ACES assigns every year the recognitions of European 'Capital', 'City' and 'Town' of Sport. The allocation of these recognitions is led by the European organisation ACES, being aware that sport is a factor of a cohesive society, improvement in the quality of life, psycho-physical well-being and complete integration within social classes and hard to reach groups. ACES works with the European Commission and above all on the initiatives presented in the “White Paper of Sport”.

Therefore sport will have a strong focus on the Guild programme particularly at community level where local clubs and organisations are busy planning. We expect to have over 100 sporting events large and small during 2012 including the UK corporate games which will see over 5000 delegates arrive to compete in 22 sports over 3 days.