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FUSION - Future links for University athletes with Sports clubs Integrating Organised Networks

FUSION project partners are committed to making the university system as conducive as possible to the sports practice for students.

The duration of the FUSION project is 24 months, starting in October 2024. 

Often, graduates find it difficult to replicate a similar social setting to encourage their participation in sporting activities after studies. Sports clubs emerge as the most viable alternative, reflecting the university’s organizational and social structure.

The project aims to build a bridge between universities and sports clubs to help current students to sustain their sports engagement beyond the support of the university environment.

Therefore, the project has 3 main objectives: establish a supportive network for young graduates, encouraging the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle in their transition to the adult life; facilitate communication channels between universities, students and sports clubs; and develop a podcast, designed to provide students and graduates with useful informations on how to keep their connection to sport practice after university.

The project will consist of 4 meetings, both online and in-person, and 3 major actions: survey, networking events, and production of outputs.

The survey would provide more information to better understand students and alumni motivations and obstacles in engaging in sports activity in and out of the university system. Its results and feedback would then be used to implement the various activities of the networking events.

Networking events will involve student and club athletes, as well as representatives from universities and local sports clubs.

Each partnering organization will host a local networking event. The project’s results should serve as a foundation for developing a podcast and contribute to building better connections between the sports organizations.

The podcast will be recorded by the partners during the networking events, and will showcase the input and opinions of participants on their practice of sport at the university and/or in sports clubs.

The project has EUSA Institute as a coordinator and Latvian University Sports Federation (LUSF), Lithuanian Students' Sports Association (LSSA), University of Hamburg (UHAM), and Toulouse University Club (TUC), as partners. 
 
FUSION project is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.