Sport diplomacy: identifying good practices

Report with a rapid review of good practice projects in the context of the European Commission’s Sport Diplomacy priority.

The key objective of the study has been to identify good practices, supported at national, European and international level in sport projects having an international dimension, namely involving non-EU Member States as well as projects which contributed to building a stronger position of a country on the international scene.

The good practices research has comprised two main elements.

• The first has used a systematic search approach to identify the good practice case studies. 
• A secondary element of the research was to conduct a mapping exercise to identify EU funding sources that could potentially to support external relations.