European Sports Clusters PartnershipPartnership Members

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)

ESCPThematic Focus: objectives

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.

ESCPPlanned Activities

1. Development of a European network of sports clusters

2. Addressing a societal challenge from the sports innovation arena perspective:

3. Seek for innovative market opportunities, focused on the health and social issues

4. Promotion of the clusters’ and clusters’ members’ expertise

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ESCPTarget countries

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)