Michael has been involved in sport for over 50 years. As a long-standing chairman of a sports club and member of the district board of the BLSV district of Munich, he is just as familiar with club structures and association structures as he is with the interlinking of sport in local and state politics.
In 2018, he founded the ‘IG (interest group) Sport - making sport important’ in Munich in order to raise the profile of grassroots sport as the most important municipal social project. As a board member of the ‘Munich Summer Games’ association, he is committed to the idea of decentralised, sustainable Olympic Games in Germany.
More than 25 years ago, he was part of a team that drew up an eco-balance sheet for his then employer, an insurance company. At that time, this topic was still considered rather exotic. He has been committed to this complex topic ever since.
In 2019, he joined what is now Sym GmbH to help develop an audit that would enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to determine their impact on the environment. The ÖRS audit was born. In the meantime, the Sym Community has developed into a community of 300 companies that are interlinked and supportive of the development of a sustainable and regenerative economy.
In 2023, Andi Kopp drew up a sustainability concept for his club as part of a cooperation between the BLSV and sportainable. When he came across Leocor gGmbH sat the Sustainability Day organised by the Munich Sports Office in 2024, it was clear that he would now also be dealing with the topic professionally. Together with Martina Bonertz, he is currently developing a low-threshold sustainability counselling service for sports clubs for Leocor gGmbH.
His aim is not only to develop sports clubs sustainably in their diversity and emotionality, but also to use them as effective multipliers for democracy and sustainability.

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