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Project Overview
The major outcome of the project will be to develop nationallymeaningful and European-wide guidelines and policy recommendations on how to plan, deliver and embed employability frameworks in higher education and other forms of education in order to develop an effective and sustainable sport management workforce to continue to govern and run a sport industry that promotes economic development and healthenhancing physical activity and social welfare across Europe
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Objectives
06.Policy
To develop policy recommendations for government, federations and associations which are involved in sport employability and workforce policy formulation (local, regional and international level). This will include exploring critical social, political and economic environments that shape employability across the European sport sector.
05.Toolkit
To develop a digital toolkit with the best practices for developing employability within and outside of higher education curriculum delivery. These digital guides, eresources, recorded webinars and support videos will benefit sport management academics and employers who engage in collaborative work based or work-related learning interventions with educational partners. The guidelines will also be used as educational material for university students.
04.Practice
Investigate Higher Education best practice in developing sport management students employability, career development, enterprise skills and entrepreneurial intentions across the European Union. This will include engaging with cross disciplinary communities of practice to release a best practice review for academic and industry stakeholders inclusive of how professional or management skills and competences frameworks are embedded in curriculum design.
01.Students
Measure pre-professional sport management students’ attitudes towards career intensions, career readiness, professional identity, entrepreneurial intensions, entrepreneurial orientation and self-assessment of skills and competencies.
02.Managers
Measure port managers’ (Frontline, Middle and Top Managers) from a variety of sport contexts (Community sport, Elite sport, Public, Private, Not for profit, Voluntary Sector) and backgrounds (gender, age) attitudes towards career development, appropriateness of talent development pathways, entrepreneurial intensions, entrepreneurial orientation and self-assessment of skills and competencies.
03Leaders
To study indicative examples of a range (gender, age) of expert (top/executive) sport managers career history/trajectories from across Europe. This study will explore what critical development decisions, education (formal/informal), career path preferences and critical experiences shaped their success resulting in the identification of common key factors that can assist the development of employability and career development strategies for pre-professional (student) and early career managers in the sport industry.
