E4SPORT 2.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

E4SPORT 2.0

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

CONTEXT:
The E4SPORT 2.0 program has focused on the promotion of sports entrepreneurship through young people. Currently, the area of ​​sport as a business is in continuous growth, offering multiple opportunities to people trained in this field. The offer is wide and varied, so every day is more necessary creativity and innovation in order to enter this labor market. In addition, the sport area is characterized by the precarious employment of its workers, with no possibilities of promotion and improvement. Through this program, young people have been able to test their imagination to create business plans that are both creative, innovative, sustainable and viable. In this way, they can solve the problem of unemployment / precarious employment that is presented to them once they finish their studies. Likewise, the participants were aware of the possibilities of alliances with their peers, as well as the importance of multidisciplinary work in order to attract the attention of their future clients.

OBJECTIVES:
The main objective of the program has been the exchange of good practices and the dissemination of results in the area of ​​sport in young entrepreneurs, using as a basis the results obtained in the Entrepreneurship4Sport project. In addition, E4SPORT 2.0 tried to promote the entrepreneurial capacity of young people in the field of sport to give way to more innovative and creative businesses.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:
There have been five associations that have allied themselves in this project, all of them in the field of sports management: the Asociación Galega de Xestores Deportivos (AGAXEDE), the Associação Portuguesa de Gestão do Desporto (APOGESD), the Asociación de Gestores del Deporte Castilla y León (AGEDECYL), the Asociación de Gestores Deportivos de Extremadura (AGEDEX) and the Asociación de Gestores Deportivos del Principado de Asturias (FORUM ASTUR).

ACTIVITIES:
A) Planning and management meetings: 4 transnational meetings, online meetings and technical sessions.
B) Content production: production of Internet tools (web, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube), production of support materials, and production of visibility and dissemination documentation.
C) Training Course: held between October 17 and 21, 2016 in Guimaraes (Portugal), aimed at training youth workers.
D) Non-formal education activities: 7 monthly workshops, tutorials, implementation of the idea, meetings with successful entrepreneurs and Technical Pitch.
E) Non-formal education mobility activity (exchange): Team meals, Team Buildings, guided tours and Financial Pitch.
F) Seminar on Dissemination of Results: carried out during the month of September 2017 in each of the venues.

RESULTS AND IMPACTS:
Through this project, the participants obtained different benefits:
– Promotion of their sociability, by participating in activities that promote the exchange of experiences and coexistence.
– Increase knowledge and skills in the field of sports management, both for the creation of a business, for future professional life linked to sport or as a means of personal enrichment.
– Growth of your knowledge about entrepreneurial practice.
– Obtaining a networking network together with participants, tutors, trainers, successful entrepreneurs and financiers.
– Creation of a new job opportunity, away from unemployment and / or precarious employment.
– Training in active participation in society.
– Increase knowledge and participation in democracy and national and European culture.
– Training for the national and European labor market.

BENEFITS:
The long-term benefits are focused on the optimization of youth action and sport, being able to promote innovative, diverse, motivating, attractive and contextualized actions in the youth entrepreneurial spirit, with great potential for learning, where young people feel valued in their opinion to act and develop as actors of change.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58000 Eur

Project Coordinator

AGAXEDE & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION DE GESTORES DEPORTIVOS DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS (FORUM ASTUR DE GESTORES DEPORTIVOS)
• Associação Portuguesa de Gestão de Desporto
• Asociación de Gestores del Deporte de Extremadura
• Asociación de Gestores del Deporte de Castilla y León AGEDECYL