Sport Employs YOUrope - Exploring European galaxies of partnership to enhance youth employment and entrepreneurship in sport, project financed by the European Union, was a one-year project, dealing with youth employability in and through sport.

The final evaluation and partners’ meeting was held between March 29 and 31, 2015 in Madrid, Spain. EUSA was represented by its Communications and Projects Manager Mr Andrej Pisl. Besides the analysis of the cooperation, activities and future plans, final amendments of the toolkit were also made during the meeting, hosted by the Spanish Youth Council.



European wide initiative promotes youth-employment in and through the sport sector and highlights the transferable skills that sport can develop. The project covered several actions to raise awareness on opportunities of employment for young people across Europe, including dissemination and analysis of the questionnaire on skills acquired in sports; Seminar “Sport Employs YOUrope - Recognise non formal education in sport to fight youth unemployment” in October 2014 in Rome, Italy; national youth-led campaigns on non-formal education in sports as a tool to fight youth employment; and development of the toolkit which will be disseminated through the partners’ networks.



The project was lead by ENGSO Youth, in partnership with the European University Sports Association (EUSA), International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA), National Olympic Committee of Serbia (NOC Serbia), Career Center Inventive, Italian Association for Cooperation Europe-World (AICEM), and associated partners European Observatoire of Sport and Employment (EOSE), French Students Association of Sports Sciences and Physical Education (ANESTAPS), National Spanish Youth Council (JCE) and local partners. The project was realised with the support of the Youth in Action Programme of the European Union, and within EUSA, the project was also supported by the International University Sport Federation (FISU).

Although the project is formally concluded, a follow-up is already planned, especially taking the importance of the subject matter into account. In the meantime, we are keeping the interest alive by the #SEYouth hashtag on social media.