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      Promoting dual careers at higher education institutions: 31 benefits ranked by the project Student Athletes Erasmus+ Mobility in Europe (SAMEurope)

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          Abstract

          Introduction

          The project Student Athletes Erasmus+ Mobility in Europe identified and defined a total of 31 benefits offered to dual-career student athletes who are combining their university studies with high-level training. The project was co-funded by the European Union and carried out by five universities: Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon (France), University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), and Universitat Jaume I (Spain).

          Methods

          The purpose of the study was to rank these benefits by combining the perspectives of the university staff and the student athletes from each university in the consortium. The university staff included experts from sports services and the international relations office. A questionnaire was also sent to the dual-career athletes enrolled at the consortium's universities. Of the 514 dual-career athletes, 208 (116 women) completed the questionnaire. The overall response rate was 40.47%. The university staff assessed the importance of each benefit, how easy it was to implement at the institution, and whether or not the university offered the benefit to its students. The dual-career students rated each of the 31 benefits and indicated whether or not they had used them. A specific methodology was designed to rank these benefits using the ratings of the university staff and the student athletes. Intra-group and inter-group Pearson correlations were performed.

          Results

          The results show a strong and significant correlation between the benefits from the perspective of the university staff ( r = 0.710, p = 7.76E-7) and from the perspective of the students ( r = 0.715, p = 2.44E-6). The correlation is moderate and significant when the benefits are correlated from the perspective of the two groups as a whole (0.363, p = 0.045), with the three most important benefits being the free use of sports facilities, justification for absences, and the adaptation of the pace of studies.

          Discussion

          The study makes visible the commitment of higher education institutions to facilitating the dual career of student athletes and identifies those benefits that may be of greater interest to European universities as a whole. The European perspective has been considered, while respecting the specificities of each university and the country in which it is located.

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                Carlos Hernando Domingo: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/2626665/overviewRole: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Marta Renau Michavila: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/2698777/overviewRole: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Per Thorén: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/2743678/overviewRole: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Johan Bankel: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/2759718/overviewRole: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Magnus Karlsteen: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1902039/overviewRole: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Sami Kalaja: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Minna Rasinaho: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Aki Karjalainen: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Swantje Scharenberg: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Pascale Kohler: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Florian Agneray: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Alexia Deflon: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/2743685/overviewRole: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Dorothée Brac de la Perriere: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                María Pilar Marín Gil: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Sports Act Living
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Front Sports Act Living
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Sports Act. Living
                Title: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
                Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
                ISSN (Electronic): 2624-9367
                Publication date (Electronic): 01 July 2024
                Publication date Collection: 2024
                Volume: 6
                Electronic Location Identifier: 1407194
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ]Sports Service, Department of Education and Specific Didactics, Universitat Jaume I , Castellón, Spain
                [ 2 ]Sports Service, Department of Translation and Communication, Universitat Jaume I , Castellón, Spain
                [ 3 ]Education Management Support, Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg, Sweden
                [ 4 ]Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg, Sweden
                [ 5 ]Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä , Jyväskylä, Finland
                [ 6 ]Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe, Germany
                [ 7 ]International Affairs, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe, Germany
                [ 8 ]Sport Centre, Institut national des sciences Appliquées de Lyon , Villeurbanne, France
                [ 9 ]European and International Relations Office, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon , Villeurbanne, France
                [ 10 ]Sports Service, Universitat Jaume I , Castellón, Spain
                Author notes

                Edited by: Flavia Guidotti, Università telematica San Raffaele, Italy

                Reviewed by: Andrea Fusco, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy

                Corrado Lupo, University of Turin, Italy

                [* ] Correspondence: Carlos Hernando Domingo hernando@ 123456uij.es Swantje Scharenberg swantje.scharenberg@ 123456kit.edu
                Article
                DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1407194
                PMC ID: 11246954
                PubMed ID: 39011349
                SO-VID: ec145317-4e26-4e5c-ad8e-60300614cb12
                Copyright © © 2024 Hernando Domingo, Renau Michavila, Thorén, Bankel, Karlsteen, Kalaja, Rasinaho, Karjalainen, Scharenberg, Kohler, Agneray, Deflon, Brac de la Perriere and Marín Gil.
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                Date received : 26 March 2024
                Date accepted : 06 June 2024
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 5, Equations: 0, References: 37, Pages: 13, Words: 0
                Funding
                Funded by: European Commission under the Erasmus + Programme
                Award ID: 101050378
                The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
                This work was supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme (Project number 101050378). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
                Categories
                Subject: Sports and Active Living
                Subject: Original Research
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                section-at-acceptance Sports Management, Marketing, and Economics

                Keywords: dual career,benefits,universities,elite sport,athletes,sameurope
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