International Conference: Changing Sports Development – China and Europe

On December 15^th and 16^th 2017, the conference "Changing sports development: China and Europe" was held at German Sport University, and organized by the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies at German Sport University in cooperation with the Euro-China Sport Development Association e.V.. The conference brought together German academics with researchers and experts from seven universities and additional organizations in China. In addition to this, a larger number of practitioners from China and Germany contributed to the meeting. The conference followed a clear interdisciplinary approach addressing different academic disciplines from sport management and sport politics up to physical education and high performance sports.