MICRO LEARNING
ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ATHLETES
The Micro Learning Entrepreneurship for Athletes (MLEA) project addresses
the collaborative partnership priority to promote education in and through
sport with special focus on skills development, as well as support the
implementation of the EU Guidelines on Dual Careers of Athletes.
The project is developing a
tailor-made, modular curriculum
on entrepreneurship for athletes
and former athletes. All the
curriculum’s modules will be
delivered by academic experts,
and they will be recorded.
Educational material will follow
the micro-learning approach
to help athletes make most
of their time and achieve their
educational goals.
MLEA will integrate gamification
elements to increase athlete’s
engagement and will enable
online microlearning on demand
by offering bite-sized, small
learning units with the necessary
amount of information to help
athletes achieve their goals. The
project is extremely important
for all professional athletes and
focuses on the development
of their Dual Careers and time
management.
In 2022, the first step made
within the project activities was
conducting the short survey for
athletes on entrepreneurship,
specifically targeting (student)
athletes in Germany, Sweden,
Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and
Bosnia & Herzegovina. The
preliminary results of the survey
and the draft of the script
for education material were
presented at the hybrid project
meeting in Stockholm.At the project meeting that
took place on 9th of May in
Ljubljana, the importance of
sports ambassadors, potential
functions of the future online
platform, its gamification, as
well as future steps involving
the recording of the video
modules were discussed.When partners met in Sarajevo
in June, they established a clear
picture and idea of the upcoming
steps and technicalities related
to the creation of the scripts and
modules, that will be the main
resource through which the
athletes will gain the necessary
information and skills to achieve
their goals and find their way to
a successful dual career.With the activities moving
forward, the partner met in
Dusseldorf in September to
discuss and present the best
promotional activities foreseen
to be done related to this
learning opportunity, which will
be offered as an online course
free of charge. In the upcoming
months, additional promotion
activities will be done in project
partner countries, with the
educational material being fully
available by December this year.Update on the gamification part
of the project and the process of
choosing a potential platform,
that will support the publications
of the modules, as well as an
update on the video prototypes
and raw version of the prototype
videos done by ZSEM, along
with other details about the
postproduction and realization of
the beta versions of the filmed
module scripts, were one of the
main topics discussed on the
meeting in October in Belgrade.In the frame of this project
there is a multiplier event
planned to happen in February
2023, that will include the final
partners meeting and will mark
the conclusion of this project,
which has been extended for an
additional 3 months.The project is coordinated by
Zagreb School of Economics and
Management (CRO), with project
partners including Croatian
Olympic Committee (CRO),
Stiftelsen Stockholm School of
Economics Institute for Research
(SWE), WHU – Otto Beisheim
School of Management (GER),
Olympic Committee of Bosnia
(BOS), Olympic Committee
of Serbia (SRB), Olympic
Committee of Slovenia (SLO)
and the EUSA Institute (SLO).
The MLEA project is co-funded
by Erasmus+ Programme of the
European Union.PLEASE SEE
http://www.mlea.eu
for more informationCo-funded by the
Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union