EU Projects
Dual Career of Student- AthLetes with disabilities as a tool for Social Inclusion: The PARA-LIMITS project (PCS-OPS-SE-1-0202-1-PPE-312226)
The EU-funded Collaborative Partnership PARA-LIMITS addresses the promotion of dual career of disabled athletes and their social inclusion opportunities, which is a Dual Career priority rarely addressed. To provide a systematic solution for the challenges of conciliating sporting career and university studies of disabled athletes, a solid basis will be scientific research and information collected on dual career for athletes with disabilities.
On June 16 the University of Rome “Foro Italico” hosted a PARA-LIMITS webinar on the state of art of the barriers, difficulties and organisation that athletes with disabilities face in undertaking their Dual Career in five Member States (Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain).
The video of the event is available at: https://youtu.be/ADOeHqHnin4
Successful project meeting to develop the European Dual Career Toolkit to promote dual careers in top-class sport in “virtual” Hamburg.
On April 21 and 22, 2021 the fifth of a total of six meetings of the partner institutions Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS), CREPS Toulouse, Sportlycée Luxembourg (SL), European Athlete as Student (EAS) and the adh (German University Sport Federation), which are strongly supported by TW1N (Project management and consultancy) took place.
The adh as the host, represented by CEO Jörg Förster and project researcher Martin Santelmann, organized and moderated the two-day meeting with the active participation of the Hamburg University Sports Team, which ensured that the breaks were active.
In addition to the presentation and discussion of the dissemination strategy for 2021, the focus was primarily on the presentation and discussion of the results from the previous three-month test phase. This was planned, coordinated and evaluated by the adh in a leading role. 15 tools developed in the areas of “Manage”, “Train” and “Counsel” were checked for their feasibility and applicability by external European stakeholders as well as internal project partners. On the basis of the feedback obtained, the final refinement of the instruments on the European Dual Career Toolkit has now begun. It is already clear that all those involved in the dual career can look forward to the introduction of the toolkit at the end of this year.
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That project unites leading European institutions in dual career research and practice, to create the very first European Dual Career Toolkit. The lead is taken by the Amsterdam University of Applied Science, Partners are:
– Athletes as Students Network (EAS – Malta)
– Creps Toulouse (CREPS – France)
– German University Sport Federation (adh – Germany)
– Sportlycee Luxembourg (SplL – Luxembourg)
– Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS – England)
– TW1N (Project management and consultancy)
Aim of the project is to develop tailored tools to the specific demand of dual career service providers in the EU member states. Using an integrated approach, STARTING 11 empowers key actors in sport, education and the labour market to provide high quality services to athletes in all stages of their sporting career, reaching from school level to the stage of retirement from sport.
EAS is represented in that project by Prof. Laura Capranica (Foro Italico) and Ole Keldorf (Eliteidraet Scole Aarhus – ESAA). EAS Secretary General, Joerg Foerster, is representing EAS member adh within that project.
Further information on the EU project is available at https://starting11.eu/.
PIC:Matthias Hangst/SportstipendiumMRN
The Partners of the Erasmus+ funded project ELCAMP (A Self-employment Career Option for Elite Athletes: Innovative Sport-focused Entrepreneurship Bootcamp) met virtually for a kick-off meeting in March. EAS was represented by dr. Mojca Doupona and dr. Tibor Kozsla.
The ELCAMP project focus to strengthen the skills and competencies of elite and Paralympic athletes on sport-focused entrepreneurship with innovative methods and connecting athletes among themselves and with other people interested in entrepreneurship. The project objectives directly address the target group of EAS. EAS will be actively involved in the pilot implementation phase of the project. EAS will also lead to the dissemination of project outputs both at the athlete’s level and at the level of sports organizations in Europe.
EL CAMP partners are Collective Innovation AS (Norway) in cooperation with European Paralympic Committee (Austria), Fundacion Universitaria San Antonio (Spain), Hogskolen I Molde (Norway), Lietuvos Sporto Universitetas (Lithuania), Olimpijski Komite Slovenije Zdruzenje Sportnih Zvez (Slovenia).
On April 6 the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace is celebrated having a white card as a symbol to emphasize the positive values of sport, which unify individuals regardless of gender, ethnic, social or religious differences.
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, the SOS project celebrates the Sports Schools for Development and Peace event (@peaceandsport, @SportOpensSchool, #WhiteCard, #April6, #OnlyTogether) with a video involving students from the Hungarian (Kolcsey Ferenc Gimnazium, Budapest), Italian (IIS Newton Pertini, Camposampietro), Portuguese (Externato Cooperativo da Benedita), and Romanian (Liceum cum Program Sportiv, Bacau) Partner high schools.
Through its involvement in the European ERASMUS+Sport Collaborative Partnership More Than Gold (603346-EPP-1-2018-1-LV-SPO-SCP), EAS contributed to raising awareness on the dual career of athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thus, a study aimed to investigate the student-athlete’s capability to face the academic, sport, and social challenges during the 2019 lockdown and to disclose novel aspects of dual careers has been published on the prestigious peer-review journal Frontiers in Psychology. Four hundred sixty-seven student-athletes from 11 countries completed an ad-hoc survey. The findings substantiate the relevant role of a dual career in coping with the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic through home training and e-learning valuable resources. The full text is available here.
- Recent activities
- Create skill enhancement opportunities for people who are working in the field of dual career.
- Build up academic research work in the field of dual career.
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Successful Validation of the English and Italian EMPATIA Educational Platform/Website for Parents/Guardians of Elite Athletes as Students
Based on the evidence- (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7581327/) and eminence- (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243354) knowledge gathered from Parents/Guardians of Elite Athletes as Students and European Dual Career experts, the EMPATIA platform/website presents in one place crucial information, hints & tips and important documents to empower Parents/Guardians of Dual Career athlete. The content is organized into 4 parts named: WHY, WHAT, HOW & WHERE and is available in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Slovenian.
At present, 33 Irish and 30 Italian Parents participated in online evaluation workshops and provided their positive feedbacks useful for its implementation. A Parent commented “If this website were available when I was an athlete, I probably wouldn’t have had to choose between continuing my studies and continuing my sport career!! I’m happy for my son!”
In the next weeks, the French, Portuguese, and Slovenian workshops will be organized to finalize the validation and implementation of the website.
REG. NUMBER: Voluntary Organisation registration VO/1270
PIC NUMBER: 913459865
Email: info@dualcareer.eu