IPR-A - Evolving Intellectual Property Rights Skills for Athletes

For the majority of athletes, including many successful ones, much in their sport, the alternative ways to sustain themselves financially are a reality. IPR-A project addresses the objective of “encouraging Dual Careers of Athletes” by formulating and carrying out a training program for athletes during and after the end of their involvement in sports, focused on their training on a specific field of entrepreneurship skills, the Intellectual Property Rights Skills. Our projects concept approach is spread in three phases which relate to the Work Packages structure and address specific objectives. Our project will work on three levels : supporting the community (by developing educational programs and IPR entrepreneurial based skills), affecting the social aspect by involving athletes in the process and organizing seminars for immediate application of knowledge through specific educational method and affecting at personal level by increasing the beliefs about IPR and build skills so as to equip athletes for successful and active action with entrepreneurship. The first phase of the project will incorporate activities related to design and define the learning outcomes of our projects program. During this phase partners will focus their actions to development of trainer’s manual and to make the educational course available online. On the second phase co-creation studio will be organized, where the modules will be co-designed with the participants effort, and together with the other activities of this phase, the training program will be delivered to the participants in the form of educational seminars through specific educational method. This will equip them with confidence and a deeper understanding of the IPR skills being acquired to encourage them to tackle entrepreneurship more effectively. The third phase is horizontal and will run from day one and all the way through to the end. It will concentrate on the promotion of IPR skills to retired athletes.