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EU funded ERASMUS+ SPORT Collaborative Partnerships starting in 2021
On October 20, 2020, EACEA published the results of the selected proposals for ERASMUS+ SPORT to be started on January 1, 2021. Under the EC priority on sports “Promote education in and through sport with special focus on skills development, as well support the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Dual Careers of Athletes” EAS is partner of three Collaborative Partnerships:
BRAVA-DC: Brand Value Alignment through Dual Career, Coordinated by University of Limerick (Ireland) in cooperation with Aarhus Kommune (Denmark), European Platform for Sports and Innovation (Belgium), EUSA Institite (Slovenia), Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Nis (Serbia), Fondazione Human Age (Italy), Università diegli Studi Roma Tre (Italy), Univerza V Ljubljani (Slovenia), and EAS (Malta). The primary focus of BRAVA-DC is on enhancing the European workplace environment so the circumstances and challenges of dual career athletes and coaches can more effectively be accommodated. The BRAVA-DC project aims are: 1) to structure an evidence and eminence knowledge base on dual career for employee-athletes and 2) to define and enable European guidelines which support DC in the workplace and which facilitate appropriate brand alignment strategies and CSR policies which value DC. Accordingly, the overarching aim of the BRAVA-DC project is to implement the EU Guidelines on Dual Careers of Athletes.
EL CAMP: A Self-employment Career Option for Elite Athletes: Innovative Sport-focused Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, coordinated by 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). The overall objectives of ELCAMP are to support the implementation of the EU Guidelines Dual Careers of Athletes through the development of a sports-focused entrepreneurship program and to contribute to innovative approaches to sports-focused entrepreneurship through an entrepreneurship bootcamp curriculum, training modules, toolkits and learning, mentoring and networking platform in line with talented, elite and retired athletes needs and expectations.
PARA-LIMITS: Dual Career of Student- Athletes with Disabilities as a Tool for Social Inclusion, coordinated by the Fundacion Universitaria San Antonio (Spain) in cooperation with Collective Innovation AS (Norway), European Paralympic Committee (Austria), Fundacion Once Para la Cooperacione Inclusion Social de Personas (Spain), Instituto Politecnico de Viseu (Portugal), Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico (Italy), Universitatea Nationala De Educatie Fizica Si Sport Din Bucuresti (Romania), University of Limerick (Ireland) and EAS (Malta). The main objectives are: to detect the needs and barriers athletes-students with disabilities have in combining their sports and university commitments; to adapt the Dual Career model to elite athletes with disabilities for promoting their social integration and for supporting their transition to the labor market at the end of their sports careers; to create an innovative course for university staff to serve as sports mentors for athletes-students with disabilities.
More information on the selected ERASMUS+ SPORT 2020 proposals iS available at https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/selection-results/erasmus-sport-2020_en
The ERASMUS + funded project STARTING11 reaches the next project phase. The meeting started with a review about the last months during which the upcoming testing phase was planned, including the selection of the external stakeholders, the assignment of tools to the testing partners and above all, the development of the guidelines for the upcoming testing phase.
In the main part all project partners were informed about the procedure for the upcoming testing phase. ADH who is responsible for the testing phase planned the next months of testing. Martin Santelmann, Dr. Christoph Fischer and Joerg Foerster, will also monitor the process with the goal of receiving high quality feedback from all testing partners for a good refinement on the very first European Dual Career Toolkit in 2021.
Aiming that each of the involved project partners …
- Amsterdam University of Applied Science (AUAS – Netherlands)
- Athletes as Students Network (EAS – Malta)
- German University Sport Federation (adh – Germany)
- Sportlycee Luxembourg (SplL – Luxembourg)
- Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS – England)
…. will test three tools from the different areas “Manage”, “Train” and “Counsel” in its own operation, supervise at least one external and two internal stakheolders from their own country.
On September 24, 2020, the University of Rome Foro Italico participated in the Prix Italia YLAB with four videos on the COVID-19 lockdown of four students.
Under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Tessitore and dr. Fabrizio Aversa – Head of the Audiovisual and Multimedia office, the protagonist of the video “Dual Career” was Eva Ferraguti, an Italian international karate dual career athlete. The video
presented the perseverance and commitment of Eva in combining elite sport and higher education, especially challenged during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Prix Italia is an international competition organised by the Italian National television (RAI) dedicated to quality Radio, TV and Internet programmes and its Ylab is an educational platform open to universities.
The four videos of the University of Foro Italico received a special mention for promoting the sport values, the spirit of teamwork, and to kick off a new start after COVID-19.
The interview with Eva Ferracuti was broadcasted by Rai3 and Rai Play (streaming).
The Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation (Taiwan) organized the 2020 University Sports Club Workshop for the celebration of the International Day of University Sport on September 18-20, 2020.
During this event, Dr Giancarlo Condello, Assistant Professor at the University of Taipei, lectured on “Dual career – Having a vision of the future”, presenting dual career principles, European actions and best practices, the activities of the EAS, and evidence-based knowledge.
In the last years, members of the EAS Executive Board have been invited to share their expertise during the anniversary celebration of the University of Taipei, which is a well-established and well-recognized institute in Taiwan strongly engaged in international cooperations with several educational institutes worldwide.
Dr Condello also presented recent evidence obtained from the FISU-EAS survey administered to student-athletes competing at the Taipei 2017, 29th Summer Universiade. The dissemination of these findings can contribute to enhancing the student-athlete support in developing their sport and education careers.
Thanks to the Team of the University of Hamburg and the efforts of the EAS Executive Committee the dual career community met also in 2020 despite the restrictions COVID-19 pandemic.
The one-day virtual event included three sections: lectures on the European dual career discourse, the reports of eight Collaborative Partnerships in dual career, and two dual career workshops.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Joerg Foerster (University of Hamburg Sport Service and EAS Board Member) welcomed more than 100 participants from different Continents despite the relevant difference in time zones.
Then, President Laura Capranica updated on the involvement of the Network in several exciting applications on dual career aspects still in need to be considered, and on its election as a Member of the Consultative Committee Bureau of the EPAS-Council of Europe, and on a future dissemination activity for its members.
Yves Le Lostecque, Head of the Sport Unit of the European Commission, informed on the European strategies, policies, programmes, opportunities, and activities also in light of the actual pandemic crisis.
Agata Dziarnowska, who recently joined the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the European Commission, contributed to a vision of the future European dual career.
The career counsellors Pamela Wittfothand and Leif Böhnert informed the participants on the German dual career approach and work at the Olympic Training Center in Hamburg.
- For the EU-funded Collaborative Partnerships in dual career, Philip Fuchs presented the findings of the AMiD survey on dual career of migrating athletes;
- Federica Stradi reported on the approach of the DONA project, which is grounded on the needs of youth female volleyball players;
- Antonio Figueiredo presented the educational programme for parents of dual career athletes based on the evidence and eminence knowledge acquired during the EMPATIA project;
- Pascal Izzicupo illustrated the dual career advancements at higher education institutes resulting from the More Than Gold project and the findings of the survey on dual career during the COVID-19 lockdown;
- Daniela Drago illustrated the aims of the Sport Opens School project, which encompasses dual career in an innovative educational approach of physical education;
- Dennis van Vlaanderen and Wolfgang Stockinger presented the progress of the European toolkit for dual career service providers of the STARTING 11 project; and
- Cvita Gregov illustrated the objectives of the We Care project, encompassing a Comprehensive Athlete Information System and the to establish three National Athletic Care and Development Centres in the Balcan region.
Finally, two interesting workshops allowed deep insights in the ED MEDIA and STARTING 11 projects. In particular, for ED MEDIA Inga Staškevičiūtė-Butienė presented the outcomes of the gaps in the implementation of the EU Dual Career Guidelines for Athletes, Ferran Calabuig-Moreno the videos on the opinions of a manager, a policy maker, and a Rector, Ole Keldorf led the discussion on potential activities to raise the awareness on dual career, and Irena Valentine collected the participants’ opinion on how to advance dual career trough media.
During the STARTING 11 workshop moderated by Dennis van Vlaanderen and Wolfgang Stockinger, two tools of the European dual career toolkit were presented, and the participants’ feedback on their content and format were gathered.
Finally, Cristina Cortis presented the venue of the 2022 EAS Annual Conference to be hosted by the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio in the Angevin-Aragonese Castle of Gaeta, Italy.
On September 8, 2020, during a blended meeting organized on-site (Strasbourg) and in a virtual modality, EAS has been re-elected as a Member of the 2020-2022 Bureau of the Consultative Committee of EPAS – Council of Europe.
The 2020-2022 Bureau of the Consultative Committee is chaired by Kole Gjeloshaj (International Sport School Federation- ISF), with Tone Jagodic (European Olympic Committees-EOC) acting as Vice-Chair, and Laura Capranica (EAS), Louis Mustakas (European Network of Sport Education-ENSE), James Ogilvie (Union of European Football Associations-UEFA), and Janez Sodrznik (The Association for International Sport for All-TAFISA) as bureau members.
In providing a platform for co-operation between the public authorities of its 39 Member States and 25 sport organizations, EPAS contributes to the development of the European sport culture through the promotion of the values of the European Sports Charter.
Indeed, 2020 required all of us to adopt measures to prevent and to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. While physical distance is needed, we will keep staying connected. Thus, for the first time, the EAS General Assembly and Conference are now transformed into a virtual event hosted by the University of Hamburg (Germany).
To meet the dual-career excellence attendees, expect, the online EAS program includes keynote speakers and sessions with interactive Q&A sessions and two workshops.
At the heart of our online program is the cutting-edge information in the European achievements and future activities, and the experiences of EU-funded projects on dual career. Thus, the program will provide various views and approaches that will encourage key dual career actions, policies, and research contributing to the development of the European dual career discourse.
Your online EAS Conference pass will give you exclusive access to:
- Annual General Assembly
- All keynote presentations, sessions, and workshops
- Post-Conference access to presentations
Therefore, the 2020 EAS conference will remain the privileged occasion for the interchange of ideas and stay current in the European dual career field and networking!
We are here for the benefit of athletes as students, and we look forward to seeing you online on September 17, 2020.
Sincerely,
Laura Capranica, President
On July 3, 2020, UNISPORT-Italia (the network of 44 Italian universities interested in sport, and proactive member of EAS) organized the last virtual cafè before the summer break. This event focused on good practices of university sports, including dual career policies and services.
Specifically, Rector’s Delegate for sport Francesco Calvetti presented the Polytechnic of Milan, and Rector’s Delegate for sport and Member of the National Council of the University Sport association-CUSI Claudio Bertoletti presented the University of Bergamo.
The event was a significant opportunity to debate new models of university sport governance and to envisage the implementation of good practices at a higher educational level.
In autumn UNISPORT Italia will propose new events to exchange information useful for the development of university sport. At present, all the past virtual meetings are available on the UNISPORT-Italia new youtube channel UNISPORT ITALIA
May 8 – The dual career of athletes.
May 15 – Sport reopens in safety. The University’s contribution to Italian sport.
May 22 – Safety in sports practices.
May 29 – COVID-19 & University sport, the European approach to the crisis.
June 5 – E-learning and training, the recipe of the young athletes of the future.
June 12 – Sport meets innovation: a fast-growing sector for R&D opportunities.
June 19 – Social responsibility and university sport.
July 3 – Case studies: Good practices of university sport management
On July 1, 2020, the EMPATIA Team (Coordinator: University of Ljubljana; Partners: EUSA Institute, Ginásio Clube Figueirense, INSEP, CONI, Sport Ireland Institute, University of Coimbra, University of Limerick, University of Rome Foro Italico, and EAS) participated to a virtual meeting aimed to refine the education material of the online programme for parents of student-athletes, which has been developed on thorough evidence- (Tessitore et al., under revision), the eminence-based knowledge collected from 115 parents of dual career athletes (Giaka et al., under revision), and a concept mapping procedure involving 489 parents from six Member States (e.g., France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Slovenia) to develop a dual career parenting education framework.
In the next months, the EMPATIA Team is going to collect the parents’ feedback on the usefulness of the educational programme before its official launch at the end of the project.
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