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The Vladimir Potanin Foundation will hold an international online conference 6-7 April.
At the present moment social sport is not regulated or specifically developed any official body in Russia, and representatives of NGOs, HEIs, sports federations, who implement programs in sport, physical education, healthy lifestyle, education and social protection, do not have a common platform to communicate and share experience.
“We believe that sport is an essential tool for making an impact and rising people’s living standards, it has a huge potential, – notes Oksana Oracheva, the General Director of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation. – On the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, we would like to invite for a discussion everyone interested in exploring how sport influences our values, what social effects accompany a sport project and how sport technologies can be applied in NGO work.
In 2020 we launched a new charitable program “Power of Sport” to increase the number of positive changes. But the questions that arose during the program development do not have definite answers. That is why we hope to initiate a dialogue between leading Russian and international practitioners of the non-profit sector”.
Conference goals
- bring together experts and influencers in physical education and philanthropy, government officials, representatives of the sport community and business;
- initiate a public discussion on social sport, its impact, objectives and opportunities;
- develop a platform for cooperation of all stakeholders.
Among conference “Sport and Society. Open Talk” participants there are:
- Daniel Anorve, Professor, Guanajuato University, Mexico
- Igor Baradachev, Program Head, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Foundation
- Natalya Belogolovtseva, Director and Founder, All-Russia Rehabilitation Program “Dream Ski”
- David Evangelista, Regional President and Managing Director, Europe and Eurasia, Special Olympics
- Stanislav Kasparov, Head of Business Support within Regions of Business Presence, SIBUR Holding PJSC, Donors Forum Chairman
- Olga Sloutsker, President, Special Olympics, Russia
- Olga Pugach, Founder, Russian Movement “Plogging in Parks”
- And representatives of Ministry of Sport, Russia; leading experts of the Russian sport and business community.
Among the moderators there is Vladimir Voloshin, Managing Partner, Newman Sport, Co-founder, HOT SPORT, IRONSTAR and ROSA RUN; Anastasija Guljavina, Co-founder, Impact Hub Moscow project; Natalya Kaminarskaya, Director, “Blagosfera” Centre; Vadim Kovalev, First Deputy Executive Director, Russian Managers Association; Elena Temicheva, Director of Communications and Strategy, "Blagosphera" Centre; Andrei Sharonov, President, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.
It is planned that the conference program will include live communication with the speakers and a poster session.
Additional information, program and registration (in Russian) fondpotanin-sport.ru/
National Priority is a strategic partner of the conference.
Association of Managers and the Charitable Foundation ‘Nuzhna Pomosch’ are partners of the conference sessions.
Information about participation: Valeria Matveeva, silasporta@fondpotanin.ru, +7 (495) 149-30-18
Press Accreditation: Anastasia Peskova peskova_aa@fondpotanin.ru, +7 (985) 472-02-50
Reference
The conference “Sport and Society. Open Talk”, timed to coincide with the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, will be held within the framework of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation new program “Power of Sport”. The program started in 2020. The Foundation in cooperation with the Centre for Social Projects “Platforma” has already conducted research on the state of social sport in Russia and in January 2021 the first grant competition “Sport for Everyone” was launched. The objective of the competition is to identify and support sport initiatives fostering participation of citizens in solving social problems.