising awareness of the current situation and of the risks that our marine and coastal ecosystem runs, an environment on which our survival depends. Rapallo, seat of Panathlon International, but also many other cities and harbour around the world, have already had the demonstration of the violence and enormous damages that ecosystem imbalances can cause.
And we're just getting started.
Panathlon International’s antenna in Brussels was successfully represented at different events organized by the EU DG Sport.
As the objective of P.I. is to develop a regular participation of Panathlon and Panathlon members into the development of ethical values in sport at an international level it is the aim and role of IB member Paul Standaert to focus on the European level.
Mr. Standaert was invited to the meeting of EU Expert Group on Integrity in Sofia, Bulgari on 12 and 13 November 2019.
Members of this group are international experts in the field of the struggle against Sport manipulation and match fixing. The Bulgarian Ministry (Mrs. Racheva -Slavkova Director Eu programmes), hosted the meeting and welcomed
Counties and Governments of EU states Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Hungary, Lithuania, Estland, Netherlands and more participated.
National and International organizations are invited to the Expert Group as observer and are welcome to share experiences and insights on these topics.
Observers represented sport unions, Interpol, SIGA, UNODC, ENGSO, Digital Sport Rights, FIFA, UEFA, International Betting Integrity Association and also Panathlon.
The meeting was chaired by Mr. Le Losteque Head of the EU unit Sport. He expressed the great interest of EU to the topic of good governance and match fixing and promotes applications to Erasmus + projects in the framework of the combat against match fixing.
For 2019 only 7 applications on the 260 granted are based on anti-match fixing.
Therefor EU calls for new projects on the topic. The next deadline for 2020 application is April.
Panathlon International is a collaborating partner in a 2019 project EPOSM, a initiative of the University of Gent in collaboration with the universities of Loughborough (UK), Lausanne (CH), Utrecht(NL), and also IRIS (FR) VMIS (Austria) Stichting CSVF (NL) The antenna of P.I. in Brussels will take care of the coordination for P.I.’s role and input in this project in collaboration and support of the Panathlon EU club.
In Sofia, M Standaert was able to represent Panathlon and to connect with the participants and specifically to representatives of Bulgari and Greece. Both expressed a sincere interest in Panathlon’s work and values, and they will study the possibility to start a Panathlon activity in their country.
Mr. Luciano Di Fonzo of EACEA reported the latest status about Erasmus + and shared some statistics on the evolution since 2014.
2014 – 40 projects
2019 – 260 projects selected upon 700 applications, for a total grant of 55 million EURO.
On the agenda of the meeting was an overview and status of the work realized by the expert group (already 4 meetings) It’s final report and recommendations is to be finalized in the next days.
On 30th of January 2020 EU will organize in Brussels an Erasmus+ Information day.
Venerdì 29 novembre, presso l’Hotel Savoia Excelsior Palace di Trieste alle ore 9.00 hanno avuto inizio i lavori del Comitato di Presidenza
Work in progress
On 29 November 2019 the city of Trieste will host a session of the President’s Committee of Panathlon International, coordinated by President Pierre Zappelli.
The meeting will take place at the Savoia Excelsior Hotel on the morning of Friday, November 29.
I VERTICI DEL PANATHLON INTERNATIONAL A TRIESTE IL 28 E 29 NOVEMBRE
Report on European Week of Sport 2019
Paul Standaert, PI representative to the European Union and PI International Board Member, described the positive evolution of P.I.’s partnership that started with a major event to promote the duties of parents in sport in 2015, to the actual situation where more than 20 Panathlon clubs organized local events for a large public and on different topics.
Molfetta e Matera seats of the meetings
Conclusions of the International Board and Extraordinary Assembly of P.I.
Saturday 26th October, with a special dinner at the “stones” in the wonderful Matera, ended the three days work of PI.
Thanks to the great collaboration and welcome received by Panathlon Club Member’s together with President Angelo Spagnoletti and International Board Member Oronzo Amato, PI’s works took place in a friendly atmosphere and with an excellent organization.
Among the points in the Agenda the IB has formally accepted, with regret, the resignation of International Board Member Roberto Carta Fornon and decided his substitution, according to PI Regulations, with the first unelected candidate, William Saad Abdulnur of Panathlon Club Taubaté (BR).
On Saturday 26th October the Extraordinary General Assembly for the statutory changes took place in the beautiful setting of the Diocesan Museum next to the Cathedral located in the historic centre of Molfetta.
There were 100 clubs 43 of which were physically present and 57 by proxy, reaching and exceeding the minimum quorum provided by the Statute.
The International President presented the articles proposed in amendment by the IB and, after some interventions by the Clubs, the Assembly has therefore voted to accept the variation of Articles 1.3 -11.3 – 15.2 – 17 – 18 – 21, rejecting other proposals. As a result, the statute will have the following draft (changes are in red):
Article 1 – Name, motto and headquarters
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3. Its legal, administrative and operative headquarters are in Rapallo (Genoa – Italy) where the General Secretariat is located.
The International Board may entrust operational activities to P.I. representations outside Italy.
Articolo 11 – International Board
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3. omissis ….The International Board may hold additional meetings online or via videoconferencing.
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Article 15 – Constitution and Arbitration Board (C.A.B)
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2. who are or used to be practicing judges, lawyers, notaries or university professors of law.
Article 17 - Districts
1. A minimum of three* clubs are grouped together for organisational purposes in a National District corresponding to a State, of which it takes the name. Districts are headed by a President according to the Statutory rules.
For countries with only one Club, this may be included in a regularly formed District of a nearby Country and its President will represent Panathlon in that Country. The Expansion Commission of PI is responsible for coordinating the Clubs that are not associated with any District.
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* Transitional rule: From the date of approval of the Statute, the Districts composed of just 2 (two) Clubs are granted 3 (three) years to comply with this provision.
Articolo 18 – District Presidents
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Excerpt from the point:
4. The Supranational District is presided by Panathlon International Past-President or, in case of waiver and/or impediment by a past International Board appointed by the I.B.
Article 21 - District and Area Assemblies
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2. The District and Area Assemblies are attended by the Club Presidents or their Delegates.
Panathletes who have held an international office or the office of District President or Governor, respectively, are also entitled to participate with the right to speak.
The other articles will remain unchanged, thus acknowledging the willingness of the clubs not to change the deliberative role of the past-president and not to merge junior members into senior clubs.
A heartfelt thank goes to the members who have worked together in the verification of credentials and as scrutineers, to Vice President of the Assembly Oronzo Amato, to Pasquale De Palma Secretary of the Assembly and to all those who have contributed to the excellent outcome of the event.
Il Sindaco Tommaso Minervini
Il Vicepresidente Regione Puglia Il Presidente Panathlon Club Molfetta
Angelantonio Spagnoletti
On Thursday 17th October, Presidents Pierre Zappelli and Bruno Molea together with the General Secretaries Simona Callo and Wolfgang Burghardt, in the presence of the responsible of the CSIT President's Office Ms. Valeria Gherardini, have expressed their satisfaction with the excellent outcome of “Panathlon Prize” established on the occasion of the World CSIT Games and their desire to continue with this project for the next games that will be held in Zagreb in 2021. They also discussed how to implement collaboration and participation in projects aimed at the European community.
At the end of the meeting, President zappelli invited those present to attend Panathlon International Congress in May 2020. The following day the CSIT forum “Sport impact all” took place at the hall of Honour of CONI at the Foro Italico.
