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In the scope of the project A Self-employment Career Option for Elite Athletes: Innovative Sport-focused Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (ELCAMP), on February 22, EAS organised in Rome two focus groups with the aim to evaluate curriculum for entrepreneurship education.

The purpose of the curriculum is to promote entrepreneurship education through the introduction of entrepreneurial competencies in the curriculum of sports sciences.

The following module titles are covered in this curriculum: 

1. Entrepreneurial Knowledge
2. Entrepreneurial Attitude
3. Entrepreneurial Management
4. Entrepreneurial Social and Opportunity Making Competence
5. SportsTech – Sport Technologies

The focus group participants praised the efforts of the project partners to help empower DC athletes to gain new knowledge in the field of sports entrepreneurship and thus help athletes to enter the labor market more easily.

Focus group participants praised the efforts of project partners – The Collaborative Partnership is coordinated by Collective Innovation AS (Norway) and includes the Hogskolen I Molde (Norway), Olimpijski Komite Slovenije Zdruzenje Sportnih Zvez (Slovenia), Fundacion Universitaria San Antonio (UCAM, Spain) Lietuvos Sporto Universitetas (Lithuania), Mobile Adventure Spolka Z Ograniczona Odpowiedzialnoscia (Poland), and EAS as Partners – to help DC athletes acquire new skills in sports entrepreneurship, making it easier for athletes to enter the job market.

Focus group participants provided some substantive recommendations for further work, which can be summarized in the following recommendations for improving the curriculum:

• Interactive tasks should include scenarios,
• level of knowledge of the participants should be indicated in the entry level.
• a definition of the terms is suggested (i.e. What is self-consciousness?).
• some modules will require more than 8 hours , therefore is recommended to split two moduls into three).
• The order of the modules could be changed in a logical way
• Because arget groups are different in some modules – they must be defined and coherent.
• to specify the Olympic- Paralympic.
• The introduction is perhaps too lengthy, some references are missing.
• Economic and budgetary issues should be made clearer.

The next and final step of the ELCAMP project will take place on March 29 and 30 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where a piloting seminar and a two-day workshop will be organised, as well as the preparation of the online test.