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European Sports Clusters Partnership. Sports related industries account for... 3% of the GVA in the EU (€ 294.36bn) Employ almost 4.46m people (2.12% of total employment in 2012). Partnership Members.
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European Sports Clusters Partnership • Sports related industries account for... • 3% of the GVA in the EU • (€ 294.36bn) • Employ almost 4.46m people (2.12% of total employment in 2012) Partnership Members
To set up a common and shared coherent strategy amongst European clusters by bringing together what we call the Golden Triangle • To promote international cluster cooperation among the European sports clusters and create cross-sectorial collaboration with other clusters • To provide new market opportunities in sports, sports stimulation, health and social coherence. ESCP Thematic Focus: objectives
Development of a European network of sports clusters Addressing a societal challenge from the sports innovation arena perspective: Seek for innovative market opportunities, focused on the health and social issues Promotion of the clusters’ and clusters’ members’ expertise ESCP • Bringing together Planned Activities
The selection of the target countries results from: • Existing relationships between: the partner clusters and clusters or potential clusters in the targeted countries and areas • Challenges that these target countries meet in terms of physical inactivity and associated costs • East Europe (Poland, Czech republic and Hungary) • USA • South East Asia (South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) • South America (Brazil, Argentina and Chile) ESCP Target countries