Every year the Commission on Sport organizes meetings at which various sport-related issues are discussed e.g. multilateral sports projects, sport as an integration and rehabilitation tool for the disabled,education through sport, healthy lifestyle through sport as well as organization and functioning of sports departments in UBC member cities. So far the annual meetings of the Commission have been held in

• Tallinn - Estonia (2010)
• Karlskrona - Sweden (2007)
• Gdynia - Poland (2006)
• Klaipeda - Lithuania (2005)
• Narva - Estonia - (2004)
• Aalborg - Denmark (2003)
• Karlskrona - Sweden (2002)
• Sopot - Poland (2001)
• Panevežys - Lithuania (2000)
• Gdynia - Poland (1999)
• Šiauliai - Lithuania (1998)
• Cetniewo - Poland (1997)
• Karlskrona - Sweden (1996)
• Gdynia - Poland (1995)
  

Tallinn (Estonia), 22-24.04.2010 - "Sport is Cool!"

On April 22-24, in cooperation with the City of Tallinn, UBC Commission on Sport held its Annual Meeting 2010 "Sport is cool!" The idea of promoting sport activities among children and young people was the main subject of the meeting. Together the Commission members looked for measures of encouraging young generation to be physically active and fit as well as of promoting to them sport as an interesting way of passing their free time, and in this way discovering the tourist potential of the Baltic Sea Region. The programme of the Annual Meeting included, among others, presentations of best practices coming from various UBC member cities, such as Turku's Poweraction being after school physical activities for young people, projects from Karlskrona or Tallinn. The Commission did not neglect youngsters from disadvantaged groups, and thus had prepared a presentation showing options for disabled young people who can try their hand at sailing in order to actively discover the Baltic Sea Region. Additionally, the UBC Commission on Sport Annual Meeting was an occasion to present Commission's Campaign "Sport is cool!" targeted at young people and intended to search and promote effective methods of encouraging them to be physically active.

Presentations:
- Mario Kalmre, Youth and Extreme Sport (998.81 KB)
- Katrin Olsson, Healthy School (1.5 MB)
- Beata Łęgowska, Activity Report 2007-2010 (625.5 KB)
- Joanna Leman, Campaign (1.45 MB)
- Heini Parkkunen, After School Physical Activities for Youth (1.33 MB)
- Sylwia Skuza, Sailing: way to actively discover BSR (498.05 KB)
- Kaarl Zilmer, Move for health (3.58 MB)

Karlskona (Sweden), 19-21.04.2007 - "Sport - a Healthy Alternative"

The UBC Commission on Sport Annual Meeting entitled "Sport - a Healthy Alternative" gathered representatives of 8 cities from 7 countries: Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden. With sport as a healthy alternative being the main subject of this year's meeting, Karlskrona speakers (among whom there was a Sweden's Governmental Drug Coordinator) presented ways of preventing unhealthy and addictive lifestyles (such as drug addiction, doping), whereas in the second part of the meeting speakers from Turku (Finland) and local ones from Karlskrona focused on methods of promoting healthy habits.
Additionally, meeting participants had an opportunity to see the implementation of healthy lifestyle polices in practise, and thus visited the Karlskrona Indoor Athletic Arena and Telenor Arena Karlskrona. Moreover, during the meeting Mrs Beata Łęgowska was re-elected the Chairperson of the UBC Commission on Sport, and Mrs Camilla Brunsberg was nominated the Commission's Vice Chairperson. Furthermore, at the meeting there was presented 2007 grant awarding procedure entitled "Always Active". By allocating the grants the UBC Commission on Sport wanted to award those projects which encouraged elderly people to keep physically active and increased their functional capacity as well as promoted sport as a way of preventing various illnesses. As usual the Commission's grants were addressed exclusively to UBC member cities.

Gdynia (Poland) 04-06.05.2006 – “Active Living”

The UBC Commission on Sport Annual Meeting entitled "Active Living" gathered representatives of 17 cities from 11 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Belarus. The meeting consisted of two thematic blocks: the first one was devoted to multifunctional sports arenas. There were presentations of sports arenas in the cities of Gdynia (Poland), Rostock (Germany), Karlskrona (Sweden), Gladsaxe near Copenhagen (Denmark). The presentations consisted in demonstrating a management system of sports facilities as well as ways of promoting sport among inhabitants of all age groups from the a/m cities.
The second block dealt with best practices connected with active living programmes - "Cities on the Move". This part of the Annual Meeting was prepared in cooperation with the Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association. The first presentation entitled "One step - better than nothing" showed how Turku (Finland) promotes healthy lifestyle as well as encourages its inhabitants to be active. Moreover, the representatives of Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association presented the programme "Schools on the move" whose objective is to make schooldays (especially school breaks) more physically active. Next, a representative of Polva (Estonia) presented the town's experiences in developing healthy and active strategies. The following presentation was focused on "Exercise and Diet on Prescription" - the initiative implemented in Copenhagen.
Moreover, at the meeting there was presented 2006 grant awarding procedure entitled "cities on the Move". By allocating the grants the UBC Commission on Sport wanted to award those projects which allowed people (especially sedentary ones) to keep fit all the year round (first of all during autumn/winter season) as well as to encourage people of all age groups to be active all the year round and to develop their active living habits.

Klaipeda (Lithuania) 14-16.04.2005 – "Healthy Lifestyle through Sport"

One of the questions posed during the 10th Jubilee Annual Meeting of UBC Commission on Sport organised in Klaipeda on 14th-16th April 2005 was how to motivate people to be more active. Participants from 13 UBC member cities from 6 countries discussed the issue of physical activity and health promotion presented by professor H. Löllgen (Germany) and Mr. D. Kepenis from Palanga School of Health (Lithuania). Moreover, two practical examples were shown by Ms H. Parkkunen (Finland) – Healthy City Programme carried out in collaboration with WHO and by Ms B. Grüner (Germany) – Interreg III C SportUrban Project. During the meeting of the Commission on Sport Ms Beata Łęgowska (Gdynia) was re-elected Chairperson for the next term of office and Ms Lena Ryge (Karlskrona) was elected Vice-chairperson. Furthermore, there was a presentation of the 10 years of Commission’s activity made by Ms Ewa Depka (Gdynia) as well as of 2005 grant awarding procedure entitled “Healthy Lifestyle through Sport”. By awarding grants for sports projects, the Commission on Sport wanted to demonstrate the importance of a healthy lifestyle. It is known that regular physical activity reduces mortality by 36 %, improves the quality of life and slows down the aging process. Even 30 minutes daily of physical activity prolongs your life, reduces overweight and decreases medical and economic costs.

Narva (Estonia) 2-3.04.2004 – "Education through Sport"

The meeting was attended by representatives of 12 cities from 7 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. In response to the announcement of European Year of Education through Sport by the Council of European Union, the Commission on Sport devoted its meeting to this particular subject. Among the presentations, there were examples of projects on education through sport carried out in the fields of sailing, rugby and kick-boxing. The main objective of the sporting activities organised was to encourage young people to develop themselves both physically as well as socially. This aim was obtained through teaching such abilities as team work, solidarity, tolerance and fair play rules. As a part of the celebrations of the European Year of Education through Sport, the Commission decided to award grants for the organisation of sporting events with special emphasis put on counteracting social exclusion of socially disadvantaged groups. It was the aim of the a/m grants to raise awareness among educational and sporting organisations in order to stimulate their cooperation in the field of education through sport. Awarding grants also aimed at promoting values of sport and increasing the number of school and sports exchanges among young people.

Aalborg (Denmark) 11-13.04. 2003

The 2003 Annual Meeting in Denmark gathered representatives of 6 cities from 4 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. Its title was “Sport as a rehabilitation tool for integration”. In addition to discussing organizational matters, UBC Social Campaign “Without Limits”- Agenda 22 was presented together with the other presentations, namely:
(1) “Broadness for the most important life spheres among disabled people” (Jorn Erik Edsbo);
(2) “Youth Games in Aalborg with special focus on the sport for disabled persons” (Mette Bertelsen),
(3) “Sport as a rehabilitation tool for integration - A life after the working life” (Arne Odgaard),
(4) “Senior Sport project” (Kristine Langagergaard),
(5) “Sport as an integration tool for refugees/fugitives” (Morten Ubbesen).
Additionally, the participants of the meeting could see how it feels to be disabled during a study tour in “The Association for Disabled in Aalborg ”. In relation to the announcement of the year 2003 - European Year of People with Disabilities, the Commission had decided to initiate Equal Opportunity Prize instead of allocating grants.

Karlskrona (Sweden) 15-16.03.2002

The 2002 Annual Meeting of the Commission was held in Sweden with the participation of representatives of 13 cities from 5 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The subject of the meeting was “Integration of the disabled through sport”. Apart from formal issues such as last year’s Commission Activity Report discussed in the course of the meeting, the following presentations were given:
(1) “Integration of the disabled through sport on the example of Gdynia, Poland” (Beata Wachowiak-Zwara);
(2) “Sports Activities of the Disabled on the example of Karlskrona, Sweden” (Thomas Hall);
(3) “The Sport Union of the Disabled in Aalborg” (Jan Sörensen, Arne Odgaard);
(4) “Sports for the Disabled in Sweden” (Lars Hjeltman). In addition, grants for sporting events were allocated.

Sopot (Poland) 7.04.2001

The representatives of 13 cities from 7 countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Poland participated in the annual meeting held in Sopot. During the meeting speeches were given on the following topics:
(1) “Senior Sport Project” by Aalborg,
(2) “Network for the European Youth Work in Sports” by Frankfurt am Main and
(3) “Unihockey – Sport for Everyone” by Gdynia. Furthermore, the possibilities of the EU support for sporting events organisation were presented by the UBC EU Co-ordinator.
Following the tradition, UBC Commission on Sport awarded grants for organising sporting events. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of UBC, additional grants were allocated to increase the promotion of the Union.

Panevežys (Lithuania) 28-30.04.2000

The 2000 Annual Meeting of the Commission was held in Lithuania with the participation of representatives of 7 cities from 4 countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark and Poland. They made a short presentation on the organisation of sports structures in their cities, quantity and quality of sports facilities, functioning of sports clubs as well as the most popular sport disciplines among the inhabitants and the results they achieve. Moreover, the subsidiary work within the Commission, the work organisation of the Commission’s Secretariat in Gdynia was presented and each member of the Commission was encouraged to undertake and to implement their own sporting initiatives. Moreover, traditionally grants for sporting events were allocated.