The connections between sport and Europe are as diverse as they are different in their consequences. However, European legislation and policy seldom reveal their impact on sport at first glance. It is thus indispensable that the organized sport, as the biggest citizen movement in the community, represents its interests in Brussels and establishes itself as a contact for dialogue with EU institutions.

As a service institution, we define for our partners sport-relevant developments at the European level, illustrate, adapted to different target groups and with a focus on practical benefit, the structure of EU institutions, conceive individual EU portfolios and give advice on EU support programmes.

The EU Office of German Sports was established in 1993 at the initiative of the German Sports Confederation (DSB), the German National Olympic Committee (NOK) and the regional sports confederations (LSB). Since then, several European sport organisations have become cooperation partners of the office: the umbrella sport organisations of the Netherlands, France, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom as well as the organisation of the European Olympic Committees and the European Athletic Association.