13th Annual International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects

Conference Dates:


Start Date: 2013-07-08
Last Day: 2013-07-11






Conference Contact Info:


Contact Person: Gregory Papanikos
Email: atiner@atiner.gr
Address:

TBA, Athens, Greece

Conference Description:











The The Sports Research Unit of the Athens Institute
for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 13th Annual
International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing
& Social Aspects, 8-11 July 2013, Athens, Greece. For further
details, please go to the conference website:
http://www.atiner.gr/sports.htm. The registration fee is €300 (euro),
covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks and
conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local
luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.
In addition, a number of special events will be organized: A Greek
night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise in the
Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to
Delphi.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars
and students of all areas of sports. Participants can present on sports
topics within broad streams of research areas. Areas of interest include
(but are not confined to): the Impacts of Olympic Games, Professional
Sports, Sport-Scheduling, Sports Tourism, Sports Law, Sports
Communication, Sports & Media, Sports & Society, Sport
Psychology, Sports Violence, Sports & Education, Sports &
Ethics, Sport Technology, Sports and Computer Applications, Sports &
Information Technology, Sport Services and Sports History. Also,
special sessions will be organized for individual sports (soccer,
football, baseball, basketball, handball, ice hockey, tennis, car
racing, gymnastics etc). Please submit a 300-word abstract by email,
atiner@atiner.gr, by 1 March 2013 to: Mr. Christos Anagnostopoulos,
Lecturer, Coventry University Business School, U.K. & Head, Sports
Research Unit, ATINER, 8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens,
Greece. Tel.: + 30 210 363-4210 Fax: + 30 210 3634209. Please include:
Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional
Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe
the subject of your submission. Please use the abstract submitting form
available at http://www.atiner.gr/2013/FORM-SPO.doc. Decisions are
reached within 4 weeks.

If you want to participate without
presenting a paper, i.e. organize a mini conference or a panel
(session), chair a session, review papers to be included in the
conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or
any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T.
Papanikos, (gtp@atiner.gr), President, ATINER.

The Athens
Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as
an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum,
where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet
in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future
developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more
than 200 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also
published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists
of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each
Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various
small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more
than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER's objectives.
The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic
activities. If you want to become a member, please download the form
(membership form). For more information or suggestions, please send an
email to: info@atiner.gr.