Partners of the transnational project Athletes Friendly Education (AFE), of which the EUSA Institute is a partner, met online for a fruitful second partner’s meeting on Thursday, April 9.

Funded by the ErasmusPlus programme of the EU, the two-year project looks to promote the dual careers of athletes and focuses on the support of innovative educational approaches and good governance in sport, in relation to the objectives of the EU policies in the field of sport and in pursuit of the objectives from the EU Commission Guidelines on Dual Career of Athletes.

The project’s aim is to spread awareness and good practices among educational institutions that support athletes in their dual careers by determining the minimum quality standards of educational and training institutions at the EU level, and then establishing a certification system to recognise the efforts made by dual career-friendly institutions.

Led by project coordinators the Olympic Committee of Slovenia, partners in the project include the National Olympic Committee of Portugal, the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee, the German Olympic Academy, the Croatian Olympic Academy, the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Organisational Sciences, the University of Rijeka’s Faculty of Maritime Studies, the Volleyball Federation of Macedonia and the European University Sports Association Institute.



With the current coronavirus pandemic limiting travel across Europe, the project’s second meeting was held online, with all partners present. In attendance on behalf of the EUSA Institute was Communications and Project Manager Mr Andrej Pisl and Communications Officer Mr Fabio De Dominicis.

Following an overview of the project’s current activities, various tasks and reports on the different work packages were discussed, as well as the implementation and realisation of each. Also the promotion and dissemination of the project’s aims were the discussed, including the launch of the project’s website.

Partners are confident of continuing their tasks and meeting their deadlines despite the current global health crises and will be in close virtual contact ahead of the project’s next online meeting, scheduled for May.

For more information about the Athletes Friendly Education project, please visit http://athletes.friendly.edu.olympic.si.