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Virtual reality to explore safeguarding in sport: BESST steps onto unseen grounds

May 19, 2025 / BESST 2.0 Project, EOA news, Research

Virtual reality (VR) already found its way into sports decades ago, particularly in areas such as injury prevention, rehabilitation, skill refinement, mental health, cognitive functioning, and psychological skill development. However, a preliminary literature review conducted as part of the Erasmus+ project Building European Safe Sport Together 2.0 (BESST 2.0) reveals a significant gap: the use of VR […]

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From Policy to Practice: How BESST 2.0 is going to Digitalise Safeguarding in Sport

February 10, 2025 / BESST 2.0 Project, BESST Project, Research

The European Olympic Academies (EOA) recently launched BESST 2.0 – Building European Safe Sport Together, an ambitious Erasmus+ project co-funded by the European Union. This project builds on the extensive research and developed tools and frameworks of the predecessor project, BESST 1.0, and aims to enhance safeguarding measures in European sports, ensuring a safer and

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From Insight to Impact: Help Shaping the Future of Social Protection in Sports with SOPROS!

November 21, 2024 / Research, SOPROS

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

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Key Findings Reveal European Sports Organisations Are in Early Development Stage in Safeguarding Readiness

November 4, 2024 / BESST Project, EOA news, Research

Research conducted by the Building European Safe Sport Together (BESST) project indicates that the majority of European sports organisations are still in the infancy stage of safeguarding readiness. These findings highlight the essential need for prioritisation and resources to strengthen awareness and capacity for effective safeguarding measures and, most importantly, to drive a culture change

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Conference logbook pt. 4: adapting to changes

February 27, 2023 / Conference Logbook, EOA Congress, EOA news, Research

By Inga Galstian, EOA editor As part of the EOA Congress in November, the EOA hosted a conference in which several important issues were addressed. The three previous sessions on Politics & Peace, Sustainability and Integrity were documented in this Conference Logbook series. The final session of the day concerned credibility. Stefan Klos and Alexandre

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Conference logbook pt. 3: steps to take for fair play and safe sport

January 20, 2023 / Conference Logbook, EFPM, EOA Congress, Research

By Inga Galstian, EOA editor The EOA held its annual congress in Frankfurt in November 2022. During the congress, a handful of current challenges within the Olympic Movement were addressed in a series of conferences. Two conferences on the topics of Politics & Peace, and Sustainability have previously been reported on in the Conference Logbook

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Conference logbook pt. 2: steering towards sustainability

December 22, 2022 / Conference Logbook, EOA Congress, Research

By Inga Galstian, EOA editor Little seems as relevant as climate change and its consequences at the present time. Humanity finds itself in the midst of a so-called “triple planetary crisis”. It is not without reason that researchers call attention to the urgency of tackling this crisis and governments, institutions and politicians sit down to

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Klaipeda Conference Proceeding now available to download

December 14, 2022 / EOA Seminars, Research

The lectures given by renowned academics at our recent seminar are now available online. The print edition of “The Olympic Movement for international understanding and peace” was exclusively distributed to the EOA Members in November. Now, the collection of five brilliant lectures can be downloaded directly from the EOA website. The EOA has retained some

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Conference logbook pt. 1: politics & peace – the fine line that sport must walk

December 9, 2022 / Conference Logbook, EOA Congress, Research

By Inga Galstian, EOA editor In difficult times like the present, political issues permeate our everyday lives. The importance to fight for peace is becoming more and more prevalent, and consequently, roles are also being reconsidered and redistributed. This begs the question: how can such a social entity like sport contribute to peace or what

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Pursuing The Spread of Human Rights Education Through the Olympic Movement

June 9, 2022 / Research

The topic of human rights education through the Olympic Movement was dissected and researched by Rebekka Lang Fuentes in her master’s thesis, which is a study that aims at exploring how present this call is in contemporary European Olympic Education and what similarities and differences exist between different countries.

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