July 2025
– A dynamic programme with keynote speakers, interactive sessions and workshops designed to tackle real dual career challenges, opportunities, and strategies.
– Updated dual career insights and practical learning of resources from European dual career projects for developing capabilities be applied to your local, national, and international contexts.
– Build connections and collaborations across the dual career ecosystem that extend beyond the Conference for future European projects.
– Celebrate with the dual career community the 10th Anniversary of the European Week of Sport (https://sport.ec.europa.eu/european-week-of-sport).
– Together we can advance the European dual career culture for the benefit of the European sport
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Dear friends of Dual Career,
Dual career represents a tremendous opportunity to empower sportspersons through an effective mentor-mentee relationship, which is the key aim of the ERASMUS+Sport DC MENTOR project (101132309).
On behalf of the EAS Executive Committee, I inform you that the 17th EAS Virtual Cafè on “Dual Career Mentors and Mentees getting ready for the next academic year” will be held on Monday July 7, 2025 (from 12:00 CET).
12:00 Welcome – Prof. Alejandro Leiva Arcas, UCAM, Murcia, Spain
Secretary of the Faculty of Sport at UCAM; Member of the Erasmus+DC Mentor project.
12:10 21st Century skills for dual career athletes – Kivanc Semiz, PhD, RTEU, Rize,Turkiye
Associate Professor of physical education and sport sciences at RTEU with a research focus on dual careers in sport, physical education with digital technology, and the role of social media in shaping perceptions and practices in the field.
12:25 Mentors-mentees interaction: An innovative approach – Gamze Aydin, Project coordinator at Sports Tech Turkiye, Kirklareli, Turkiye
Coordinator of EU-funded projects at Sports Tech Türkiye with an interest in sports technology for dual-career development to empower student-athletes through education and mentoring on new and future skills in the sports industry.
12:40 The DC MENTOR platform: Future skills for dual career – Kamil Kazim Sari, Collective Innovation, Oslo, Norway.
Board Member of Teach The Future (TTF) Global and Member of TTF Turkey Hub, World Future Society, Association of Professional Futurists, and Global Sports Innovation Centers, acting as consultant and investor on sports technology and AI applications in Oslo and Madrid, and satellite-based global connectivity infrastructures in Italy.
12:55 General discussions and concluding remarks
You can join the Zoom Meeting at : https://uni-lj-si.zoom.us/j/95198051181
Information will be available also at www.dualcareer.eu. Feel free to share this information with your colleagues, students, coaches, sports managers, etc.
Should you have any additional request or question, you can contact me.
We wish you a great week and we look forward to meeting you for this important dual career event!
On June 30, 2025, EAS in cooperation with Mr. Envic Galea (IJF Academy) organized the Smart Start for Dual Career (SS4DC) motivational workshop at the Malta Judo Academy. Overall, 29 participants attended the event, 13 youth student-athletes and 16 adults (parents/judo coaches and judo managers). In a country where dual career is at its infancy level, the Smart Start 4 DC motivational workshop represented an important event to raise the awareness of the youth athlete’s right to combine academic and sport commitments and to prepare them for future transition at higher education and/or working levels.
Initially, basic information on the importance of dual career for personal and future professional perspectives of athletes was provided. Some of the youth athletes as students indicated their favorite profession and the relative requirements. A short discussion regarding the relevance of soft skills in managing their future career followed. In presenting the aims, structure and contents of the SS4DC platform, the participants particularly appreciated the possibility to freely navigate the modules and the project website (www.SS4DC) containing more information of their interest. Surely, the presence of parents and coaches was crucial to engage the most relevant actors of the athletes’ entourage in supporting the efforts of the youth athletes during their dual career paths. In particular, their interest in the SS4DC platform and its contents might further support the future engagement of youth athletes in the mooc SS4DC educational programme, which is expected next September 2025.
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