Football and Social Responsibility (FSR)

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Football and Social Responsibility (FSR)

• From uniteagainstracism to Respect Diversity
• Geneva, 20.10.2011

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Institutional stakeholders
Football and Social Responsibility

• 53 UEFA member associations
• European Club Associations (ECA)
• Association of European Prof. Football Leagues
  (EPFL)
• FIFA
• National player trade unions (FIFPro)
• Football Supporters Europe (FSE)
• European Union (EC / Council of Europe)
  
  
• European Team Sports EHF, IIHF, FIRA-AER and CEV

Location, 17/10/2013
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Institutional framework
Football and Social Responsibility

• Anti-doping unit
• Anti-corruption unit
• Club licensing scheme
• Social dialogue
• Financial Fairplay
• HR equal opportunity recruitment policy
• Protection of minorities

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Social Responsibility strategy
Football and Social Responsibility

• Core Partnership Portfolio
• Ad Hoc Partnerships
• Monaco Award
• Finance mechanism

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Core partnership portfolio 2007-2011strategic
themes
Football and Social Responsibility

• Peace, Reconsilitation and Violance
• Health
• Football for all abilities
• Racism and Discrimiation
• Humanitarian Natural Disasters
• Environment

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Core partnership portfolio 2007-2011strategic
partner
Football and Social Responsibility

• Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA)
• World Heart Federation (WHF)
• Special Olympics Europe Eurasia (SOEE)
• Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE-network)
  
• Education 4 Peace (Master your Emotions)
• Terre des Hommes (TdH)

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Ad Hoc partnerships
Football and Social Responsibility

• Swiss Academy for Development (SAD)
  www.sportanddev.org
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• Homeless World Cup with ProPoor Sports
• WWF, for a living planet

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Football and Social Responsibility
Portfolio Core 2007-2011(4 years) min. contribution 200 K Ad hoc(limited 1-2 years) max. contribution 150 K
Strategic themes Strategic core partners Strategic ad-hoc partners
Racism Discrimination Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE-network)  
Peace and Reconciliation Anti-Violence Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA)  
Peace and Reconciliation Anti-Violence E4P Master your Emotions  
Football for All (abilities) Special Olympics Europe Eurasia (SOEE) Homeless World Cup
Health (public health issues) World Heart Federation (WHF) Healthy Stadia initiative
Humanitarian and Natural Disasters Terre des Hommes (TdH) International Committee of the Red Cross
Environment   WWF, for a living planet
  Swiss Academy for Development SAD
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Monaco Charity Award 1998-2010
Football and Social Responsibility

• 1998 SOEE
• 1999-2000 ICRC
• 2001 FARE-network
• 2002 CCPA
• 2003 Make-A-Wish
• 2004 INAS-FID
• 2005 ProPoor Sports
• 2006 IBSA
• 2007 CPISRA
• 2008 ELA
• 2009 NADS
• 2010 UNODS
• 2011 streetfootballworld

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Budget Objective
Football and Social Responsibility

• continue to re-invest fine income
• aim at 0.7 of UEFA Ø gross income
• comply with intl. standard of 0.7 of GDP

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uniteagainstracism campaign
Football and Social Responsibility
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uniteagainstracism campaign
Football and Social Responsibility

• Conferences
• 2003 London at Chelsea
• 2006 Barcelona at Camp Nou
• 2009 Warsaw at Hilton Hotel
• 2013 France?

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Institutional discrimination
Football and Social Responsibility

• Seminar
• 2011 Amsterdam

2009-11 14 female committee members overall, 3
of which were Vice-Chair positions (all 3 in
Womens Football Committee) 2011-13 23 female
committee members overall, 1 of which is an
invited member to the ExCo and the Chairwoman of
the Womens Football Committee, and 5 of which
are Vice-Chair positions (3 in Womens, 1 in Club
Licensing and 1 in Fair Play SR)
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Institutional discrimination
Football and Social Responsibility

• Representation and structural discrimination in
  football in Europe
• The case of minorities and women
• Dr Steven Bradbury
• Dr Mahfoud Amara
• Dr Borja García
• Professor Alan Bairner
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• School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
• Loughborough University

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FARE action weeks 12-25 October 2011
Football and Social Responsibility

• 16 Champions League games
• 24 Europa League games
• Chidrens escorts
• Tonney announcement
• Captains armbands
• Posters
• Match programme editorials
• 30 sec giant screen video

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Sanctions renforcement of the law of the game
Football and Social Responsibility

• precision of Law 5 of the Game
• Serious racist incidents - Frist step Stop the
  match
• Serious racist incidents Second step Suspend
  the match
• Serious racist incidents Third step Abandon
  the match
• Disciplinary consequences
• Briefing at organisation meeting
• Entry into force and communication,
• Vilnius 2nd July 2009

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UEFA Respect campaign
Football and Social Responsibility
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Flashback Social Responsibility EURO 2008
RESPECT pyramid
Football and Social Responsibility

• Official UEFA EURO 2008 charity
  scorefortheredcross.org (respect solidarity)
• UEFA EURO 2008uniteagainstracism (respect
  diversity)
• UEFA EURO 2008Football for All (respect all
  abilities)
• UEFA EURO 2008Fan embassies (respect fan
  culture)
• UEFA EURO 2008EUROSCHOOLS2008 (respect
  children)
• UEFA EURO 2008 (respect the environment)Austro-S
  wiss sustainability strategy

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Social projects at EURO 2012

• RESPECT Fan Culture -Fan Embassies
• RESPECT Diversity -Football unites
• RESPECT your Health -Euroschools 2012
• RESPECT Inclusion
• Football with no limits
• Show case games
• Tournament charity
• RESPECT the environment

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Social projects at EURO 2012

• Fact sheet RESPECT Diversity Football Unites
• Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) with
  Never Again (NA)
• Educational and campaign activities against any
  form of discrimination 2009-2012
• Respect Diversity reception, 8 June 2012
• ½ finals dedicated to RESPECT Diversity campaign
  
• Fan entertainment, street-kick in host cities
• Discrimination monitoring at match in stadia
• Budget 995K

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Football and Social Responsibility

• Sector 05 FSR and Environment EURO 2016 bid
  criteria
• Table of Contents
• 1. Overview Aim, Background, Concept 3
• 2. Environment 4
• Transport 4
• Site selection and construction 4
• Green infrastructure 5
• Water and waste management 5
• Climate change 6
• 3. Health and society/culture 7
• Diversity and inclusion 7
• Health 7
• Fan hosting 8
• Solidarity 8
• Community development 9
• 4. References 10

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Football and Social Responsibility

• No to Racism
• Champaign clip

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Football and Social Responsibility

• Thank you for your attention
• Q A
• Patrick K. Gasser