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Elite athletes undergo tremendous volumes of training, which often collide with educational commitments. A dual career (i.e., the successful combination of elite sport and education) is a multifactorial complex, influenced by individual (i.e. talent and psychological characteristics), interpersonal (i.e., social support and cultural custom), environmental (i.e. access and availability to tools/services), and policy (i.e., national and international normative) aspects. Across Europe, discrepancies in dual career policies determine different career paths in student-athletes. To protect their right to combine sport and education, European policy-makers have encouraged EU Member States to support student-athletes at local level by providing EU Guidelines on Dual Careers of Athletes and key action strategies. Within such framework, the European Athlete as Student Network ("EAS") has, since 2004, actively supported EU efforts in promoting dual career by providing a platform for a better dialogue between educational bodies (i.e., universities, high schools, sports schools) and sport organisations (i.e. clubs and federations). Through encouraging networking between institutions, EAS aims to unify partners involved in high performance sport and education, promote the exchange of dual career best practices, strengthen the link between educational institutions and sports organisations and support and initiate projects and research on dual career.
Key words: dual career, EAS, athlete
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Vrhunski sportniki opravijo ogromno kolicino treninga, kar je pogosto tezko uskladiti z izobrazevalnimi obveznostmi. Dvojna kariera (uspesna kombinacija vrhunskega sporta in izobrazevanja) je vec dimenzionalni proces, ki je pod vplivom posameznika (talent in psiholoske znacilnosti), medosebnih odnosov (socialna podpora in kulturni obicaji), okolja (dostop in razpolozljivost storitev) in politike (nacionalni in mednarodni normativi). Zaradi razlicnih pristopov do dvojne kariere sportnikov v razlicnih evropskih drzavah prihaja do razlicnih kariernih poti sportnikov. Da bi zascitili pravice sportnikov do socasnega ukvarjanja s sportom in izobrazevanjem, so evropski oblikovalci politike zaceli spodbujati drzave clanice EU, naj podprejo studente sportnike na lokalni ravni in sicer tako, da sledijo smernicam EU o dvojni karieri sportnikov in kljucnim ukrepom. Znotraj tega okvira, od leta 2004 Evropska mreza za studente sportnike ("EAS") dejavno podpira prizadevanja EU pri spodbujanju dvojne kariere z zagotavljanjem platforme za boljsi dialog med izobrazevalnimi ustanovami (univerze, visoke sole, sportne sole) in sportnimi organizacijami (klubi in sportne zveze). S spodbujanjem mrezenja med institucijami zeli EAS poenotiti partnerje, ki sodelujejo v okviru vrhunskega sporta in izobrazevanja,...