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Jean Monnet EU Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Rijeka Summer School

Summer school

This is a joint initiative of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law (Croatia) and the Sport&EU Association. The Event is co-organised under the Jean Monnet Chair on Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law and is a Jean Monnet Summer School. 

The Summer School will take place over three days on Friday 4th, Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th July 2025 (in person in Rijeka, Faculty of Law (Hahlic 6) & online via MS Teams) 

On Day 1 (Friday 4th July) there will be a round table and international conference.

The Event will start (9.30 AM) with a round table and a presentation of the book:  The European Model of Sport, Myth or Reality? (Eds. Borja Garcia Garcia & Vanja Smokvina), Routledge, 2025 and will continue with two panels, on o Sports Law and one on Sports Diplomacy.

Days 2 and 3 (7&8th July) will be devoted to the summer school lectures, with topics including sports diplomacy, athlete’s rights, EU sports law.

The Summer School is free of charge and participants can claim 4 ECTS credits when completing the programme.

The participants will need to attend the whole Summer School with the conference on Day 1 and seven lessons (exceptionally, missing one lesson can be accepted upon special approval) for Day 2 & 3, and for each lesson give the answers on questions raised by the respective speakers in a form which should be sent to the Organizers a few days after the lesson. 

Summer school Speakers include high calibre academics: Richard Parrish (Edge Hill University, UK and Sport&EU Honorary Chair), Borja García García (Loughborough University, UK & Sport&EU Executive Director), Simon Rofe (University of Leeds, UK), Jurgen Mittag & Maximillian Seltmann  (Cologne Sport University, Germany), Carmen Pérez González (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), David McArdle (Stirling University Law School, UK)

Registration details

Registration and attendance is FREE of charge

 

After registering the participants who will attend online, will receive a link in a separate email.

4 - 8 Jul 2025 Rijeka, Croatia