BLA

Be Like an Athlete

Key Words & Objectives 

Key Words

  • Youth
  • Student-athletes
  • Dual Careers (School + Sport)
  • Social-Psychological Competencies
  • New Technologies

Objectives

  1. To improve and balance sport and school results of youth involved in dual career programmes;
  2. To reduce the number of youths withdrawing from sport participation (dropout);
  3. To improve youth socio-psychological competencies;
  4. To establish, in each partner country, a socio-psychological profile of student-athletes involved in dual careers programmes;
  5. To establish a common socio-psychological profile of student-athletes involved in dual careers programmes from all partner countries;
  6. To communicate the established socio-psychological profile through an interactive tool (Mobile Application) and pedagogical materials (guidelines, workshops, social networks and a website) in the sport and school contexts;
  7. To develop sustainable and scalable evaluation mechanisms within sport and school communities concerning socio-psychological competencies.

The target groups are:

  1. Student-athletes from both genders aged 12 - 18 years old involved in dual careers programmes;
  2. Youngsters from both genders aged 12 - 18 years old.