Sportspeople Education and Training for Dual Career

Background The SET4DC project was created to develop innovative and easily accessible approaches and channels for cyclists - athletes and champions who have ended active sports, due to health or age reasons, to rediscover their career development in their favorite sport again, but at a higher managerial level. The project-created consortium of precisely selected partner organizations with many years of experience, with the interaction of 4 cycling clubs with active sports activity. Objectives The main objective of the SET4DC project was to support the professional realization of bikers in the cycling field through the development of an innovative Three-dimensional Sports Management programme for Dual Career in cycling which included the following dimensions:1. Cycling Clubs Management 2. Volunteers Managing3. Fundraising and Sponsorship The program aimed at elite cyclists wiling to continue their professional sports career as a management and supporting person in cycling clubs. Implementation Аll the planned activities were carried out as follows: -setting up cooperation in a network of interested parties - research-developing and implementing guidelines and an online education and training platform; -creating a best practice handbook establishment of a multinational awareness-raising strategy and the promotion of synergies between the sport area and the areas of education, training and health care for young people; - organizing conferences, seminars, meetings, events Achievements The results that we aimed for and achieved while implementing the project activities are:-summarize, analyze and develop an innovative three-dimensional program -implement new mechanisms for identifying, attracting and managing volunteers -developed Guidelines, Handbook and on-line platform-broadly popularized the intellectual outcomes of the project through national and international events, conferences, sports and media events.