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The Faculty of Sports of the UCAM, Europe's leader in Erasmus + Sport projects (02/02/2019)

Finland, Norway, Germany, Holland, Greece, Macedonia, Italy or Turkey are some of the countries of different universities and institutions working together with the UCAM in European projects.

The Faculty of Sports of the Catholic University of Murcia has become the protagonist of Erasmus + Sport participating in eleven of the projects approved in 2018. There is no university in Europe that is immersed in so many works of this type.

Antonio Sánchez Pato, dean of the Faculty of Sports, recalls how the machinery was put into operation to turn the UCAM into a European benchmark: "In January 2015 we started the first project funded by the European Union that was about Dual Career where the UCAM presented its model of sports tutoring that was already successful at that time, allowing high level athletes to combine their careers and their academic career.The support of the Spanish Olympic Committee has always been key here The alliance formed by our president, José Luis Mendoza, and the president of the COE, Alejandro Blanco, has really favored the athletes who are giving everything for our country and do not want to abandon their studies.We take this model to four other European universities in the United Kingdom, Greece, Malta and Italy One of the publications of this project was presented to 'European Athletics', winning the first prize in the Innovation category ".

From there, the UCAM, and more specifically its Faculty of Sports, has become a reference in this type of calls: "We have understood that Erasmus + Sport projects must be one of our main objectives. Currently, there are twenty projects that we participate in. We must highlight the success rate that we are obtaining because the average is around 20% and we in the 2018 call participated in thirteen projects, eleven of which obtained funding. Let's overcome 20%, we're close to 90%. "

This volume of work and the results that are being obtained have been reflected in the treatment of the EU towards the Catholic University itself: "In Europe they understand that the UCAM is a very active institution and that it is a reliable partner, with good resources of researchers, teachers and managers and therefore we are a model to follow, there is no university that has so many projects awarded in this area. "

Under the name of Erasmus + Sport, the European Union shuffles a series of projects that have as their central axis sport but that branches into many issues of interest: "The dual career is a very important issue on which we have focused our efforts but we have been working in other areas such as social inclusion and volunteering. "

A key concept is the usefulness of everything that is being done so that it is reflected in real policies that reach society: "We have already published several books that are examples of good ways of working on the topics that have been discussed. there is a twinning between the various European universities, generating mobility between the different countries and creating a true cultural and knowledge exchange ".

Source: UCAM

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