How do you turn a national sports vision into local reality? For the Luxembourg Olympic and Sports Committee (COSL), one key answer is the structural transformation “IMPULS²”—targeting sport federations and clubs. Guided by this objective, COSL has commissioned TWIN as its strategic partner to engineer the implementation.
COSL is recognised as the central body of Luxembourg sport by the public authorities, as well as the National Olympic Committee (NOC) by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), bringing together all sports or sports-related federations, both Olympic and non-Olympic. Thus, COSL represents 58 federations with more than 125,000 members.
Professionalizing national sport structures at scale
Rooted in COSL’s 2025 sport framework Concept Intégré 2.0, the two-year IMPULS² project, funded by Œuvre Nationale, is dedicated to empowering the country’s federation and club structures. Its guiding principle—“Strong federations, successful clubs”—positions Luxembourg’s sports governing bodies as professional service providers and key drivers of development for their members.
Through a participatory design, IMPULS² is building a methodology that professionalizes the national sports movement from both the top-down and bottom-up simultaneously, structured around three programmatic pillars:
- analyzing field realities through concrete data,
- strengthening dialogue between sports stakeholders,
- and developing innovative solutions directly applicable to daily practice.
Building on the momentum of the recent Kick Off in the Maison des Sports, TWIN’s strategic role is to advise on the organizational and communication frameworks needed to bolster the capacities of federations—the vital link supporting over 1,200 clubs nationwide.
“The Kick Off sparked tremendous energy for a future-oriented collaboration. We greatly value TWIN’s strategic consulting as we build resilient sporting structures in Luxembourg. Alongside governing bodies and clubs, we are entering a new dimension of cooperation. IMPULS² is thus more than a project; it is a shared journey guided by attitude, trust, and genuine participation.”
Burkhard Disch
Responsable Promotion du Sport ⋅ COSL
