Land:301,318km²　Population:59,104,000

　

　Open air bowls

　"Tumble" in countryside paths

　Soccer-table

　

　According to ISTAT (National Institute of Statistics) http://www.istat.it

　Soccer, Gymnastics, Swimming, Winter Sport, Cycling

　

　Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Cycling,  Motor Racing

　

　Decree Law #242 "Reform of CONI" (1999)

　Law in #376 "Sanitary Prevention and Fight against Doping" (2000)

　

　Italian Olympic Committee (CONI)

　Address:Foro Italico 00194 Roma

　Tel:(39)6.368.51 Fax:(39)6.36.85.76.97

　http://www.coni.it/

　

　In Italy 65% practice sport in which 18.9% in a continual way, 8.5%twice a week, 38.6% once a week, 35% none.

　

　64,000 sports clubs for 6,500,000 members

　

　NA

　

Address: Direzione nationale, Largo Franchel lucci 73,00155 Roma

Tel:(39)6.43984307 Fax:(39)6.43984320

e-mail:presidenza@uisp.it

http://www.uisp.it/

　

　October, 1948

　

　Mr. Nicola Porro

　Title: President

　Occupation: Professor of Sociology at University of Cassino

　

　Private corporation: Sport association without commercial aim.

　

　Sport for All: Sport promotion as an instrument of social inclusion.

　

　Full-time staff: 5 Part-time staff: 10 Civil Servant: 5

　

　Approx. US$5million (2000)

　Approx. US$5million (2001)

　

　Bicincitta: Cycling race in the centers of 150 Italian cities at the same time.

　Giocagin: Gymnastics for all in 50 Italian cities at the same time.

　Via del parco: Sport activities in all natural parks.

　Vivicitta: Long distance race in the same day in 40 Italian cities

　Bimbinpiazza: Volleyball, basketball and road games for the children.

　Neve UISP: A winter meeting dedicated to ski and snow activities.

　

　Programs available for the following target groups:
　　Infant and Pre-school children (Age 0 to 5), School children (Age 6 to 12), Adoles-cents (Age 13 to 16), Adult women, Employees at work-sites, General people in the community, Aged people, People with disabilities.

　

　Sport for third age, handicapped, children, prison inmates, immigrants and all traditional s ports.

　Type: Trainer, Coaches, Umpires

　

　Sports associations sharing the main social goals of ours, like C.S.I.(Sport Italian association of Catholic origin).

　Non profit and voluntary organizations acting in the field of environmentalism and solidarity, like UNICEF, Legambiente, WWF, Libera (National network against mafia).

　

　CSIT, FISpT, ISCA, TAFISA

　

　In the mid 90, we can summarize the main trends affecting the Italian sports system by the point of view of our organization:

　1) The paramount expansion since the 70 of the clubs linked to the spectacular team games (mainly football, of course) and the contemporary development of a social network less linked to the traditional "subcultures" (both political and territorial) and more inspired to an emerging social demand of health, fitness, emotions, often satisfied by the market, show that we are crossing again a radical turning point. It means that all the consolidated configurations of sports movements are to be criticized and discussed. First at all, it has to be drawn again the profile of the Italian Olympic Committee, which exerted a long-time hegemony on the whole national sports system. Furtherly, has to be deepened our relationship both with the commercial sector and with the public institutions of the State and their local  articulations (Regions, Districts, Municipalities).

　2) We are fighting for a democratic reform of the sports system, suggesting to institute a national agency specifically devoted to sport for the citizens and more clearly differentiated from the area of high performance sport (regarding Olympic Committee and Official Competitive Sports Federations). This approach is provoking a hard cultural and political conflict with the traditional establishment of the official sports system.

　3) In order to fund the sports movements, we propose to introduce a tax on the television royalties concerning spectacular sports events and to promote issue-cam-paign (against sedentary lifestyle, doping, smoke and in favor of active lifestyles, social activities oriented to the inclusions, and so on) directly supported by the local institutions. These problems linked to the updating of the institutional sports system are for us crucial, as well as the quest for a more visible and legitimated role of the sports voluntary system in the larger domain of the third sector.