EU Projects
November 1st, London, Great Britain: ‘TASS DUAL CAREERS IN SPORT FORUM’
Thursday, 1stNovember 2018, at he British Library, London. The TASS Dual Careers in Sport Forum, in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University and Loughborough University, provides a platform to exchange and explore new areas of dual career research. Organized by TASS, the Forum will bring together researchers from across the UK and Europe to present, discuss and exchange developments and ideas in the field of dual career. See the provisional program.
Overview: The TASS Dual Career Research Bursary is funding of up to £1,000 awarded to a graduate student or young researcher studying dual careers. The aim of the Bursary is to support the development of new ideas and innovation in the field of dual career research, or to allow the dissemination of research to allow practical application. Up to 3 Bursaries maybe awarded. Researchers are encouraged to submit a proposal for a short-term project and a select number will be invited to present their ideas at the TASS Dual Careers in Sport Forum. The successful candidate(s) will be awarded with the Bursary to support their research or dissemination.
Apply: Applications are made by completing the table below and returning this document to Guy Taylor at info@tass.gov.ukby a deadline of Monday 29thOctober 2018.
November 13th-14th, Salzburg, Austria: ‘High Level Table on Learning Mobility’
Meeting of European Commission Expert Group “Skills and Human Resources Development in Sport” (XG HR). Regarding the agenda, this meeting will focus on 3 topics:
- Coaches (drafting of the guidelines on the basis of the background document – to be distributed);
- Qualifications in sport (exchanging of good practices – national examples of inclusion sport qualification into NQF and EQF)
For more information please contact:
Organisation (AT colleagues) – Claus Farnberger (Claus.farnberger@sport.gv.at)
AGM system and reimbursement, participants – Astrid.INDEKEU@ec.europa.eu Nais.RIGOLLET@ec.europa.eu
Content, agenda – Agata.DZIARNOWSKA@ec.europa.eu
Important info: please confirm your participation by email to: Nais.RIGOLLET@ec.europa.eu before 26 October.
DECEMBER 12, 2018, FREE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPTIMIZING ATHLETES’ EMPLOYABILITY
Brussels Health Campus, Jette (Brussels), Auditorium P. Brouwer; Organizer: B-WISER, BE A WINNER IN ELITE SPORT AND EMPLOYMENT BEFORE AND AFTER ATHLETIC RETIREMENT
With the support from the Erasmus+ Sport Programme of the European Union, a consortium of universities, national Olympic and Paralympic committees, and elite sport centres from six EU Member States (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden) together with international experts in elite sport, career counselling, employment and HR, initiated the project ‘Be a Winner In elite Sport and Employment before and after athletic Retirement’: B-WISER. By identifying the existing support structures and measures, the competencies required by athletes, and the added value for employers, B-WISER aims at optimizing the employability and employment of athletes in three specific career stages: (1) when they are active in elite sport, (2) when they have retired from elite sport and are preparing for a first-time employment, and (3) when they are employed in their post-athletic career.
On behalf of the B-WISER consortium we are pleased to invite you to join us for our international dedicated symposium on December 12 at the Health Campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium. Apart from international experts’ reflections on the results, the value and implications of the B-WISER project, the programme offers parallel workshops where participants learn how specific tools and instruments are used in working with active and former elite athletes. The final programme will be communicated soon.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Brussels for an exciting international symposium on optimizing athletes’ employability! While participation is free, pre-registration is required.Registration runs until December 1st.
The project coordinators, Paul Wylleman, Koen De Brandt, Simon Defruyt & Sofie Smismans
EU funded projects
On September 24, 2018, EACEA published the results of the selected proposals for ERASMUS+ SPORT 2018 to be started on January 1, 2019. Out of 18 proposal under the Priority 2 – Dual career & Volunteering, 15 projects have been funded specifically on dual career, with EAS Partner of :
Dual Career for wOmeN Athletes – DONA (Coordinator: AE CARLES VALLBONA, Spain);
Media as a channel of Athletes’ Dual Careers promotion and education – EDU-MEDIA (Coordinator: LIETUVOS SPORTO UNIVERSITETAS, Lithuania);
More than Gold (Coordinator: LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATE, Latvia);
STARTING 11 “The European Dual Career Toolkit” (Coordinator: STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands).
Furthermore, under the Priority 1 (HEPA & European Week of Sport) EAS is Partner of the project Sport Opens School – SOS (Coordinator: CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO SPORTIVO – CUSPADOVA – ASSOCIAZIONE SPORTIVA DILETTANTISTICA, Italy).
More information on the selected ERASMUS+ SPORT 2018 proposals ia available at https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/actions/sport/collaborative-partnerships_en
September and October had been busy weeks for EAS board members. Added to the 15th EAS Annual Conference a lot of meetings, conferences, workshops took place related with “Dual Career” projects, researches and policy frame work.
05th-07th September 2018 – AMID Project Meeting in Ljubljana
The 2nd meeting of the EU project AMID has been held in Ljubljana (Slovenia) to discuss the data on migrating athletes collected online and on-site during the 2018 EUSA Games in Coimbra, Portugal. The meeting has been very fruitful and further steps of the project and dissemination activities have been envisaged. In particular, the AMID Team agreed to present the findings during the 2018 Annual EAS Conference in Coimbra, Portugal.
The Slovenian Partner also organized a rich social event, inviting the AMID Team to attend two international sports events: the soccer match UEFA Nations League Slovenia vs Romania and the men’s volleyball match USA vs Canada at the Ljubljana Volleyball Challenge organized right before FIVB World Championship to be held in Italy.
Athletic migration: Dual Career and qualification in sports (AMID) is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. It promotes and supports good governance in sport and Dual Careers of athletes by building a network for exchange of best practices, by developing skills and competences in Dual Career, especially addressing migrating athletes.
More information on the AMID project is available at
https://blogi.eoppimispalvelut.fi/amid/articles/
11th-12th September 2018 – EMPATIA Project Meeting in Coimbra
On September 11 and 12, University of Coimbra hosted the 2nd coordination meeting of the EU-funded EMPATIA project – “Educational Model for Parents of Athletes in Academics”.
The representatives of the project partners met in the “Biblioteca Geral” library, discussing the project status, data gathered so far from the literature review and focus groups. The group also discussed the next research phase and steps in the project. EMPATIA project was also presented at the EAS annual Conference and General Assembly, which took place at the University of Coimbra from September 12-14, 2018.
EMPATIA project is co-funded through the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union as a Sports Collaborative Partnership. Its aim is to promote and implement dual career, especially targeting parents and guardians of talented and elite athletes, having primary responsibilities in supporting the combination of sport and education careers of their progeny for a holistic development as future European citizens and employees.
27th September 2018 – High Level Round Table during the Event “European Week of Sport Beyond Borders”
EAS President prof. Laura Capranica was invited to participate in a High Level Round Table during the event “European Week of Sport Beyond Borders” in Belgrade, Serbia, on September 27, 2018. The event celebrated The European Week of Sport held for the first time in this country (September 23- 30, 2018) with the support of the European Union and organized by the Olympic Committee of Serbia and the Ministry of youth and sport of the Republic of Serbia.
Health, well-being, societal and economic aspects of sports have been discussed with the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Tibor Navracsics, the Member of the European Parliament Bodgan Venta, the Sport Unit officers of the European Commission Yves Le Lostecque and Agata Dziarnowska, and high personalities and policy makers of the Member States and Balcan Countries.
At the end of the high-level round table, most of the participants engaged in a futsal tournament making alive the #BEACTIVE goal. Further information is available at:
https://europa.rs/european-week-of-sport-for-the-first-time-in-serbia/?lang=en
05th-6th October 2018 – “Olympism in Action” in Buenos Aires
On October 5-6, 2018 in Buenos Aires the International Olympic Committee (IOC) organized the Forum “Olympism in Action” right before the Youth Olympic Games.
As a stakeholder of the Olympic Movement, the President of EAS was invited to attend plenary sessions and to participate in the workshops addressing relevant related to sport, including education. Further information is available at
REG. NUMBER: Voluntary Organisation registration VO/1270
PIC NUMBER: 913459865
Email: info@dualcareer.eu