Sport4E

about us

Skills through sport for Employability and Entrepreneurship – is an Erasmus+ Sport funded project which was born thanks to the cooperation between different partners from European countries, working locally and internationally in the field of education, employability, entrepreneurship and sport.

Sport4E Project addresses the objective of promoting education and skills development in and through sport by implementing activities specifically focused on the creation of useful, attractive, and immediate open educational resources aimed to the development and implementation of soft and transversal skills that from sport can be applied to work.

The project aims at using skills and competencies acquired by coaches and sport instructors to train young athletes and unemployed people in developing a set of professional hard and soft skills useful to integrate them into the labour market and promote entrepreneurship between youth. In this way it will be possible to generate labour through sport.

The main target groups of Sport4E project are:

Coaches and sport instructors
Youths and young athletes that can be supported by sport in integration into the labour market and/or in developing entrepreneurial paths
The Sport4e project follows the “European Union Work Plan for Sport 2021 – 2024” in which one of the priority areas is socio-economic and environmental dimensions of sport.

Objectives

to identify the skills useful for accessing the Labour market that can be developed through sport Activities
to train sports instructors and coaches on how to transfer to athletes the key skills and competencies useful to enter the Labour market or develop entrepreneurial paths
to support dual career paths of young athletes
to enhance capacity building of young athletes in entrepreneurial skills
Promote the development of key competences in young athletes to access the labour market
to strengthen the link between educational and sport centres and association to the EU priorities in field of sport
to develop the cooperation among European organisation involved in sport activities, research, and studies

Activities

The project activities will be implemented by 6 partners of 5 different countries: Portugal, Italy, Germany and Hungary. The duration of the project is 30 Months.

Desk Research and best practices identification
Literature review and publication of an academic paper
Survey development application for athletes and data analysis
Development and validation of the survey templates for coaches and HR stakeholders, data analysis
Development of focus groups guide and conducting focus groups and data analysis
Concept elaboration and design of the training program, development of training materials/modules
Publication of the training modules and guides on the CEIPES e-learning platform
Definition of the framework and the structure of the Methodology Guide of Career Development
Organization of SPORT4E seminars and workshops
SPORT4E PILOT Program – Training in Realistic Settings and development of learning films
Organisation of local dissemination events and the final international conference

results

Report on Entrepreneurship Skills Availability of Young Athletes
Report on Coaches capacity to use sport as a tool for development of skills and competencies functional to access the Labour market
Methodological Guide for career development
Sport4E learning film

WP 2 Participatory Action - Research Cycle, WP Leader: TUM

Qualitative and quantitative research on sport coaches’ capacity to use sport as a tool for development of skills and competencies functional to the labour market
Qualitative and quantitative research to investigate the level of entrepreneurial skills possessed by athletes and the competencies necessary to access the labour market that they already have or need to develop

WP 3 Training Program and Methodology Guide of Career Development, WP Leader: CEIPES

Creation of an e-learning training course (packaged in open educational resources materials (OER)) dedicated to coaches and sport instructors.
Methodology Guide of Career Development for young athletes aimed to assess and evaluate the potential of young athletes to access the current Labour market and/or get involved in entrepreneurship as a career.

WP 4 SPORT4E Pilot, Workshops and Learning films, WP Leader: SJPF

Pilot several training courses where coaches and sport instructors become trainers of youth, unemployed or migrants to support them in the development of a set of skills need to integrate or reintegrate into the Labour market or/and develop entrepreneurial paths.
The videos shot during the Pilot, the workshops with several experts and the lessons on the sports field will make up the SPORT4E learning films.

News

Announcing the Launch of the SPORT4E Training Course: Empower Your Career through Sports

This innovative program, titled "Skills through Sport for Employability and Entrepreneurship" (SPORT4E), is designed specifically for coaches and sports instructors who are eager to enhance their professional competencies and succeed in the job market.

The Sport4E project team met for the consortium’s third transnational meeting, hosted by Budapest Association for International Sports in Budapest, Hungary, on the 11th and 12th of April.

The next meeting will take place in Zaragoza, Spain, on the 17th and 18th of October 2024. We will be sharing more news until then. Stay tuned!

Exciting News for Coaches: New E-Learning Platform Coming Soon

We're nearly ready to launch a brand-new e-learning platform.