Athletes Friendly Education – AFE

This transnational project was focused on promoting dual careers of athletes and supporting innovative educational approaches and good governance in sport, in relation to the objectives of EU policies in the field of sport and in pursuit of the objectives from the EU Commission Guidelines on Dual Career of Athletes.

The aim of the project was to spread awareness and good practices among educational institutions that supported 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 recognize the efforts made by dual career-friendly institutions.

The greater goal was to then raise awareness of the importance of education of athletes at national levels and offer tools for athletes, managers, coaches, and parents to make responsible decisions about education, with the project’s certified list of educational programs able to guide them in their dual career path.

Through the partners’ efforts, AFE looked to create new instruments of cooperation and secure sustainable partnerships between higher education institutions and businesses while establishing a list of educational programs, at the EU level, with already developed mechanisms.

The legacy of the project was to find the most effective way to improve athletes’ education through innovative educational approaches that could be implemented in Dual Career programs in the EU framework and at the national level of the EU Member states.

The project concluded in 2021 with the main outcomes of the of the Athletes Friendly Education project on evaluation system of Educational Institutions which support athletes during their sport career and education, being presented at the AFE online Conference on Dual Career on December 15. More information and the official programme agenda of the conference, can be found here.

More information regarding the conference and the materials presented, you can find on the following link  https://athletes.friendly.edu.olympic.si/novica 

Partners in this project included:

Olympic Committee of Slovenia (SLO) National Olympic Committee of Portugal (POR) Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee (BEL) German Olympic Academy (GER) Croatian Olympic Academy (CRO) University of Maribor’s Faculty of Organizational Sciences (SLO) University of Rijeka’s Faculty of Maritime Studies (CRO) Volleyball Federation of Macedonia (MAC) EUSA Institute (SLO)

The project was co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
For more information, regarding this project please see: http://athletes.friendly.edu.olympic.si