March 2021

Dear Friends in Dual Career,
the EAS Executive Committee wishes you a healthy 2021 Easter and brighter days ahead!
Europe is facing challenging lockdowns to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and all of us are more digital than ever. However, EAS is committed to keep sustaining the dual career of athletes and working hard on forthcoming initiatives, including the Annual Conference 2021 to be held in Lisbon next September. We warmly thank our Members and our co-Partners of ERASMUS+Sports Collaborative Partnerships for their efforts in keeping sustaining the student-athletes through innovative solutions at educational and/or sport levels. In fact, lots of interesting things happened and we will keep you informed through our website (www.dualcareer.eu) and by emails.
  • Recent activities
In agreement with the aims of the Network, in the past months of 2021, EAS carried out several virtual activities:
Support and organize a continuous exchange between institutions and experts across Europe working in the field of dual career.
EAS organized the second online EAS Cafè, which was dedicated to Dual Career Migrating Athletes. This bimonthly opportunity to discuss specific dual career issues has been greatly participated and appreciated. The third event will be organized in April and will focus on the role of media in support of student-athletes.
  • Create skill enhancement opportunities for people who are working in the field of dual career.
EAS participated to the online meetings and activities of the ongoing 2017 (e.g., EMPATIA) and 2018 (e.g., DONA, ED MEDIA, MTG, SoS, and Starting11) and 2020 (e.g., BRAVA-DC, ElCamp; and Para-Limits) Erasmus+ Cooperative Partnerships. From March 2020, the activities were carried on in a virtual modality due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Last February the AMID project submitted its final report, whereas the duration of the projects EMPATIA, DONA, EDMEDIA, MTG, and SoS was extended to the 2021.
  • Build up academic research work in the field of dual career.
In 2021, an update of the contribution of EAS to the European dual career through the ERASMUS+Sport Collaborative Partnerships has been published in the international journal Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte. Furthermore, two scientific manuscripts on the outcomes of the AMID, EMPATIA projects have neem published on the peer-review journalsHuman Movement, and Plos One, respectively. Finally, the outcomes of the MTG project have been presented at the scientific conference ‘Sport for the sustainability of society’ organized online by the University of Latvia.
Create a political environment that addresses the needs of talented athletes pursuing a dual career by cooperating with partners in sport and educational systems.
Fruitful partnerships with the European Commission and the Council of Europe have been consolidated through the participation in relevant events held in online modalities. In the next months EAS will contribute to the revision of the European Sport Charter and to the application to European partnerships.
  • Save the date
May 20, 2021 – Call for European proposals 2021
September 20-22, 2021 – EAS Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
In inviting you to follow the EAS official website and social media to keep informed on the ongoing activities, we remind you that you can contribute to the European dual career culture with relevant news.
We wish you and your loved ones all the best for the health and wellbeing.
on behalf of the EAS Executive Commitee
Laura Capranica
President
European Athlete as Student Network

On March 19, 2021, the EMPATIA educational platform was presented during the “Reconciling academic career and the competitive sporting commitments: The experimental educational project elite student-athlete” session of the online “Didacta Fair 2021”. This event is the most relevant meeting of the Italian school sector during which teachers, educators, school principals and sector experts participate in training, webinars, workshops, meetings, and updates on the school world (https://fieradidacta.indire.it/it/).

More than 80 regional coordinators, principals, and teachers attended the dual career session coordinated by dr. Paola Deiana from the Italian Ministry of Education (Manager of the Fifth Office – School sports policies). Prof. Federica Pilotti and Prof. Immacolata Messuri illustrated the findings and envisaged further development of the experimental project “sport at high school level”. In presenting the development of the dual career programme at the Sports High School Pacinotti-Archimede of Rome, prof. Paolo Cambone (physical education and sports teacher) highlighted the need to establish a fruitful dialogue between the teachers, the sports staff, and the parents. Thus, prof. Cambone introduced the educational platform of the EMPATIA project (https://edu.empatiasport.eu/it/), co-created and validated also in cooperation with the parents of the student-athletes enrolled at the Sports High School Pacinotti-Archimede of Rome. At the end of the dual career session, Dr. Deiana envisaged cooperation with EAS for the benefit of student-athletes

This season the federated teams could only compete for three weekends, and Associació Esportiva Carles Vallbona (Spain) thought of organizing an activity provided by the WOMAN project, which would motivate our players not to lose the desire to continue training and that they could share with professional players their sporting experiences.
On Sunday, February 14th, the children, cadets and youth players met with the two invited players through a video conference. For the children’s category we invited Aina Berbel, a player from Sant Cugat, and for the cadet and youth team she was Maria Segura, the current player of the Spanish national team and Stuttgart (Germany).
They told us curiosities about how they had lived the confinement, if they had trained at home in order to keep fit, if they had passed the COVID, how they are living the fact of traveling to make matches, how many PCRs had to be done, etc. In addition, they told us about their beginnings in volleyball and their careers.
DONA is based on the ERASMUS+ Collaborative Partnership program of EU. It is coordinated by the Associació Esportiva Carles Vallbona (Spain) and involves the Malta Volleyball Association (Malta), the Scuola di Pallavolo Anderlini Soc. Coop. Sociale SD (Italy), Istres Provence Volleyball (France), the De SportMaatschappij Foundation (Netherlands), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and the European Athlete as Student (EAS) Dual Career Network (Malta).

On March 3, 2021, the University of Limerick organized the online kick-off meeting of the EU-funded BRAVA-DC project (622824-EPP-1-2020-1-IE-SPO-SCP), which aims to enhance a dual career in the Corporate Social Responsibility of the European labour market.

During the three-year life course of the project, the BRAVA Team will encompass dual career, academic, and managerial experts from the University of Limerick (IRL – coordinators), European Platform for Sports and Innovation (BEL), Roma Tre University (ITA), Faculty of Sport and Physical Education University of Nis (SRB), University of Ljubljana (SLO), Fondazione Human Age Institute (ITA), the EUSA Institute (SLO), and the European Athlete as Student (MAL). In structuring an evidence- and eminence-based knowledge on DC employed athletes for the definition of a European conceptual framework fostering the alignment brand strategies and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies with DC, BRAVA-DC will contribute to the implementation of the European DC guidelines in the workplace.

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