EUSA Magazine 2019-20

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SPORTS ASSOCIATION YEAR MAGAZINE 2019-20^96

6. EU INITIATIVES

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 transnational

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

educational institutions and

sport organisations at EU

level while meeting the hard

challenges 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 targets university

student-athletes, coaches and

sport professionals from these

countries, focusing on the use of

modern technologies that can

change the way society 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 project

experts in sport technology are

being developed and the didactic

content will be oriented towards

tech-enabled learning 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 and coaches through

education in and through

sport, but also to increase the

awareness 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 consortium

is composed of the Institute of

Sports Sciences at the University

of Vienna (AUT), the Otto von

Guericke University Magdeburg

(GER), the Macedonian Olympic

Committee (MKD) and the

European University Sports

Association Institute (SLO).

PLEASE SEE

smartsport.bg

for more information

Co-funded by the

Erasmus+ Programme

of the European Union