The European Association for Sport Management (EASM) has steadily developed and professionalised over the past years to offer its members more services and play a more substantial role in developing the sport management discipline in and beyond Europe. However, this development has led to an increase in our organisation’s scope of tasks and work. The increased workload is particularly reflected in the duties of the Secretary General, who works voluntarily like all Board members.

In order to meet the future requirements of a modern and co-determining association, the EASM Board would like to reorganise the importance of the operational management of the organisation. To that end, the further professionalisation of EASM will be closely linked to the position of the Secretary General. The EASM Board is considering two alternative basic models for the coming legislative period (09/2022 – 08/2025) and possibly beyond:

(1) Appointment of a voluntary Secretary General who will receive a support package including a budget for the management of the EASM Office and for hiring additional staff. or
(2) Appointment of a full-/part-time employed Secretary General (e.g., on a shared basis). EASM will provide a support package for the salary costs and the management of the EASM Office. This person will be based at the partner organisation (e.g., university, sport organisation).

Private individuals and organisations who feel addressed are requested to submit an informal expression of interest by 15 April 2022 (23:59 CET) to the EASM Office via email (office@easm.net), stating one of the two preferred models and a brief outline of the possible implementation and framework conditions (max. 2 pages). Please make sure that you briefly outline services that you can provide for and with EASM, and an estimate of the budget needed to implement these services (staffing, office costs, and the like). After the deadline, the EASM Board will prepare a shortlist. The EASM Board will then contact the most promising candidates invite them to submit a more detailed proposal. These proposals will be used as starting point for the negotiations with the candidates on the shortlist.

For any questions related to this call, please contact President, Vassil Girginov (vassil.girginov@brunel.ac.uk), or Secretary General, Stefan Walzel (stefan.walzel@easm.net).

Follow this link for the pdf: EASM – Call for expressions of interest

The UEFA Research Grant Programme (UEFA RGP) is a prestigious grant programme designed for academics working in partnership with UEFA member associations to deliver research that improves strategic decision-making in European football. It is for anyone working on, or already holding, a PhD who is analysing European football from a variety of academic disciplines, including management.

UEFA awards individual grants of up to €15,000 each and €20,000 for joint applications involving two or three researchers based in different countries, for a nine-month research period.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• have obtained a doctorate and currently hold a research position at a university or equivalent institution; or
• be enrolled as a doctoral student at a university or equivalent institution and currently be preparing a doctoral thesis; and
• have a letter of recommendation from a UEFA member association.

Applications and final reports must be written in one of UEFA’s official languages (English, French or German).

Useful information:

• Deadline for application: 31^st of March 2022
• Further information and regulations: The official application form and the UEFA Research Grant Programme Regulations – which detail all relevant requirements and deadlines – are available on UEFAacademy.com/courses/rgp
• Contact for any questions: academy@uefa.ch

We look forward to receiving your application to the programme.

The year 2022 marks an election year for the European Association for Sport Management. With the exception of the ESMQ Editor, the entire EASM Board will be up for appointment, as all EASM board members current three-year-term expires this year.

The EASM Board is made up of volunteers from across Europe who work together to fulfil the main aims of EASM. The EASM Board consists of eight elected Board Members:

• 1 President,
• 1 Vice-President,
• 1 Treasurer,
• 5 General Directors

and three appointed ones (student representative, ESMQ editor, Secretary General).

The current EASM President, Dr Vassil Girginov (UK), current EASM Treasurer, Aila Ahonen (FIN), and current EASM General Directors, Karin Book (SWE), Irena Valentine (LIT) and Jakob Wikenstál (SWE) indicated their interest for another term, while all other elected EASM Board Members will not be available for re-elections.

The EASM Nominations Committee invites all EASM members to nominate suitable candidates and/or to put themselves forward.

Interested individuals are encouraged to submit their application by 27^th July 2022, 12 noon CET to the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Chris Horbel (chrish@nih.no) and the Secretary-General, Stefan Walzel (stefan.walzel@easm.net). Please visit the website for the formal requirements, the mandatory application form and further information.

Candidates will be introduced to the EASM family on the website on 24^th August  2022 at the latest.

The electronic voting will take place 31^st August – 06^th September 2022. All EASM members will receive a personal invitation to vote electronically. Your vote counts, so please make sure you cast it during the specified period.

Two years into the Corona pandemic, the above question can be considered very relevant. We have experienced mostly digital conferences these days, while we are very much looking forward to our EASM 2022 on-site conference in Innsbruck.

What is your opinion on this?

Please take part in a survey provided by our Japanese colleagues from Waseda University who target to investigate the particular question concerning future International Sport Management Conferences.

To participate, please follow this link: https://wasedaunivcampus.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d72vfkA2xX5Q4XI

Scholars and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts to be considered for presentation by 22 April 2022 at the latest. The Innsbruck 2022 conference theme is “Bridging Sport, Tourism and Leisure Management”.

For further details please follow this link:

Call for Papers