STARTING 11 Test Teams at EAS Conference 2020
Dual career programs depend on the quality of implementation at professional levels close to the athlete. However, more than one third of the EU member states self-rate their status and development of support arrangements as negative (European Commission, 2017). To tackle this problem, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and TW1N have co-designed the Erasmus+ sport project STARTING 11.
STARTING 11 aims to stimulate national, regional and local dual career practice in the EU. Next to the leads, the project unites manifold competences of European institutions in dual career: Sportlycée Luxembourg, Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS), German University Sports Federation (adh), CREPS Toulouse and European Athlete Student (EAS). In a multidisciplinary approach, these partners are about to create a broad set of tools for various areas of athlete support targeting dual career service providers in sport, education and the labour market.
Wanted for the Starting 11 workshop:
Experts to test the European Dual Career Toolkit
The EAS Conference 2020 marks the starting point for the test phase of the project. To this end, STARTING 11 reaches out for support from the conference participants. The project offers selected individuals an exclusive preview of the first set of tools.
These practitioners will be asked to provide their expert feedback within a 90min test session (16.30-18.00). Their inputs serve to further refine the tools. Concretely, STARTING 11 searches for dual career practitioners being active in 3 fields of service:
• Management: Responsible managers, coordinators or administrators within dual career support environments
• Counselling: Dual career counsellors, lifestyle advisors, player development managers, job coaches, sport psychologists, other counseling staff
• Other: various dual career practitioners
If you are keen on joining one of these sessions, please get in touch with STARTING 11 by 14 September 2020 via email to info@starting11.eu.
Only 15 places available – first come, first serve. Thank you for your cooperation!