Personality, Perseverance, Practice, Protection, Promotion: supporting our young sports athletes to succeed in their dual careers. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Personality, Perseverance, Practice, Protection, Promotion: supporting our young sports athletes to succeed in their dual careers.

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The context and background of our project ‘Personality, Perseverance, Practice, Protection, Promotion: supporting our high level sports athletes to succeed in their dual careers’ is and very exciting project of great relevance because it will provide us with a knowledge that will strengthen our high level sports athletes in succeeding in academics, sports, socially and in life in general. This project will provide different actors with a knowledge that will help them to develop a practice that is supportive of our high level sports athletes in general, for example in terms of building structures and interventions. It is a well-known issue that high level sports athletes find themselves in a dilemma feeling pressured to choose between sports and academics/education. This is a serious problem not only of relevance for the individual but of relevance for the wider community.

The objectives of our project is to enable high level sports athletes to succeed academically, socially and in their specialist sport; to develop structures that allow all stakeholders to successfully support these young people; to identify what the key characteristics of high level sports athletes are and to develop these characteristics to ensure success and personal fulfillment and furthermore to exploit the situation to encourage and develop greater involvement in sports activity for all.

There will be 6 partners within the project, including 3 schools, 1 public body and 2 sports clubs. Furthermore there will be 1 associated partner: Team Danmark, an organization funded by the Danish government, with the purpose of supporting high level sports athletes.
In this project there will be a number of activities, including 1 teacher’s/staff’s training, 2 pupils’ exchanges with participation from teachers/staff, 7 transnational meetings and 4 multiplier events. Beside this every partner in the project will be working continuously and committed to fulfill the aims of the project directly and indirectly.

The methodology will be multifaceted. We will use different approaches to reach the aims of the project, developing best practice including case studies, different kinds of research, qualitative and quantitative data, face to face meetings, training events and transnational meetings.
The results and the impact on the partners within this project and other related actors including the wider community is envisaged to be direct and long-lasting including:
Collaborative learning on a European level, building knowledge, encouragement and motivation, qualifications of development, developing and sharing best practice.
Building international and professional networks among high level sports athletes, teachers, trainers, schools and other collaborative partners.
Building bridges between different actors around the high level sports athlete, and building long lasting collaborative networks.
Building structures and knowledge to support young athletes achieving at a higher level in sports as well as academically, and a focus on and awareness of developing and supporting dual careers.

There will be a great impact on the wider community, at a local, regional, national, European and international level in terms of:
The community will be strengthened by having schools that are supporting high level sports athletes in developing dual careers, and there will be an economical gain, in supporting the development of dual careers in terms of making good prerequisites for high level sports athletes to success in further education and employment.
It is of great relevance for the wider community that high level sports athletes are able to be positive role models, and thereby contribute to the further development and promoting of sports locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, and indirectly contributing to the health and well-being of the population.

In this project we want to create a focus on a national, European and international level, to secure structural and economic support to high level sport athletes in developing dual careers.

This project will support and develop European collaboration with an increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship through the designed outputs; increase the competence in foreign languages and culture through teacher/staff and pupil exchange and school to school cooperation and sharing of resources; increase the levels of digital competence by the range of communication used within the management of the project, more positive attitudes towards the European project and the EU values through participation of at least 4 countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105399 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bohrskolen & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Hudiksvalls Gymnastikförening
• The British School of Brussels VZW
• Famagusta Nautical Club
• Bromangymnasiet
• Eliteidræt Esbjerg