Title: ACTIVITY REPORT
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VI UBC GENERAL CONFERENCE

Commission on Sport 

Activity Report October 1999 – September 2001

Annual Meetings of UBC Commission on Sport

Between Ocotber 1999 – September 2001 Commission on Sport organised 2 annual meetings: 

1. Panevežys (Lithuania) 28-30 April 2000
The 2000 Annual Meeting of the Commission was held in Lithuania with the participation of representatives from 4 countries: Lithuania (Kaunas, Panevežys, Vilnius, Klaipeda), Latvia (Jūrmala), Denmark (Kolding) and Poland (Gdynia) participated in the meeting. 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, as usual grants for sporting events were allocated (for full list see below).

2. Sopot (Poland) 7 April 2001
The representatives of 7 countries: Lithuania (Šiauliai, Panevežys, Klaipeda), Latvia (Riga), Denmark (Kolding, Aalborg, Århus), Finland (Kotka), Sweden (Karlskrona), Germany (Frankfurt), Poland (Koszalin, Sopot, Gdynia) 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 sport events organisation were presented by the UBC EU Co-ordinator. Following the tradition, UBC Commission on Sport awarded grants for organising sport events. On the occasion of the 10^th anniversary of UBC, more grants were allocated to increase the promotion of the Union.

Grants Allocated by UBC Commission on Sport

In the years 2000 and 2001 UBC Commission on Sport allocated 13 grants of  the total amount of  6 250 EUR.

No. | Name of Sporting Events | Organiser | Date | Granted Amount
YEAR 2000
1. | UBC Sports Games | Klaipeda Lithuania | 29-30.07.00 | 1200 EUR
2. | II European Road Running Race | Gdynia Poland | 28.05.00 | 550 EUR
3. | International Female Cycling Competition | Panevežys Lithuania | 27.06-02.07.00 | 1000 EUR
1. | International UBC Football Tournament” | | 08-11.06.00 |
1. | International Handball Festival | | 15-17.09.00 |
1. | International Volleyball Tournament | | 26-28.05.00 |
YEAR 2001
4. | IX Twin Cities Sporting Competition | Gdynia Poland | 10-13.05.01 | 900 EUR
5. | Beach Soccer Cup of Jurmala | Jurmala Latvia | Summer 2001 | 300 EUR
6. | UBC Sports Games | Klaipeda Lithuania | 27-29.07.01 | 900 EUR
7. | Panevezys Sports Festival | Panevezys Lithuania | 24-26.08.01 | 350 EUR
8. | UBC Volleyball Tournament | Panevezys Lithuania | 19-21.10.01 | 300 EUR
9. | International Football Teams Competition for Juniors | Tukums Latvia | 20-22.07.01 | 250 EUR
10. | IV International Vilnius Races | Vilnius Lithuania | 19.09.01 | 500 EUR

Chairman of UBC Commission on Sport

From 1999 the UBC Commission on Sport is chaired by Mr Władysław Kozakiewicz, member of the City Council of Gdynia and a gold Olympic medallist in pole vault from Moscow 1980. He was re-elected the Commission Chairman at the Annual Meeting in Sopot in 2001.  Mr. Björn Fries, Deputy Mayor of Karlskrona is Vice-chairman of the Commission on Sport. Secretariat of the Commission is led by Gdynia.

UBC Commission on Sport Co-operation with Other Organisations

Between 1999 – 2001 the Commission on Sport initiated cooperation with the following international sport organizations:

1.  Danish Federation for Company Sports – wishes to spread senior sport in Denmark and not only. The sport should create a basis for health and well-being of this age group, and therefore the organization has developed a “Beginners Guide” to motivate more people to start practicing sport. 
2.	Network for the European Youth Work in Sport – co-operation of eight European countries in the field of youth work in sport. The organization focuses their work on the following issues: European dimension, young people’s participation in the organized sporting events, sociable potential of sport. 
3.	Polish Floorball Federation – floorball is a young sport rooted in the USA. The federation was established in 1995 in Gdynia to promote the new game among youngsters and adults, among fit and disabled people. 

Initiatives of UBC Commission on Sport

In the end of 1999 a brochure on the Commission on Sport was published. 

In October 2000 the Commission on Sport introduced into its home page the following data base (www.ubc.net/commissions/sport-database.html):
1)	data base of sports club in member cities in order to make direct sports exchange easier among clubs in Baltic Sea Region countries, 
2)	sports equipment stock exchange; part of the western UBC members regularly change      their sport equipment in clubs and stadiums which still can be used by other members. 

Additionally, in winter 2000 the Secretariat of the Commission on Sport issued a pendant with the UBC logo to serve as a promotional gadget and to be distributed as a memento of 10^th anniversary of the UBC.  

Action Plan  2002 -2003

The UBC Commission on Sport was established to create and promote contacts between young people from Baltic Sea Region in the area of sport and physical education.

The main goals for the Commission on Sport for the next following years are as follows:

-	to create and improve a network for international co-operation in sport,
-	to organise sport events with the special attention to the priorities on the youth and gender equality,
-	to promote the exchange of experience and information about events between sport clubs and societies,
-	to enlarge a network of active members of the Commission,
-	to initiate a co-operation with other major international sport organisations within Baltic Sea Region,
-	to integrate of UBC youth through sport events,
-	to build up a common platform of integration for disabled and fit people by means of sport activity,
-	to promote health style of life by daily sport activity,
-	to support financially sport events in the UBC member cities.