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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