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This edition includes the Doha GOALS Forum, a female football festival in Lebanon, a mental health in sport conference and an international conference on sport and society.

Doha GOALS Forum 2015

Participants – public and private sector, NGOs, athletes, and business leaders – were able to use the Doha GOALS Forum as a platform to present ideas for reform in sports, as well as ideas on how sports can have a wider effect on policy agendas. The forum was held on 25 – 27 July.




2015 Arab Female Football Festival
Prior to the FIFA U-17 World Cup held in Jordan in 2016, the Lebanese Girls Football Academy (GFA) and the German NGO, DISCOVER FOOTBALL, hosted the first international female football festival in Lebanon on 25 July – 2 August.



Mental Health in Sport Conference
The conference on 28 July brought together high profile sporting bodies, coaches, medical professionals and others involved in player welfare and performance to discuss key issues around mental health and wellbeing in the sport industry.



Sixth International Conference on Sport and Society
Held in parallel with the Pan-American Games, this event provided an opportunity to highlight to the academic world the vast array of research that is being undertaken by scholars of sport in the Caribbean, South America and Central America. The conference was held on 30 – 31 July.

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