The last national workshop of the RINGS project took place on 2 December at the Olympic Preparation Center in Rome. 

The workshop gathered an unprecedented number of representatives of national federations, national sport associations, sport promotion organisations and the NOC of Italy (CONI), for a high-level event on strategic management of sport organisations. 

Following an opening speech by CONI President Giovanni Malago and CONI Secretary General Carlo Mornati, Eva Rebmann presented the RINGS project, while Marco Arpino and Paolo Pizzo described CONI’s involvement in the project. The morning session was concluded by a speech by Ms. Silvia Salis, Deputy Director of CONI.  

Participants then heard from Francesco Ricci Bitti, President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, who shared his insights on the strategic management of sport organisations, based on his life-long experience in the matter. 

About the RINGS project 

The RINGS project, led by the EOC EU Office and co-funded by the Erasmus+ Sport programme, is running from January 2020 to December 2022 and focuses on the strategic management of NOCs (ie., change management, public affairs and communications, governance of NOCs). The last phase of the project is to organise national training workshops in each of the 11 partner NOCs. Each of them focuses on the specific themes that are relevant to the national context