Are you looking to kick-start your international career and gain real exposure to the sport management field from day one? Are you looking for an exciting challenge in a collaborative, engaging international association? Do you have a passion to work in sport management? Would you like to extend your international network and improve your inter-cultural skills? And do you “want to give something back to the sport management society”?

The European Association for Sport Management is looking for the next Student Representative, is that you?

Aim to foster

As the Student Representative you have an important role of taking care of Sport Management (SM) students. EASM really cares about its students and has been working hard to actively engage them with the life of the Association.

Who are we looking for? 

We welcome an open-minded, curious individual with diversity of thought and an eagerness to learn but also to take own initiatives. A genuine passion and excitement for sport management is fundamental in order to gain the most from this role. The EASM Board consists of sport management scholars from across Europe volunteering their time, which means you will be working in a team of dedicated individuals.

Essential criteria to become the student representative: 

• To be able to effectively contribute to the work of EASM and demonstrate excellent teamwork and project management skills
• Be self-motivated and able to work both independently or as part of a team
• Able to take responsibility and to work accurately and methodically
• Possess good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work without day to day direction
• An understanding of inter-cultural differences
• High levels of enthusiasm and commitment
• Efficient, well organised and systematic
• Friendly and helpful

Specific competencies: 

• As EASM undertakes various work and projects, your competencies of student matters are of big importance. However, communication is key in order to engage the students and help improving the future of sport management students.
• All meetings and correspondence undertaken by EASM are in English; hence, all board members should have good verbal and written english skills

EASM Expectations: 

• Board members are expected to attend three board meetings per year, where EASM covers the travel expenses for the Student Representative. Board meetings usually take place during the EASM Conference in September, and also March and December each year. An additional meeting for Executive Board members takes place in June each year.
• Board members will be assigned individual projects and tasks related to the EASM aims and expected to report back regarding developments and progress.
• All Board members are required to be involved in helping to organise and coordinate the key work undertaken by EASM including: the Annual EASM Conference, EASM Student Seminar; EASM PhD Seminar; EASM Summer School; the European Sport Management Quarterly and other projects associated with EASM. All board members are expected to contribute to the EASM Annual Report that is presented at the AGM each year.

Applicants for the position of Student Representative must:

• be a student for atleast two more years
• commit for a two year term
• (Preferably) be an EASM member for at least one year

How to apply: 

Please submit your application (motivation letter with some ideas of how to take on and accelerate the role as the Student Representative) as one pdf-file (max. 8 MB) via email to the EASM Student Representative Jakob Wikenstaal (jakob.wikenstaal@easm.net) before 30th August 2019. A new Student Representative will be appointed by the new elected board after the General Assembly 2019.

27^th EASM European Sport Management Conference

Seville (Spain), 3-6 September 2019

Call for Papers

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 19 April 2019, 23.59 CET

The Scientific and Programme Committee of 27^thEuropean Sport Management Conference of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) invites scholars and practitioners to submit abstracts to be considered for presentation. Additionally, we invite short papers to be considered for the EASM Best Conference Paper Award 2019and for the ESMQ New Researcher Award 2019for young scientific scholars. Reviewers contributing to assessing and progressing colleagues’ work in an excellent manner as part of the peer-review process will be awarded with the EASM Best Conference Reviewer Award 2019.

The Seville 2019 conference theme is “Connecting Sport Practice and Science”. In that respect, submissions that particularly, but not exclusively, relate to the conference theme are encouraged. Contributors have the opportunity to present in Parallel Sessions, Workshops, and attractive Poster Sessions during the conference.

The main aim of all conference sessions is to encourage participants from across fields to share knowledge, provide new insights and inspire the future of sport management. Sessions also offer a platform to create inter- and cross-disciplinary contacts and collaborations.

Please review the conference website www.easm2019.comfor full information on the conference content, submission requirements, awards and registration as well as further details about the wonderful Spanish city of Seville.

Parallel Sessions
In Parallel Sessions, every presenter gives a maximum 12-minute oral presentation with additional 5 minutes for discussion. Our Parallel Session topics are:

• Sport Governance and Policy
• Strategy, Leadership and Stakeholder Management in Sport
• Sport Marketing
• Sport Consumer Behaviour
• Sport Events and Tourism
• Sport, Media and Communication
• E-Sport and Technology
• Sport Facility Management
• Sport Funding and Finance
• Sport Law and Ethics
• Public Health and Physical Activity Management
• Sport Development and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
• Sport Management Education
• Broader, New and Critical Aspects of Sport Management

Workshops
Our Workshops aim to stimulate discussions and intellectual engagement between participants on a particular subtheme. They may be outcome-focussed, e.g. channel work into special issues; to integrate theory and practice; shift existing fields; or map out new sport management territory. Convenors design their Workshops by embracing a format and flow that enable collaboration and participant experiences different to traditional conference sessions. Details about each Workshop, including submission requirements, are available at www.easm2019.com/workshops. This year, we invite submissions towards the following Workshops:

• Knowledge translation in sport management
• En route to the future of brand research in sport management
• Critical reflections on good governance in sport
• Emergence and differentiation of global eSports
• Managing accessibility and inclusion of sport
• Designing sport management curricula
• Global development of ice hockey business
• Towards more robust designs for researching the impact of elite sport on society
• Special Workshop Malmö 2018: Sport and integration from a policy and governance perspective

Poster Session
The Poster Session is divided in two parts: first, contributors provide short oral presentations (3-minutes) to the whole audience; then, presenters position themselves next to their respective poster for individual Q&A’s and discussion. Submissions relating to any sport management topic are welcomed.

ESMQ New Researcher Award (NRA) 2019
The NRA, sponsored by Routledge Journals, is for the best original theoretical or empirical advance and significant unpublished contribution in sport management. To be eligible for this award, researchers must be near to completion of their PhD or have graduated less than three years prior to submission. Full details are available at www.easm2019.com/awards

Developing Future Sport Management Researchers and Practitioners
We invite undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD research students to apply/register for theEASM Student Seminar(www.easm2019.com/student-seminar) or, respectively, the EASM PhD Student Seminar (www.easm2019.com/phd-seminar), which take place just before the main conference. Full participant status at the scientific conference is included in the registration fee. Students can apply for an Alberto Madella Scholarship(www.easm.net/alberto-madella-scholarship).

Inquiries
For your inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the Chair of the Scientific and Programme Committee Seville 2019, Tim Breitbarth (EASM Scientific Chair, tim.breitbarth@easm.net).

If you like to join our large international community of conference abstract reviewer by offering your expertise and valuable time, please email Tim (incl. contact details, preferred tracks/topics).

After the 2014 Inaugural Conference of the World Association for Sport Management in Madrid, Spain, the 3^rd WASM Conference will move to Santiago de Chile in 2019 where the Universidad Santo Tomás will be the host university in association with the Chilean Olympic Committee.

This time, the topic of the congress is “The World Voice of Sport Management”, and it has been announced that Patrick Nally, considered the founding father of modern sports marketing, will be joining the conference as one of the keynote speakers.

WASM is now inviting you to present your academic or professional paper, or simply assist to the conference. The Call for Abstracts submission period is now open until March 1, 2019, and you can find all the information about the topics and guidelines on the Conference Website. 

EASM is pleased to present the 2019 Nominations Committee. 

The EASM Board would like to congratulate the new members on the committee and thank all candidates and EASM members who are making a contribution to the Sport Management Community in Europe.

Per Göran Fahlström
Linnaeus University, Sweden
Former EASM President

Anna Gerke
Audencia Business School, Paris

Tracy Taylor
University of Technology, Sydney 

Stefan Walzel (non-voting)
German Sports University, Cologne 
EASM General Secretary

In the online election for the EASM Nominations Committee 152 EASM members (35%) voted on the two available positions. The election period finished on 24th December 2018 resulting in the following:

The National Sports Governance Observer (NSGO) study is proudly presenting its final report.

EASM is a research partner in the ‘National Sports Governance Observer: Benchmarking sports governance across national boundaries’, which is an EU funded study carried out among the most important sports federations in Belgium (Flanders), Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, and Brazil.

The project partners are convinced the report will become the reference document in its field in the years to come.

The EASM Board is pleased to present to its members four strong applications for the EASM Nominations Committee:

Anna Gerke
Audencia Business School, Paris

I would like to put myself forward as a candidate for the EASM Nominations Committee. I have had first experience in this committee, which will be very useful to contribute and manage the tasks in the coming year.
I am very familiar with the main academic associations and journals for sport management. I have published in the three main journals and I have been participating in the major sport management conferences.
I have been now seven years in academia but consider myself still as early in my career as academic. Therefore, I would like to contribute to the EASM Nominations Committee from the perspective of a junior academic but at the same time learn from senior academics that are also part of the committee.

Elmar Guliyev

Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Education and Sport

• Founder and President of Erasmus Student Network Azerbaijan
• MA Sport Management student at Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Education and Sport
• Member of EASM

Tracy Taylor

University of Technology, Sydney 

I am pleased to accept the nomination to be on the EASM Nominations Committee. I have over 30 years of experience in sport management, as an educator, researcher and in senior management and service positions. I served SMAANZ Board, including as President and SMR Editor, and I have good networks within the EASM community having served as Editor of ESMQ and Board Member. I also chaired the EASM Awards Committee for two years. I am passionate about good governance and creating opportunities for emerging scholars to be involved in service to the profession.

Mathieu Winand 

LUNEX International University of Health, Exercise and Sports

Since my first EASM conference in 2009 in Amsterdam, I have been closely connected to the EASM community. I understand the objectives it pursues and the values it stands for as well as the challenges this represents, particularly in the light of my involvement in another European management conference. I see this participation to the EASM Nominations Committee as a service to the EASM community that I would do with great pleasure and altruism. I wish to contribute in an objective and transparent way of identifying and encouraging EASM Board candidates who share those EASM values and ambition.

The EASM Board is calling for candidates for the EASM Nominations Committee.

The Nominations Committee shall seek and encourage suitable candidates to stand for election to the EASM Board in 2019.

The Nominations Committee shall consist of four (4) persons as follows: (a) A former President or Board Member of high standing appointed by the Board (and who will Chair the Committee). (b) Two EASM Members who are not seeking election or appointment (as the case may be) who shall be elected. (c) EASM Secretary-General (non-voting).

The EASM Board appointed former EASM President Per Göran Fahlström as the chair of the Nominations Committee. Now, two EASM Members shall be elected. The General Secretary Stefan Walzel (non-voting) will complete the Nominations Committee.

Candidates must be EASM Members and can nominate themselves or other EASM Members can nominate them as candidates. The new constitution requires at least one woman as part of the Nomination Committee.

If you would like to nominate a suitable person for the Nomination Committee, please complete the application form and send it together with a portrait picture to EASM Secretary General, Stefan Walzel (stefan.walzel@easm.net) by 30^th November 2018 before 2 pm Central European Time.

Candidates will be introduced on the EASM communication channels on 2nd November 2018 before the voting period will commence on 10th December 2018. The deadline for voting is 24th December 2018, 2 pm Central European Time.

Voting results and the new members of the Nominations Committee will be announced on 7th January 2019.

For the first time elections will be conducted via online voting. Each member will receive login details for the election system via email and will be able to vote in the given time frame.

Application Form

The World Association for Sport Management is very proud to organize the 3^rd WASM Conference on 16th – 19th October 2019 and is inviting you to join with your research your presence. The conference is moving to Santiago de Chile where the Universidad Santo Tomás will be the host university.

Now it is time to start preparing your abstract and submit in line with the abstracts submission procedures outlined on the official WASM website at www.wasm2019.com. Deadline for Submission of Abstracts is 1st March 2019.

WASM 2019 Call for Abstracts