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sportainable®SCORE


Initiative: Peter Kuhn


Involved: Samana Anzinger, Isabel Beckstein, Carina Dangel, Jennifer Goldbrunner, Bernhard Grundl, Pia Häuslein, Alexander Hahn, Max Handke, Marko Hanke, Héloïse Hutter, Peter Kuhn, Marie-Kritin Lindner, Luisa Miller, Quirin Niederauer, Laura Opitz, Leon Rade, Veronika Radlinger, Julia Röttger, Florian Maximilian Schmidt-Holthausen, Schönfeld, Elena Schreiner, Mia Ströll, Lara Tapprich, Stella Tomm, Amrei Wagner, Simon Wittenzellner


Background: Demand for scientifically based assessment and transparent evaluation and communication of sustainability in sport; Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive; European Sustainability Reporting Standards


Question: How can the sustainability of elements of sport - products, services, organizations - be assessed and communicated?


Objective: Assessing sustainability in sports and making it visible


Methods: Product and organization analysis, survey


Duration: from 2022


Funding: third-party funds


Partner: planetics, Sport-Thieme GmbH


Findings: Using a hermeneutic process, legal texts were interpreted and transformed into a list of questions. The resulting content was regularly reviewed in a weekly participatory group discussion and supplemented with an evaluation process. In a further methodological step, the questionnaire was checked for comprehensibility and accuracy in an internal pre-test. The result was the prototype of an evaluation tool that makes sustainability measurable and visible on the basis of the ESRS.

Conclusion: A differentiated and transparent score for evaluating and communicating the sustainability of elements of sport is feasible. We have developed functioning software. The graphic implementation in a communication medium is nearing completion.

sportainable®DOUGHNUT


Initiative: Peter Kuhn, Manfred Miosga, Sabine Hafner


Involved: Alexander Bax, Carlotta Ohlemann, Lukas Schels, Manuel Sand, Kristof Taubert


Background: "The Doughnut is the core concept at the heart of Doughnut Economics", a model developed and first published in 2012 by Kate Raworth. "The Doughnut consists of two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left falling short on life's essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure that humanity does not collectively overshoot the planetary boundaries that protect Earth's life-supporting systems. Between these two sets of boundaries lies a doughnut-shaped space that is both ecologically safe and socially just: a space in which humanity can thrive." (https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics)

What we are currently working on is transferring the principles of the doughnut to sport.


Question: How must sport and its systemic conditions be designed so that they contribute to the well-being of all those involved in the social dimension and so that it does not overstretch planetary boundaries in the ecological dimension?


Objective: As a basis, we define social and ecological 'sportainable development fields', which we — top-down — derive from an analysis of existing concepts of sustainability goals and — bottom-up — from a large-scale stakeholder survey, and from which we derive 'sportainable development goals' that are both horizontally and vertically scalable.


Methods: Document analysis, stakeholder survey


Duration: from 2023


Funding: own resources


Partners: tbd


Findings: no findings yet

Together we score – an alliance sustainable sport development in Bavaria


Initiative: Peter Kuhn


Involved: to come


Background: Sustainability is a joint task. Every measure contributes to overall development. The focus here is on SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals


Question: How can an alliance for sustainable development be forged in a state sports association?


Objective: Formation of a network of as many sports clubs as possible with the aim of networking and mutual support with regard to sustainable development


Methods: Document analysis, stakeholder survey


Duration: ab 2024


Funding: tbd


Partner: Bayerischer Landes-Sportverband


Findings: no findings yet

9 Euro Ticket


Initiative: Ralf Brand


Involved: Andreas Kopp, Peter Kuhn, Julia Lohmann, Carina Nigg


Background: The studies of Peter Kuhn (1996) and Pamela Wicker (2019) showed that sports depend on motorized private transport, that this generates considerable amounts of CO2 and that the sports-related use of public transport depends on its structural quality.


Question: Does the 9 Euro ticket influence the modal split of athletes?


Objective: To advise decision-makers in sports organizations and sports policy on the promotion of sports-related public transport use.


Method: Initial survey of athletes on site - respondents scan a QR code with their smartphone to access the survey or are interviewed by interviewers via paper/pencil - immediately prior to training or competition with Qualtrics Online Survey and four follow-ups (on site or email reminder); cross-sectional and longitudinal


Duration: May (initial survey) to September (four follow-ups in June, July, August and September) 2022


Funding: own resources


Findings: The 9 euro ticket does not significantly influence the modal split of athletes.

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