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Newsletter Issue #2 - June 2021

Our first Milestone

The project’s main objective is to develop an innovative training approach for veteran athletes that will transfer the skills veteran athletes acquired during their sports career into skills useful for their success in the entrepreneurial and business world, and provide targeted support for veteran athletes who aim to become successful professionals in the labour market or entrepreneurs.
The first goal of the first intellectual output was to “match-make the mindset, attitude, skills, competencies of veteran professional athletes (of all different types) with the needs businesses have in soft skills in different sectors of the economy and develop guidelines on how the transfer of skills can take place from sports to other sectors”.

To reach the above goals the partnership had to complete the following tasks:

  • To understand the needs of business world and the competences of athletes that can be transferred to the entrepreneurial world desk research, interviews and focus group interviews were conducted.
  • The main aim of the desk research was studying the dual career of athletes and get to know more about the topic.
  • In the first round, the aim of the individual interviews was to find out how sportspeople and businesspeople see the skillsets and opportunities of retired athletes in the world of work and what kind of training is needed in general for former sportspeople to pursue successful career in the business.
  • In the second round, mixed groups were formed, and, based on the findings of the first round, the aim of the second phase was to specify the needs (find the competences) for training and the applicable innovative learning approach to facilitate the integration of Veteran/retired athletes into employment, business and entrepreneurship.
  • The Matchmaking tool (MMT) is based on the outputs of the desk research and the action research results. These results were checked against existing models of HR development and Entrepreneurship, such as the Role Diagrammatic Approach, the MBTI, the European Reference Framework, the ENTRECOMP model and the suggestions of the WEF and the OECD. We did this cross-examination in order to double-check if our research missed anything important and to make sure that the training we will develop is supplying a complete circle.
See the connection between the tasks

MAIN FINDINGS SO FAR

Desk research: 

The partnership created a glossary to understand the terms and definitions of the main expressions of the project. The partnership collected articles, studies, best practices, video, different kind of literatures and information about relevant projects in order to understand better the topic.

Interviews: 

The most frequently mentioned competences during the 120 interviews are: 

Focus group interviews: 

Competences which form an important basis for BOUNCEBACK competencies are:

FIRST MAIN OUTPUTS PRODUCED BY THE PROJECT

Match-Making Tool: 

The Match-Making Tool (MMT) is the main result, product of O1. The competence model of the MMT was created based on the results of the two rounds of interviews integrated with the ENTRECOMP model. The content analysis of the data showed several factors that were useful to build up the structure and we found 14 factors that were organized in 7 axes (TEAM PLAYER, CREATIVE, ENTREPRENEUR, RESILIENT, LEADER, ORGANIZER, PROBLEM SOLVER) in order to have a graphic output that is easily understandable. Each axis has two sub-factors and the score of the subskills add up to the axis score. In order to have a valid questionnaire, we decided to use a 6 point scale and statements that define behavior and attitudes. There are 4 statements for each factor in the questionnaire and these build up the score that is displayed on the spider-graph.

During this step we defined the sector profiles and the Bounceback profile’s score that will be compared to the individual’s profile. We defined the five sectors (Agriculture and utilities - primary, Manufacturing and construction - secondary, Services - tertiary, Commerce - distribution of goods, Public / civil sector) based on literature and took the competence descriptions from multiple sources for those sectors, such as the Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community and the International Standard Classification of Occupations.

BOUNCEBACK PROFILE

“The BOUNCEBACK person is a resilient team player who has the ability to sustain specific activities for a longer period and endure stress and hardship. This personality is also characterised by flexibility and creativity. This kind of person is goal-oriented and determined, who is not limited by his/her current situation. He/she knows that his/her hard work will be fruitful. This kind of person is very patient, open-minded and tolerant, recognises the opinions and standpoints of others and can change course adaptively if it is necessary, but cannot be easily dissuaded from his/her goals. 
As a team player, he/she has excellent collaboration skills and is able to work and communicate with others in the best way. Due to their creative personality, he/she has good ideas. His/her thinking is positive and visionary.”

The Match-Making Tool (MMT) is a web-based questionnaire (https://bounceback.pemik.hu) and skill-profile making an application that integrates all the work introduced in the previous sections. It is available in 4 languages. Altogether 56 statements were created. The MMT displays three profiles for an individual after completing the questionnaire: their personal profile, the economic sector’s profile that is the closest to them and the Bounceback profile that is our construction and is the basis of the training module 1.

NEXT STEPS

The further work and tasks of the project will continue based on the first intellectual output. The second intellectual output consists in developing the learning materials that, together with the match-making tool, will complete the BOUNCEBACK training approach that veteran athletes, entrepreneurship coaches/consultants and relevant professional development organisations/bodies will use to transfer the skills of veteran athletes into competencies that ensure success in the business/entrepreneurial world. The learning materials will be organized in 3 modules, available in an online learning environment, covering the steps of the BOUNCEBACK training approach.

 

Bounceback Athletes
Developing an innovative learning approach to facilitate the integration of veteran/retired athletes into employment, business and entrepreneurship
www.bouncebackathletes.eu
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Project number: 2020-1-HU01-KA204-078804

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Project number: 2020-1-HU01-KA204-078804

 






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