Mar 7, 2013
EU Athlete’s Jonas Baer-Hoffmann, gave a presentation to the European Peoples Party’s working group on sport. The session concerned “Dual careers and welfare of athletes”. In attendance of approximately 40 MEPs and Parliamentarian staff, the presentation highlighted the difficulties encountered by athletes in their career transition, highlighted the important role player unions play on this topic and gave examples of good practice – the FIFPro Online Academy, the GPA Player Development Program as well as Career Funds.
Nov 22, 2012
UNI Global Sport Pro, the professional sport department of UNI Global Union run by former EU Athletes GS Walter Palmer, held the second World Athletes Summit in Nyon Switzerland on 15-17 November.
The Summit is the annual meeting place for players associations and athlete trade unions from around the world. Participants included EU Athletes and some of our members, FIFPro, IRPA, FICA, Australian Athletes Alliance, the US player associations of NFL, NBA and NHL players and many more.
During the three day conference participants discussed the way forward for the establishment of a global federation of player associations, career transition and (mental) health of athletes, anti doping, match fixing and organizing and engaged in an exchange with the vice chair of the IOC athletes commission Adam Pengilly.
Oct 31, 2012
As part of the European Commission funded project “FOCUS on Athletes”, EU Athletes together with an international research institute is conducting a survey on the working conditions of professional athletes in Europe. Amongst the sports taken into view are basketball, ice hockey, handball and rugby – both male and female.
The survey results will give an in-depth view into the professional, educational and sporting aspects of pro-athletes’ careers. A similar survey conducted by the Union Basketteurs d’Europe (UBE) in 2009 delivered valuable facts and knowledge for the development of European Sport Policies.
Above a picture of players filling out the questionnaires during a team-visit of the French Basketball Players Association -SNB.
