The SOPROS Project Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of its Evaluation Report, marking a major milestone in the Erasmus+ project SOPROS – Social Protection in Olympic Sports. The comprehensive report assesses the current state of social protection for elite athletes across Europe and provides concrete recommendations for improving fairness, transparency and long-term welfare […]
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SOPROS EU-Level Multi-Stakeholder Workshop in Brussels On June 26, 2025, the SOPROS project brought together over 20 high-level stakeholders from European institutions, national governments, sport organisations and athlete associations for its EU-Level Multi-Stakeholder Workshop in Brussels. One remark from the discussions captured the atmosphere of broad consensus: “I learnt that you can’t be against the
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On April 25, 2025, the second SOPROS Conference titled “Athletes’ Social Protection in Europe: From National Practice to European Coordination?” took place in Zagreb, Croatia. Hosted at Hotel Academia and organised by the Institute of European Sport Development in cooperation with the University of Rijeka, the event brought together experts, athletes, and stakeholders from across
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On 13 and 14 January 2025, the latest project meeting of the Erasmus+ project SOPROS was held in Paris, France. The meeting focused on discussing the project’s current status and planning the next steps for enhancing athletes’ social protection in Olympic sports. Building on the foundations laid during the conference in Cologne in April 2024
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Social protection is a fundamental human right, as recognised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the European Union (EU). Our EU-funded Erasmus+ project, Assessing, Evaluating and Implementing Athletes’ Social Protection in Olympic Sports (SOPROS), is dedicated to addressing this critical issue, with a specific focus on improving the social protection of athletes. The project
The first SOPROS conference held on April 8th, 2024 in Cologne marked a milestone for the Erasmus+ project, focusing on athletes’ social protection. The event convened stakeholders from politics, sports, and academia to present various approaches and deliberate on the future need for a holistic approach of athletes’ social protection in Europe. The SOPROS project
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On 23 and 24 October, the third project meeting of the EU project SOPROS took place in Cascais, Portugal, where the current status and further steps of the project on athletes’ social protection in Olympic sports were discussed. The fact that social protection for athletes in Olympic sports is a topic of immense importance was
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