President of the CONI

I sincerely salute CSAIn, Centers for Company and Industry Sports, and the city of Riccione, in expression of the satisfaction on behalf of Italian sports, for the city’s designation to host the 20th edition of the European Company Sport Games, to be held in Italy from June 3-7, 2015.

 

I believe that the EFCS, the European organization which promotes sports for businesses and employees, has made a sound choice, carefully examining several criteria essential to the location of the event, which this year will instead be held in Prague. CSAIn will therefore have the opportunity to present its own articulated program: gathering at least 8,000 people divided among 500 groups from 25 different countries, for an event which proposes to endorse competition, fun, culture, and socialization.

 

CSAIn is synonymous with sports, but also with culture and recreation; it is a world in which values such as voluntarism, solidarity, and love of nature and the environment are prized assets in daily life.This organization for the promotion of sports has a presence all across the continent as it branches out into regional and provincial committees. It seeks to endorse sports for everyone, beginning with the basics, through a targeted and planned system of promotion.

 

Thanks to the sensitivity shown with regard to inclusion, for the first time, in 2015, the program of the European Company Sport Games will also feature Paralympic competitions which will augment the event’s content. It will be the best way to organize a unique edition of the event: directors, employees, young people and laborers of corporate groups united by their common passion for sports, able to exalt the significance of athletic competition as an undeniable uniting element.

 

Giovanni Malagò
President of the Italian National Olympic Committee