Sports Foundation NRW

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The Sportstiftung NRW is a North Rhine-Westphalian foundation for the promotion of young talent in competitive sport . Today there is at least one similar institution in every federal state ( there are two in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony-Anhalt ) that differ slightly in terms of their profile (funding only top-level or school and mass sports). The foundation's assets were contributed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

The aim of the Sportstiftung NRW is to enable young athletes from NRW to take part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games as well as in World and European Championships. The focus is on supporting the transition from the state squad to the federal squad, so that there is no gap when athletes are no longer entitled to state funding, but have not yet achieved the appropriate management status for financial services from Deutsche Sporthilfe or similar institutions.

history

It was established on December 12, 2000 as a foundation under civil law. On December 21, 2000, approval was given by the Minister of the Interior. The foundation capital amounts to approx. 6.33 million euros.

2001 to 2005 there was a 1. Kuratorium with the Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement (until 2002) and Peer Steinbrück as at the top. Hans Jürgen Baedeker was chairman of the board. In 2002, NRW athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Athens received basic monthly funding for the first time. A second board of trustees followed between 2005 and 2010 with Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers. Manfred Speck was chairman of the board. 2006 was start-up funding from the German Research Center for Competitive Sports "momentum". The sport psychological pilot project mental talent began in 2008 in cooperation with the Psychological Institute of the German Sport University Cologne . From 2010 to 2015 there was a third board of trustees, chaired by Minister President Hannelore Kraft . Anke Feller was chairman of the board . The twin career as a form of dual career was presented in 2010. By 2019, around 140 athletes were cared for in around 90 companies. In 2011 there was start-up funding for the "Health Management in Competitive Sport" project. For the first time in London 2012, participation prizes were granted for Olympic and Paralympic NRW athletes. At the FELIX Award (NRW Sportsman of the Year), the Sports Foundation awarded the prize in the "Newcomer of the Year" category for the first time in 2013. From 2016 to 2021 a fourth board of trustees followed with the chairman Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft (until June 2017) and Armin Laschet . Ute Schäfer leads the board. Increased participation bonuses were given to Olympic and Paralympic NRW athletes in the same amount from 2017. From 2018, the sports foundation is solely responsible for the individual support of athletes in North Rhine-Westphalia. The first German scholarships were awarded to student national team athletes.

Bodies

Board of Trustees

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet . His deputy is Andrea Milz , State Secretary for Sport and Volunteering in the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia. As stipulated in the statutes, the board of trustees includes the president of the state sports association of North Rhine-Westphalia and the West German football and athletics association. In addition, further representatives from sport, politics, business, science and the media are appointed to the board of trustees.

Board

The board will have at least one representative each

  • of the ministry responsible for sport / since 2017 of the NRW State Chancellery
  • of the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • of the West German Football Association
  • the economy

as well as at least one competitive athlete. The minimum size of the board is therefore five members. The maximum size of the board is eight members.

  • Chair: Ute Schäfer
  • Deputy Chairwoman: Ingo Wolf (member of the board since May 2019; former Minister of Sport and Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia), Gisela Hinnemann (member of the board since 2006; Vice-President of Competitive Sports of the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia) Ute Schäfer replaced Anke Feller as chairwoman in April 2016 .

"Ambassador"

Personalities from top sport, business and science promote the Sportstiftung NRW. These include Abdul-Rahman Adib, Heiner Brand , Rudi Cerne , Heide Ecker-Rosendahl , Carsten Fischer , Volker Grabow , Heike Meier-Henkel , Christian Keller , Henry Maske , Steffi Nerius , Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth , Frank Ostholt , Bernhard Peters , Marion Rodewald , Arnd Schmitt , René Spies , Sophie von Saldern , Frank Wieneke , Marcel Wüst

advancement

The funding of around 3.9 million euros per year comes from the budget of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The funding objective is a high participation and medal quota as well as a "renewal quota" at the Olympics and Paralympics for NRW.

In 2017, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia initiated the unbundling of the areas of responsibility of the state sports association and the sports foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia. As a result, the sports foundation is now concentrating on individual support in Olympic and Paralympic sports. The Sports Foundation awards u. a. Rewards for the participants in the Olympic and Paralympic Games sponsored by it in the amount of 3,500 euros.

The funding volume amounts to approx. 65 million euros in the funding period 2001 to 2019. Funding is provided for most summer and winter sports for the Olympics and Paralympics.

The twin career is a component of the dual career in competitive sports. In a twin career, athletic and professional careers run parallel rather than one after the other. Sports activities, studies or training as well as presence phases in the company are integrated into an individual, holistic and long-term life plan. In the “Business & Competitive Sport” community, the Sportstiftung NRW bundles around 100 commercial companies for projects that help top athletes shape their careers.


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of regional sports foundations by the German Olympic Sports Confederation , accessed on May 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ Ute Schäfer takes over from Anke Feller. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .

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