Insteek
In 2025 vieren we de vijftigste verjaardag van het Europees Handvest voor de Sport voor Allen, ondertekend door alle Europese ministers bevoegd voor Sport (op 20 maart 1975 te Brussel)
Publicatie
Delheye, P. (2004). Als Mozes niet naar de berg gaat… Een interview met Armand Lams, de missionaris van de Sport voor Allen. Sportimonium (2), 36-41.
Abstract
“Armand Lams, director-general of BLOSO (Administration of Physical Education, Sport and Outdoor Recreation) from 1969 till 1991, was the master mind behind the Sport for All concept. He launched a series of innovative initiatives to promote the democratisation of sports participation both on the Flemish and on the European level. As chairman of the Sports section of the Committee for Out-of-School Education of the Council of Europe, he organised a three days brainstorming in Bruges, which would lay the basis for the future Sport for All policy in Europe. He stressed the need for a European information and research centre for Sport for All, which resulted in the establishment of the Clearing House in Brussels in 1971. In 1975 another objective was actualized: the Sport for All Charter, subscribed by all European Ministers responsible for Sport. Two years later the European Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) was created, which meant that sport was no longer under the tutelage of Culture in the Council of Europe. Lams’ visionary promotion campaigns have profoundly changed the sporting scene in Flanders. His sports philosophy was based on three pillars: 1. adequate facilities, 2. professional leadership and 3. sound programmes. Under his leadership sport was democratised, professionalized and furnished with a Flemish identity.”
Keywords
Sport voor Allen, oprichting BLOSO (nu Sport Vlaanderen), autonoom Vlaams sportbeleid, sportpromotie
