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On Wednesday December 7th, the Center for Sports & Business at SSE held a joint alumni event together with the ESSEC Business School and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management. This digital event was a collaboration with the Germany SSE Alumni Hub. It was the first time that these three leading European sports centres hosted a joint event.

On Tuesday, November 29th, the Center for Sports and Business held a partnership day at the Stockholm School of Economics. The day covered a broad array of topics such as an external environment analysis and trends we see globally, strategic challenges for Swedish sports, strategic development as well as operational focus and measuring of sustainability. During this successful day, representatives from Sweden's major sports, hockey, football, golf, trot racing and skiing as well as key individuals from the political sphere gathered and had insightful discussions.

On November 11, we had the pleasure of welcoming the celebrated sports journalist Olof Lundh to a lunch event to talk about his brand new book Templet I Öknen (The Temple in the Desert). The event was co-organized by SSE Sport Initiative and SSE Literary Agenda.

On Friday October 7th, the SSE Sport Initiative held its final event of the Sports & Inclusiveness Week with a fireside chat between Center Director Martin Carlsson-Wall and the General Secretary of the Swedish Golf Association. The topic of the event was The Swedish Golf Federation under Change

On Thursday October 6th, the SSE Sport Initiative had its third event of the Sports & Inclusiveness Week with a workshop by sports research experts at SSE - Martin Carlsson Wall, Director of The Center for Sports & Business and Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting, and Fanny Almersson, PhD Student at the Department of Accounting. The topic of the evening workshop was The Scientific Support of Diversifying Sports Organizations.

On Tuesday October 4th, the SSE Sport Initiative had its second event of the Sports & Inclusiveness Week with a lunch panel discussion with representatives from the EPOS network, Karin Torneklint and the Swedish Ski Association on the topic of The United Sports Front for Inclusion.

On Monday October 3rd, the SSE Sport Initiative kicked off its Sports & Inclusiveness Week with a lunch lecture by Karin Torneklint, former Head Coach of the Swedish Athletics Federation, on the topic of Insights from a Career in Sports Federations.

The Stockholm School of Economics' SSE Sport Initiative officially launched this week with a lunch seminar on Tuesday, August 9th, on the topic of "Combining Passion and Rationality - Finding a Dream Career within Sports". Over 50 newly admitted SSE Bachelor Students attended the event, which was fully booked within a day.

On June 29th, the Center for Sports and Business held an advisory board meeting taking place at the Stockholm School of Economics. This meeting brought together members of the Center for Sports & Business as well as members of our advisory board to discuss strategic issues for the Center’s future development.

At the beginning of June, the Center for Sports and Business was invited to the 4th Edition of Swedish Elite Football’s (SEF) Network Arena, a 2-day conference that took place in Berlin, Germany.