The final event of the two-year academic EU project ESTPORT (Development an innovative European Sport Tutorship model for the dual career of athletes) was celebrated yesterday June 7, during the XIX Sports Gala of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM).

The president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco opened the event together with the President of the UCAM and member of the Spanish Olympic Committee José Luis Mendoza; President of the Superior Council of Sports José Ramón Lete, and coordinator of the project at the Catholic University Antonio Sánchez. More than 500 participants, including athletes, students, representatives from the world of sport and of government, attended at the Monastery of Los Jerónimos at UCAM.

ESTPORT was born in the heart of the European Union, with the participation of European Universities, from Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain, to carry out a project called “Development of an innovative European model of Sports Tutorials for the dual career of athletes”, which responds to one of the three general objectives of the EU Erasmus+: to promote and support good governance in sport and the dual career of athletes.

The objective in the last two academic years has been to establish a European model that allows universities to help elite athletes so that they can combine their studies with trainings, trips and competitions.

The results of these two years of work are to be found in an official manual in which Artemi Gavezou (Spain), Cameron Corbishley (United Kingdom), Ludovica Serafini (Italy), Amy Micallef (Malta) and Anastasia Galiatsatou (Greece) have set out the main guidelines for developing a system based on the work of dual career tutors of athletes.