ICU 2024

The Awareness Raising Activity Event, realized within the Find Me Erasmus+ Project is the perfect event that can highlight the importance of applying the policies and strategies of Dual Career In European Union. The event is scheduled within the 10th International Conference of the University Consortium in Physical Education, Sports and Physiotherapy "The Football Of The Future-Between Science, Society And Sport”, held in Iasi - Romania, between November 22-24, precisely to increase the international visibility of dual career.For Europe, one of the important documents dealing with dual career is the European Guidelines for Dual Career Athletes, an document that describes policy recommendations for supporting dual careers in high-performance sport (drafted in Brussels, 2012).The promotion of dual careers to ensure the educational and vocational development of young athletes reflects the strategy of the European forum, which wants a low school dropout rate, as many university graduates as possible and a high percentage of employability among young people (Aunola et al ., 2018).

In the process of recognizing the existing difficulties in this direction, the European Commission and the International Olympic Committee are developing policies to adapt sports and education, because the need to increase the chances of success of young athletes in the respective fields was understood (Knight et al., 2018 ).

The state can intervene in the promotion and management of the dual career in that country. Studies have identified 4 types of state approaches to dual careers (Aquilina & Henry, 2010):

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• Type 1: State-centred regulation, where government legislation or statutory regulations assign responsibilities to higher education institutions. We find this type of approach in countries such as France, Hungary, Luxembourg, Spain, Poland, Portugal;
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• Type 2: the state as a sponsor/facilitator, where formal agreements are promoted to meet the educational needs of athletes. Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden represent countries that put into practice the characteristics of the type 2 dual career approach;
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• Type 3: in this situation the National Sports Federations or Institutes are directly engaged in the negotiation with the educational entities on behalf of the athletes. The states using the described strategy are Greece and Great Britain;
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• Type 4: laisser-faire, where there are no formal structures and agreements are negotiated individually. It is the simplest dual career approach, and in this situation things can be improved considerably both through clear policies and government involvement. Countries such as Austria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia can be classified under this type of dual-career state relationship.