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Ten percent of all unintentional injuries across Europe are due to sporting activities. The world of sport is diverse, covering activities and exercises for pre-school children, physical education at school, organised activities in sports clubs, individually organised leisure time activities, top athletics, and exercises for the elderly.
There are many possibilities to prevent sports’ injuries such as modifying and improving equipment, rules, training methods and services. However certain barriers need to be overcome such as low interest from sport club administration, lack of communication channels to reach active sport persons and, finally, the risk-taking model of top athletes.
In 1999 a group of dedicated institutions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland decided to start a new series of conferences on sports safety. These were German-speaking and were held in Munich in 2000, Vienna in 2002 and in Switzerland in 2004. The goal to involve adminstrations of sports clubs (directly in these conferences), however, was not very successful. Therefore it is intended that the dedicated institutions, now responsible for the former conferences, will transform itself into a European network aimed at organising European conferences on sports safety from the year 2006 onwards.
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