We are currently representing 11 sports associations
based in 8 different countries: France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
COSMOS
CoSMoS was created in 1997 and is the French sport employers’ organisation. It represents the sport sector in its diversity of stakeholders with associations and federations, professional sport, commercial sport leisures and sport event organisers. CoSMoS supports and trains its members in their daily difficulties as employers, defend their interests to the public authorities and negotiates labour law in the sport sector in France. It is one of the founding members of the EASE.
The Arbetsgivaralliansen
is an independent confederation of Swedish employers such as sporting and educational associations. They contribute with the competence of professional employers, in all matters concerning the relationship between employer and employee, for example in labor law, work environment, leadership and wage formation. They work as specialists in labour law knowledge as well as with unique competence and knowledge of the non-profit sector’s conditions. In EASE, Arbetsgivaralliansen is represented by Johnatan Kibebe (General secretary) ;
Urheilutyönantajat ry
The Sports Employers’ Association monitors the common interests of sports and sports employers and increases the employer skills of its members. The most important part of the activities of the Sports Employers ‘Association is to gather the views of sports organizations for collective bargaining and to support Paltaa (Service Sector Employers’ Association) in the negotiations. In addition, sports employers provide low-cost training, for example on the conclusion of employment contracts, working hours and collective agreements. In EASE, Urheilutyönantajat ry is represented by Petri Heikkinen (Treasurer)
WOS (The Werkgeversorganisatie in de sport)
WOS promotes good employership and takes that very seriously. Therefore they negotiate together with the trade unions FNV Sport and Movement, CNV Professionals and The Union for the collective labour agreement in sport (CAO Sport). In recent years, they improved working conditions for employees working in sport in The Netherlands and they strive to improve these conditions even more!
Confederazione dello sport
is the Italian association which represents the interests of professional sport, not-for-profit sport and active leisure sport activities. The collective agreement the Confederazione dello Sport negotiate in the name of sport employers affects 40,000 sports workers. It is currently the only national collective agreement for sports operators, with a supplementary health care fund and a supplementary pension fund. The Confederation is a member of the EBISPORT Bilateral formed with workers union, with its observatory on the application of the employment contract. The Confederation has signed conventions for services to its members and represents them before national and territorial public authorities. It currently has around 5,000 affiliates throughout the country. It is represented by Maria Cecilia Morandini.
Sportwerk Vlaanderen
Sportwerk is a responsive network organization, the reference and pioneer in professionalising the sports sector and in employment in sport. They have more than 30 years of experience in these fields and operate in the Flemish part of Belgium. They are the connection between people working in the sports sector, customers, partners and society. A network organization, agile and continuously moving through innovation and following up on social needs. Sportwerk wants to legally employ high-quality, qualified and/or competent employees in the sports sector, advise the sports sector and help them on their way to (effective) employment. In addition to sports technical tasks, Sportwerk also focuses on organization-, advice- and support functions within the sports sector.
Sport and Citizenship
Sport and Citizenship is a Think tank created in Brussels in September 2007, a few weeks after the adoption of the European Commission’s White Paper on sport. Today, it is the only Think tank in Europe, whose social objective is the analysis of sporting politics and the study of sport’s societal impact. Independent and apolitical, Sport and Citizenship has ten years of expertise and benefits from recognition by public authorities and stakeholders of European sport. It is therefore regularly consulted by international and European institutions, the Member States, the sports movement and civil society which recognise it as a privileged interlocutor in this field.
HFA (Health and Fitness Association)
The Health & Fitness Association (formerly IHRSA), a global community of industry leaders, is the only worldwide trade association providing a unified voice for the community of leaders who operate health and fitness facilities, offer professional guidance on physical activity, and provide the tools and equipment to do so to the millions of fitness facility members who understand that exercise improves their physical and mental health. Through advocacy, education, and research, the association speaks to opportunities, challenges, and changes that are moving the industry into a new era. Founded in 1981, the association publishes a monthly magazine, Health & Fitness Business, and operates The HFA Show, the European Congress, and the Fly-In and Advocacy Summit.
Special Olympics France
Founded in 1991, Special Olympics France is a recognised public interest organisation that works to benefit people with intellectual disabilities. It is part of the Special Olympics International Movement. By organising numerous sporting events, Special Olympics France enables hundreds of athletes with intellectual disabilities to demonstrate what they are capable of achieving every year. By mobilising volunteers and developing unified sports, we encourage interaction between the ‘ordinary world and the world of disability’. This is our way of encouraging participation for all and removing barriers. This is how we want to change society’s perception of intellectual disability.
SŠIC (Slovak Sports Innovation Centre)
SSIC is an association of legal entities based in Bratislava, bringing together companies, organizations, schools, scientific institutions, and entities that have the potential and interest in implementing innovative solutions and technologies in Slovak sports and promoting health through sports. The aim of SSIC is to support the creation and integration of an innovative ecosystem for Slovak sport. To create space for finding common ground between the various entities of the innovative sports ecosystem.
SUS (Sports Union of Slovenia)
Sports Union of Slovenia (SUS) as the largest national sports for all organization connects different sports organizations, associations, clubs and individuals working in the field of sports recreations and sport for all in Slovenia. It unites over 170 organisations and has over 60.000 members scattered all over Slovenia. Their common goal is to promote healthy lifestyle and active use of leisure time. The vision of the Sports Union Slovenia is to be the leading sports organization in the field of sports recreation and sport for all in Slovenia, which will seek to approximate recreational sports and physical activity to every individual. The Sports Union of Slovenia aims to encourage participation in physical activity, and contributes to the development of physical literacy and sport for all sector on the national level.
EASE has also developed a strong relationship with some relevant partners:
EU athletes is a federation of independent athlete associations from all over Europe with member associations from 15 European countries representing over 25,000 professional athletes.