SMART SPORT
This two-year project supports the implementation of continental dual career
guidelines, embracing sport and education while linking them to the business sector,
especially focusing on smart technologies. Within the project, online educational
modules for elite athletes and coaches will be developed, aimed at enhancing their
knowledge of innovative and smart technologies, their technological skills and its uses.
Smart Sport supports the implementation
of the European Union guidelines on dual
careers of athletes by setting up a trans-
national network of stakeholders who
will elaborate on, implement and test an
innovative Dual Career Programme as a
new educational and training opportunity
for athletes and coaches. The project will
strengthen cooperation between educa-
tional institutions and sport organisations
at EU level while meeting the hard chal-
lenges athletes face in having to combine
education with sports training.
Smart Sport wishes to contribute to
supporting further implementation and
development, allowing for flexible online
education for talented student-athletes in
project partner countries. The project tar-
gets university student-athletes, coaches
and sport professionals from these
countries, focusing on the use of modern
technologies that can change the way so-
ciety operates and can have a huge impact
on the development of sport by giving it a
whole new perspective to focus on. Online
educational modules elaborated by pro-
ject experts in sport technology are being
developed and the didactic content will be
oriented towards tech-enabled learn-
ing and training to facilitate prospective
programme participants in acquiring new,
more advanced and effective skills.The project aims not only to raise the
competence of university athletes andcoaches through education in and through
sport, but also to increase the aware-
ness of major stakeholders in sports and
education about dual career of athletes
and elaborate new state-of-the-art paths
for EU athletes.Smart Sport is co-financed by the
Erasmus+ Programme of the European
Union and is led by the Bulgarian Olympic
Committee (BUL). The partners consor-
tium is composed of the Institute of Sports
Sciences at the University of Vienna
(AUT), the Otto von Guericke University
Magdeburg (GER), the Macedonian Olym-
pic Committee (MKD) and the European
University Sports Association (SLO).