OFFICE

European Cultural Route Of Sport

Burçak MADRAN

President

Museographer, President of ICOM-ICMAH (International Committee of Museums and Collections of Archeology and History, which also includes sports museums)

Thierry TERRET

President of the Scientific Council

Vice-Rector of French Polynesia, Historian

Former rector and ministerial delegate for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Ministry of National Education and Higher Education and former president of the International Association for the History of Sport and Physical Education

Alain SCHMITT

Secretary General

Customer Experience Leader at Grid Solutions, GE Vernova.

Eric FLORAND

Treasurer

Sports professional, Co-founder of the Alice Milliat Foundation

THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL

  • Its role

    The members of the Scientific Council make recommendations based on documentation and their knowledge and experience. This requirement is found both in the writing phase of the application file and in the deployment, development and evaluation of the project once it is launched. The Council then undertook two main tasks:


    • Manage the geographical and thematic development of the project
    • Define the associated research programmes, both in their scientific dimensions and in their educational perspectives


    The creation of a scientific council responds to the need for a cultural itinerary not to be based solely on economic interests but also on deep and lasting interactions with the world of research.

  • Its president

    The presidency of the Scientific Council was entrusted to Professor Thierry Terret, former president of the International Society for the History of Sport and Physical Education, former President and Ministerial Delegate to the Olympic and Paralympic Games and author of some 70 books on the history of sport.

  • The scientific committee

    The scientific committee of the European Cultural Route of Sport has 11 people - six women and five men - from 10 European countries, experts in different and complementary fields, all more or less directly related to sport.

Scientific Council of the ECROS Association

Name Expertise Pays Profession
Thierry Terret (President) History France Specialist in Sports History
Antonella Bellutti Sports Sciences Italy 1996 Olympic Individual Pursuite Champion
Hagen Bossdorf Marketing Germany Director of a film about Emil Zapotek, collaborates with sponsors and event organizers
Olga Cygan Sculptor Poland Fencing champion, regularly works with the Polish NOC on museographies
Jens Holm Tourism Denmark Designer of the Masters Games
John M Geraint Architecture Wales Baron de Coubertin Gold Medal / Member of the UIA / Consultant for Populous
Marie José Lallart Humanitarian France Worked at UNESCO, specialist in disability in sport and the integration of women
Simona Petracovschi Sociology Romania Participated in the Erasmus+ Sport project "Where are all the Women? Shining a light on the visibility of women’s sport in the media""
Lamija Aleckovic Media specialist Croatia Digital Journalism Advisor
Kostas Vernikos Journalism Greece Member of the International Olympic Academy
Yasmin Meichtry IOC Switzerland IOC Heritage Department, worked on the Le Corbusier route