Apr 15, 2014
EU Athletes is launching today the first ever #EUSportIntegrityDay. A transnational initiative from player associations on the education of athletes on the risks of match fixing.
For more than four years now, EU Athletes in cooperation with EGBA, RGA and ESSA have created a unique programme to educate professional athletes on the risks surrounding match fixing.
In 2013 the European Commission decided to co-finance this initiative with the PROtect Integrity project. After more than a year of implementation 14.000 professionnal athletes in Europe have been reached by player associations.
This project helped us to gather key stats in order to define the size of the problem :
– 55% of the players reached didn’t knew the rules before the visit of the player association.
– 83% think it’s important they receive a more regular information on match-finxing.
-91% are more aware of the importance of reporting suspicious activities.
By launching the first ever #EUSportIntegrityDay on Social Media, EUAthletes will highlight the quantity and quality of the work done by the player associations. Our role is crucial : protect our sport and educate athletes of tomorrow.
By: eu athletes
Mar 14, 2014
The final meeting of the PROtect Integrity Project was held in Amsterdam (NL) earlier this week.
The entire EU Athletes staff of “PROtect Integrity” Poject was in Amsterdam, earlier this week to discuss about the partial results of the 18 months education programme delivered by the players Union members of EU Athletes and financially supported by the gaming industry (EGBA, ESSA, RGA) and the European Commission.
After more than a year of implementation, all the associations have delivered a tremendous job, by meeting the players directly in the locker rooms, teaching them about the risks of match fixing and implementing a addiction survey with the help of CRJE.
The staff will now compile the results gathered by all the association and evaluate the work done in order to prepare a draft of the final report that will be submitted to the European Commission early in the summer.
By: EU Athletes
Mar 11, 2014
For the 3rd time the Steering group of UNI SPORT PRO meet in Amsterdam to discuss important issues for athletes worldwide.
This week in the new FIFPRO office UNI SPORT PRO is holding his 3rd Steering committee meeting. Around the table, player associations form around the world discussing important topics and issues for professional athletes.
The first day was dedicated to a tour de table of the issues associations are facing at the moment. EUAthletes highlighted his projects on integrity and dual career with co financing from the European commission but also all the policy work that has been done in Brussels over the last year.
The second day “morning session” was focusing on integrity in sport with a EU Athletes presentation on the EPAS convention “against the manipulation of sports competitions”. Really interesting exchanges took place to define a common strategy worldwide for player associations on the implementation of the convention that could be submitted to the Council of Minister in September in 2014.
By: EU Athletes
Mar 6, 2014
Last week 20 EU Athletes members were in Brussels to discuss about Player development and transition for athletes.
EU Athletes PDM project “Improving player associations support for dual career” will run in 2014 with the financial support of the European commission.
Brussels was the first stop of the year for the 20 player associations. During the 3 days seminar they have been able to discuss with the EU sports unit and exchange on various topics such as :
– support for dual career services
– measurement of effective programmes
– how to collect funding
– dual career and young athletes.
Part of the project for the association will be to conduct some job shadwing with other associations taking part in the project. The Speed networking event gave them the unique opportunity to define where they were planing to go as part of this exchange.
each association will travel for 3 days to see in action how others associations are dealing with the issue of dual career for athletes and take some best practices back to there own association.
By: EU Athletes
Feb 16, 2014
For the first time ever the council of Europe and EU athletes are working closely together for the EU financed project on protection of minors PSS.
Promoting the physical and mental well-being of young athletes
Experts from all over Europe met from 28 to 29 January 2014 in Vienna, Austria, to discuss strategies to promote the physical, mental and social well-being of emerging athletes. The conference in the Austrian House of Sport was the first of many activities which will be implemented in the framework of the initiative “Pro Safe Sport (PSS)” of the EPAS, which is supported by an EU grant.
“We are very happy to co-operate with important stakeholders in the field of sport, coaches, medicine and education”, stated Stanislas Frossard, Executive Secretary of the EPAS. “This mix of experts from various sectors will guarantee that the tools produced during the project will be relevant on the one hand and practical on the other”. The project will produce a homepage providing ample information on health and safety issues as well as an educational toolkit which shall guide stakeholders, such as sport organisations and coaches, in promoting and safeguarding the physical, mental and social well-being of young athletes.
In unison, the conference participants declared their enthusiasm and commitment to work together on this important topic for the benefit of emerging athletes.
Dec 18, 2013
All the player associations participating in the project are in the middle of the team meetings. They have done a great job so far.
Player associations are still completing their team visits. The key messages are being delivered in the face to face education with the athletes. All countries have completed almost half of their meeting with players and the feedback is really positive so far.
The use of electronic device is a real improvement for the understanding of the key points and posters are more effective than ever with the flash code that can be directly scanned for more information.
CRJE in Nantes will start early in January to evaluate the addiction survey and results should be published in may 2014.
