2017 EUROPEAN WEEK OF SPORT

EL is an official partner of the 2017 European Week of Sport, which will take place on September 23 to 30, 2017.

Learn more about this European Commission initiative here.

EL MEMBERS GIVE MORE THAN 23 BILLION EUROS BACK TO SOCIETY

Revenues generated by Lotteries in Europe are returned to the State budgets and the funding of causes of general interest, for the benefit of society. For instance, by contributing to CULTURE.

For more information, read the EL Factsheets

2.5 BILLION EUROS ARE GOING BACK TO SPORT

EL Members contribute to the sustainable development of grassroot and amateur sport and participate in the development of the European sport model.

For more information, read the study on the Impact of Lotteries as a Funding Source for European Sport

EL/WLA CSR Responsible Gaming Seminar

EL/WLA Security & Integrity Seminar

Sports ministers and stakeholders from 116 countries met in Kazan on 13-15 July 2017, as part of 6th International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS VI) to discuss and agree on a concise action plan for developing sports strategies. The countries developed a comprehensive vision of inclusive access to sport with a view to promoting sport and physical activity among women and men of all ages and physical condition. They also sought ways to maximize the contribution of sport to sustainable development and to protect the integrity of sport, including professional sport.

The Kazan Action Plan is available here.

On the Olympic Day, EL recalls the significant contribution of EL Members to the Olympic Movement and calls for further dissemination of the Olympic Values world-wide

Lotteries in Europe have been enthusiastically supporting the Olympic movement in many different ways and for a long period, be it through support to the hosting of the Games, structural contribution to their NOCs or support to projects seeking to disseminate Olympic values.

After 18 months of intensive work, the Council of Europe (CoE) along with its Partners concluded on June 16 in Strasbourg the project “Keep Crime out of Sport” (KCOOS). The European Lotteries Association was a key partner in this project. The KCOOS project had the objective to support states in implementing the key provisions of the Macolin Convention, notably the setting up of national platforms, the sharing of information among key stakeholders, the development of education and prevention initiatives.

On the World Refugee Day, EL recalls that grassroots sport can be a significant tool for social integration and empowerment.

With society being one of the core values of EL, and with the refugee crisis being on the increase, EL strongly recalls that sport can have a role in the social integration and trauma-relief of refugees in Europe. EL recently awarded and provided support to a grassroots sport club that uses sport and physical activity to integrate young refugees in the society, and at the same time has a supporter status to the ASPIRE project, a project that seeks to make sport clubs and their sport facilitators more open, accessible and inclusive, especially with regards to the integration of refugees.