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EU funding (€772,800): Addressing inequality, enhancing diversity and facilitating greater dialogue in the hosting of sporting mega events. Hor1 Dec 2018 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Addressing inequality, enhancing diversity and facilitating greater dialogue in the hosting of sporting mega events.
Major sporting events (MSEs) have been the subject of increasing levels of critique in recent years for the social costs associated with their bidding, planning and delivery. The rationale used by cities and countries for hosting MSEs is often the potential for an event to generate positive economic and social transformation within the host area (Brittain, Bocarro, Byers and Swart, 2017). However, research has repeatedly demonstrated actual impacts of hosting MSEs fall short of these lofty claims and in reality often result in detrimental effects for host populations. The negative impacts of MSEs have variously been reported as: exacerbating human rights abuses; facilitating corruption; supporting elite beneficiaries over those most in need; and transforming host destinations’ urban environment by displacing vulnerable populations. Recent mega sport events (a specific category of the largest MSEs, such as the Olympic Games and World Cup; Muller, 2015) have been the subject of international condemnation for being the catalyst for forced evictions (Beijing 2008; Rio de Janeiro, 2016), restricting media freedom through censorship (Sochi, 2014), abuse of migrant labour in the construction of facilities (Sochi, 2014; Qatar, 2022) and increased political repression (Beijing, 2008). Human Rights Watch has suggested that “Time after time, Olympic hosts have gotten away with abusing workers building stadiums, and with crushing critics and media who try to report about abuses…the right to host the Olympics needs to come with the responsibility not to abuse basic human rights” (Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives, HRW). The EventRights project will explore and produce recommendations as to how MSEs can influence MSE organizing committees and other stakeholders to ensure that progressive social opportunities to address inequality, enhance diversity and facilitate greater dialogue are enshrined in the planning, delivery and legacy plans for the events themselves.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Fundacao Getulio Vargas | ? |
| Coventry University | €76,360 |
| Goeteborgs Universitet | €43,102 |
| JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ | €23,000 |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN | €301,760 |
| Universitaet Innsbruck | €82,938 |
| University of Bath | €50,600 |
| University OF Peloponnese | €23,000 |
| University of Surrey | €32,200 |
| University of the West of Scotland | €139,840 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/823815
The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The current state is available on the following page: Fundação Getulio Vargas, RIO DE Janeiro, Brazil.
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