The contemporary European context has enhanced the need to develop and promote a European Union (EU) sport diplomacy aimed at using sport, increasingly present in popular culture and politics, as a soft power tool to strengthen both internal relations within the European Union and external relations with non-EU actors.
Anchored within this context, and conscious of the economic, social and cultural benefits at stake for the EU, Towards an EU Sport Diplomacy (TES-D) has gathered a unique European consortium of professionals from think tanks, universities, and associations in order to draft and promote relevant policy recommendations for an EU-level sport diplomacy.
Building on the hypothesis that the sum of all existing national sport diplomacies of the EU can be used to create coherent and implementable policy recommendations at the EU-level, TES-D’s guiding principle is to mix academic inquiry, practitioner perspectives and empirical knowledge. In addition to conducting pilot actions and proposing e-learning content, reports and relevant data specifically collected for the project will be regularly published on this webpage, made to grow and maintain a network of re