The pilot projects to set up positions of CSO´s in sports was launched with 5 squad- builder countries. The partners of the project are Austria, Belgium, Israel, Norway and Portugal. The latest updating resulted in the recent inclusion of Croatia.

Each country is represented by the National government officer responsible for sport policies, who work with a national Core Group, composed by main stakeholders, and a Steering Committee with other sport and safeguarding stakeholders. Every country has the support of national consulting experts.

The National consulting is responsible, in coordination with the national governmental officer, to

•  Organize round tables with the Core Group (selected organizations to represent Safeguarding in Sports National Policies)

• Collect and analyse data from these meetings. Complementary data is also provided by the Steering Committee (a larger group of National partner organizations)

• Design the national road map for the establishment of a national policy regarding safeguarding children in sports that include the creation of a network of Child Safeguarding Officers.

Despite some common procedures, each pilot project will run in various ways (e.g.: under the aegis of the authorities in charge of sport, within sport organisations, in collaboration with the child protection authorities, at regional level), depending on its own specific context.