Sport Good Governance Game

Background Good governance is advocated as one of the means to deal with threats to sport such as corruption, match-fixing, sexual transgression. Until now, most governments have used top-down strategies forcing sport federations and sport clubs to apply a type of good governance code. In contrast, the Sport Good Governance Game (SG3), uses a bottom-up strategy to create awareness, knowledge, and skills on why and how sport managers can implement good governance principles to their sport organisation. Objectives The SG3-project has three main objectives, each one linked with a tangible output of the project: 1) Raise awareness on the importance of good governance (= Sport Good Governance Game)2) Transfer knowledge on good governance and ethical leadership (= Sport Good Governance Workshop)3) Help sports organisations to apply a better good governance policy (= Sport Good Governance Action Plan). Implementation The SG3 Project consisted of three phases. In the first phase the SG3 Game, Workshop and Action Plan were developed by the experts in the SG3-project. The second phase tested and adapted these outputs based on the feedback of sport managers in seven different countries. Lastly, in the third phase, these project outputs were played and implemented with sport managers in Europe and abroad. Finally, new game leaders were trained to guide the SG3-project in their sport club or federation. Achievements During the project lifetime, the SG3-Game, Workshop and Action Plan were played by 460 managers, policy makers and board members of sport organisations and 483 sport management students. Currently, 85 game leaders were trained to further disseminate the SG3-project in their sport organisation. This number grows every day as an online workshop and tutorial videos are made accessible for those interested to become a game leader to help further spread the SG3-project. All accessible on www.sg3.eu.