REGIONAL SPORT, INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION:

1. REGIONAL SPORT, INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION: The role of regions in building a legacy of sport participation and excellence 9th and 10th December 2008 at the Welsh Institute of Sports Presentation by: Ignasi Doñate Director-General for International Promotion Secretariat for Foreign Affairs Government of Catalonia

2. SPORTS FUNDING AND ADMINISTRATION IN CATALONIA

3. FUNDING SOURCES OF SPORTS POLICIES IN CATALONIA. • Funding by Catalan Government • Funding by Spanish Government • Funding by local governments • Catalan sport federations own resources • Resources by Spanish sport federations • Private funding

4. FUNDING SOURCES OF SPORTS POLICIES IN CATALONIA. % • Spanish administration 4.853.946 € • Catalan Government 91.250.449,72O € • Own funding 7.399.256,17 €

5. PERCENTAGE OF FUNDING SOURCES OF SPORTS POLICIES IN CATALONIA Catalan funding 88.2% Spanish Funding 4.7% Own funding 7.2%

6. CATALONIA SPORTS POLICIES FUNDING Sport for all 4.5% Sports facilities 25.7% Sport at school 13.7% Sport and health 1.6% Sport agencies 1.4% Sport and companies 1.9 % Sport and work 0.21% Sport excellence 16.7% Women sport 2.7% Quality of sport organisations 26.6% General services to sport system 1.6% Improv. sport management 3.3%

7. FUNDING SOURCES OF SPORTS POLICIES IN CATALONIA

8. SPORT COUNTRIES NETWORK The network is an international group of permanent work, formed by public administrations of differents sport countries which adhere to it to put in common their sport policies to establish ties of international cooperationa

9. FEATURES OF THE SPORT COUNTRIES NETWORK • Network of networks • International network • Network of institutional iniciative • Network with triple democratic requirement: individual, social and institutional

10. PROPOSALS I • Sport Countries Steering Committee, suggested to work on these Proposals and objectives: • To maintain the use of “sport countries” concept, as a common frame and large concept grouping together different types of countries with the intention and will to support its own sport system. • To define the common use and management of the “sport countries” web. • To promote exchange of information with updated filled questionnaires and country reports. • To study common sport features of countries related to the network.

11. PROPOSALS II 5. To establish some objectives in common as axis of mutual collaboration. 6. To act as a voluntary and useful network on sport issues in the international framework and sport movement. 7. To promote sport events in related sport countries and to enlarge the public knowledge of these events. 8. To promote, in general, international competitions and sport exchanges at different levels. 9. To promote international courses on sport issues by TIC support following the background of Sport Countries Network.

12. TOOLS 1.- Sport Country features questionnaire 2.- Sport country report 3.- International Sport Countries Conference 4.- International Sport Countries Tournaments 5.- Agreements between Sport Countries

13. STRUCTURES 1. Technical Secretariat 2. Steering Committee 3. “Sport Countries Conference” Organizing Committee

14. HOW TO JOIN SPORT COUNTRIES NETWORK ? Al countries administrations fulfilling sport country features and sharing the aims of network proposals will be linked to the Sport Countries Network. Each administration should fulfil the sport country questionnaire –see the web- and nominate a contact person.