EURO-SPEVET “European survey on Sport Employment and Vocational Education and Training” (Call for proposal EAC/61/2006)
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Organisation of the project
EOSE – Promoter responsible for whole management of the project
EOSE + EOSE Management Board gathering expert researchers = Project Management Group
ALLIANCE
– 5 partners: ENGSO, EHFA, EASE, ENSSEE, EOC = Advisory group involved
in consultation, validation and dissemination processes
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NATIONAL PARTNERS – EOSE full and provisional members representing 9
countries (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Ireland, Belgium,
Netherlands, Greece) and 2 correspondents (Finland and Hungary) – data
providers, leaders of national surveys, attend meetings and final
conference, disseminate…
16 CORRESPONDENTS THROUGH EOSE NETWORK – not official partners but will work through EOSE – data providers |
Rationale and Background
The
sports sector represents a group of varied activities and services
ranging from organised competition within clubs as a means of training
and education, to the events put on by professional sportspeople,
leisure sporting pursuits practiced for pleasure or fitness purposes,
and the use of sports to boost social integration of population groups
in difficult circumstances. Together, these largely interdependent
practices concern over half of European citizens, with nearly a million
employees working in the field as their main professional activity
(employment has grown by nearly 60% in 10 years) and almost 10 million
volunteers throughout the European Union.
Going beyond the
differences in "sporting systems" that we observe in member states
(i.e. the unequal importance given to the various players, sports
association movements, public authorities, private entrepreneurs,
social partners, etc. as regards managing sport), we propose, in line
with the Lisbon objectives in the field of sport, to make the European
sporting systems and their various components the most high-performance
systems in the world by 2010.
This sector cannot be developed
optimally without improving the qualification of those who coordinate
it, whether professionally or voluntarily. At present, there tends to
be an opposition within vocational training and education in the field
of sport, between the low-level, barely formalised practical training
courses and the high-level academic courses which do not always match
the needs expressed in the job market. VET has to be used and promoted
as an essential tool for providing European citizens with knowledge,
skills and competences required in the sport labour market.
By
applying the principles expressed by the Copenhagen declaration on
vocational training in Europe, which are to strengthen cooperation in
VET in Europe and improve quality, image and attractiveness of VET,
significant progress could be made in this sector whilst making it
easier to share the most successful European experiences. By
emphasising lifelong training, the validation of informal learning, the
development of sandwich courses and apprenticeships, the assessment of
the quality of courses with a view to transparency of qualifications,
and credit transfer, the European vocational training and education
policy constitutes a real challenge for joint mobilisation and
conciliation of the two types of training that we have mentioned.
Knowing
the major role of VET on economic growth, development of employment and
achievement of social objectives. Although we are dealing with a sector
that is young and relatively disparate as regards the characteristics
of the organisations/companies comprising it, major constructive work
has been carried out at European level. In addition to the national and
European public authorities, this concerns the sports association
movement, training institutions and social partners, all of which are
acting both within their own realms of responsibility and in close
collaboration with one another.
In this context, it is not
unrealistic to propose to make vocational training in the field of
sport a model of European cooperation using the European Qualification
(EQF) to boost the cultural, economic and social development of the
sector and become a worldwide reference in the field by 2010.
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Aims
The sports sector is at the leading edge of development in relation to
the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and the development of Units and
credits at the European level within the vocational training system. The aim of
the project is to provide benchmark research that will enable the sector to
measure the changes that take place as the sports sector aligns itself fully
with the EQF by 2010. The research will attempt to cover all the major aspects
of sports employment, vocational education and training (VET) which in turn
will provide comparative data across the 27 member states in some aspects and a
more detailed analytical approach in at least nine of those countries
identified.
Objectives
The objectives of this research are to strengthen the research network in
the sport sector in Europe and to provide
comparative data across the following areas:
1. The broad national situation and systems of education and training,
the sports systems, key stakeholders, decision makers and the political
restrictions of these systems across member states.
2. The impact of sport on the economic, health and social dimensions of
member states with particular reference to research around participation in
sport and its impact on the health of the nation.
3. Sport Employment across member states will be examined identifying the
range, size and footprint of enterprises and people employed their patterns of
work and particularly reflecting on job satisfaction, mobility of workers and
skills gaps and shortages across the sector.
4. Evaluation of the responses of VET sports training systems and
programmes identifying what impact the EQF has had and is likely to have on the
national and sports training systems with quantitative analysis on the range of
training programmes, graduates within them and the relationship to job
availability and the needs of the market. Also VET qualitative analysis
highlighting good practices, innovative teaching approaches, trends and
perspectives.
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