(UNI)TED FORCES TO SUPPORT
THE EDUCATION OF (UNI)VERSITY
SPORT COMM(UNI)TY – UNI4S
The (Uni)ted forces to support the education of (Uni)versity sport comm(Uni)ty –
(Uni4s) project started in March 2021, and it focuses on promoting education in
and through sport with a special focus on skills development in university sport.
The project aims to create
educational opportunities
for university sports bodies.
Partners’ experiences and
recommendations will be made
available towards the end of the
project in an online publication,
freely available to download
and share. The project seems
to be gaining in importance, as
the need to create conditions
for the skills development
of participants in the area of
organising university sports
events grows each day.
The second part of the 2022
and the first half of 2023 have
represented the conclusion of the
project, with the last gathering
between the project partners – in
different locations and during
important national and European
events – and with the publication
of the final guidebook about the
organisation of academic sports
competition, which was published
in 3 languages – Polish, English
and Dutch.
On the 6th of May 2023, an
in-person meeting between
partners of the project took
place in Ljubljana, with the main
goal of the meeting being the
discussion and work on the final
version of the handbook. The
meeting took place in Hostel
Celica, a building that served
as a military prison for over
100 years and has now been
renovated into a modern and
lively hostel.At this meeting the partners
had the chance to get an
overview of EUSA activities,
by Andrej Pisl from the EUSA
Institute, the so far completed
activities throughout the project,
continuing with defining the
next steps until the conclusion
of the project, presented by
Marianna Pikul from AZS,
and explanation on how the
university sports system works
in the Netherlands and how to
organise a multi-sport event by
Luuk Minnaar.The last part of the meeting
consisted of working on the final
version of the handbook, where
participants were divided into
three different groups, and all
of them reflected and discussed
further of a specific part of the
handbook.On June 8-11, 2023, project
partners met for the last time
in the Netherlands, while
attending the Dutch University
Championships finals in
Wageningen. It was a chance
to sum up the project and
experience the last exchange
of practices, while also
finalising the last details for the
publication of the handbook.During the last Uni4S project
meeting, Marianna Pikul, the
Projects Coordinator for AZS,
shortly introduced the Uni4s
and gave a better overview
of the tasks that have been
accomplished since the project
started in 2021 and the finalsteps, while Andrej Pisl, USA
Communications and Projects
Manager, shared his expertise
on the promotion of the project
on social media platforms and
expressed his optimism for
the future of the project as
it could serve as a basis for
other Erasmus+ projects which
are founded by the European
Union and focus on creating
and providing employees of
university sport organizations
educational opportunities.The project was led by the
University Sports Association
of Poland, working with
another national university
sport body, Studentensport
Netherlands and a local
organisation University Sports
Association Warsaw, as well as
the EUSA Institute. The project
is co-funded by Erasmus+
Programme of the European
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uni4s.azs.waw.pl
for more informationCo-funded by the
Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union