Project Detail

WP1 Project Coordination 

Organisation and monitoring of the project activities, and the assurance of these activities’ quality.

Involved Parties

WP Leader – Cardiff Metropolitan University

All other partners contributing 

Deliverable 

Project Final Report – Report to share all project results

Objectives

• This WP involves the organisation and monitoring of the project activities, and the assurance of these activities’ quality. A summary of the tasks of this WP involve:
• All legal, contractual and administrative issues before and during the project
• Communication with the Commission and external bodies
• Financial management of the project
• Setting up and supporting the project management structure
• Work with WP2/3/5 Leads to develop research and outputs.
• Work with WP4 Lead to coordinate dissemination and multiplier activities.
•  The assessment of project progress and working with W5 Lead to check quality, control project outcome and impact.

WP2 Best Practice Review

Selection of the best practices from employability and entrepreneurship in cross-disciplinary communities of practice within partner countries (sport and general approaches).

This work will aim to define general guidelines, agree a common framework to support the development of employability of current and future sport managers in community and performance sport organisations.

Involved Parties

WP Lead – University of Strasbourg 

All other partners contributing 

Deliverable 

Best Practices Review

Review of the best practices of developing employability in Sport Management and cross disciplinary academic communities.

Objectives

This WP includes the selection of the best practices from employability and entrepreneurship in cross disciplinary communities of practice within partners countries (sport and general approaches). This work will aim to define general guidelines, agree a common framework to support the development of employability of current and future sports managers in community and performance sport organisations.

WP3 Field Research

The field research aims to consolidate the ongoing collection of primary data where existing good practice has been identified acting to develop on the recommendations of these recent major projects.

Involved Parties

WP Lead – EOSE
All other partners contributing

Deliverable 

Field Research Report

Objectives

The field research aims to consolidate the ongoing collection of priamry data where existing good practice has been identified (e.g.NASME / ESSA-Sport) acting to develop on the recommendations of these recent major projects. A secondary focus is to collect primary data where experimentation of the guidelines identified in WP2 are delivered for the first time. Field research will be institutional based, focused on sport management academic programmes in order to collect data relevant to the pre-professional student sport manager. Further field research will be undertaken with a broad range of sport (community and performance) organisations to understand the peceptions of academic and non academic training courses/degrees for sport managers and how employers/industry can become more engaged in supporting the development of the pre-professional student or exisiting sport manager for tradtional employment pathways and self-employment .

WP4 Dissemination & Events

To disseminate the end-products of the project to scholarly communities, national agencies, sport bodies and organisations, which are involved in employing and/or developing sport managers (paid or voluntary).

Involved Parties

WP Leads – EASM and Brunel University London
All other partners

Deliverable 

• Embedding Employability  Toolkit (31.07.22)
• Multiplier Events (10.10.22)
• Final International Summit (01.12.22)

Objectives

The aim of this WP is to disseminate the end-products of the project to scholarly communities, national agencies, sport bodies and organisations, which are involved in employing and/or developing sport managers (paid or voluntary).  This WP will aim to develop strategies for the sustainability of the project. These strategies will involve the development of communication and co-operation with key bodies, cross disciplinary communities and associations related to the development of employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship, including:

• Local, Regional and National Public Authorities
• National, Regional & Global Sport Organisations
• Specialist Government Departments
• Non-Profit Sport Organisations (inclusive of voluntary sector clubs).
• Private Sport Organisations (inclusive of professional sport clubs).
• University Faculties involved in developing sport management.
• Professionals who are involved in developing sport managers.
• Cross Disciplinary Communities (Career Development Professionals /Enterprise Educators)

There will be promotional actions to inform interested stakeholders (including the general public). Examples are campaigns through traditional media, social media, public relation actions, cross promotions in other events, seminars and conferences (including live and recorded webinars).

WP5 Quality Management

Quality management has to be implemented to ease the project execution from the start to the end. It describes the activities and quality criteria which need to be achieved and measured within the project.

Involved Parties

WP Lead – Lithuanian Sports University
All other partners

Deliverable 

Quality Assurance Report

Objectives

Quality management has to be implemented to ease the project execution from the start to the end. It describes the activities and quality criteria which need to be achieved and measured within the project. This WP will be concerned with the internal evaluation of the project’s course and progress, and accordingly provide advice/support to the project coordinator and partners through a ‘critical friend’ approach. Each partner will monitor the performance of the Work Package it manages, supported by all other partners. Information will be presented in a timely manner and in an accessible media/format in order to be appropriately shared and analysed. A Microsoft Teams Site and One Drive folder of the project – shared among all partners – will be created so that all partners can see, upload and edit the project documentation, being constantly able to review or check them. Therefore, a Quality Management Workbook will be created including all the necessary documents for quality assurance. This includes the self-assessment questionnaires which will be distributed to the consortium after every meeting and each 6 months with the purpose to evaluate ongoing or finished activities.

With experience in managing quality control and impact evaluation this WP will be managed by the Lituanian SportsUniversity (LSU). LSU will supervise the partners capacity to conduct regular monitoring according to objectives, procedures and indicators. An evaluation plan will be developed by capturing outcomes and results through a set of indicators. The project evaluator will use these to monitor progress, and accordingly inform the project partners.

WP6 Best Practice & Policy

The aim of this work package is: to develop guidelines and toolkits of good practices for developing sport management student employability

Involved Parties

WP – KU Leuven
All other partners

Deliverable 

Policy Recommendations Report

Objectives

The aim of this work package is: a) to develop guidelines and toolkits of good practices for developing sport management student employability. These guidelines will be developed as an educational tool for academic leaders and students studying sport management. It will incorporate the outcomes of the previous work packages. This educational tool will be available in the website of the program and will be disseminated, as discussed in the 2nd work package; b) to develop policy guidelines for developing the sport management workforce. These policies will be communicated to all parties involved in sport, health, physical activity industry.