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The Universidad Católica San Antonio (“Saint Anthony Catholic University”), also known as the Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), is a private university located in Murcia in Spain. Founded in 1996 by José Luis Mendoza Pérez.

The University of Rome “Foro Italico” is the only Italian and one of the few European vocational universities entirely devoted to sports and exercise sciences. The University is the direct heir of the Italian Sport Academy, established in 1928, and it is located in the monumental area of Foro Italico in Rome. It was created in 1998 as Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie IUSM, when it replaced Rome’s Istituto Superiore di Educazione Fisica (ISEF), whose activity had been focused on higher education for Ph.E. teachers. IUSM, now “Foro Italico University” extended the ISEF’s scope, to cover all the fields of interest related to human physical activity: scientific research, coaching for recreational sports and for high level competitive sports, teaching, fitness, re-education and rehabilitation, organisation of sport events, management of sports facilities, etc.

The University of Limerick (UL) is an independent, internationally focused university with over 14,000 students and 1,400 staff. It is a young, energetic and enterprising university with a proud record of innovation in education and excellence in research and scholarship. Its mission is to promote and advance learning and knowledge through teaching, research and scholarship in an environment which encourages innovation and upholds the principles of free enquiry and expression.

The National University of Physical Education and Sports Bucharest (UNFES), one of oldest public institutions founded in Europe, in 1923, offers each year degree programs – bachelor, master and doctoral programs, for about 1100 students, in the physical education, sports and kinesitherapy areas of studies. The high level of educational services are recognized by the Romanian Agency of Quality in Higher Education (ARACIS).

The creation of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, on 26th December 1979, through the Governmental Act-of-Law nº513-T/7, is clearly framed by the broader philosophy which supported the successful implementation of polytechnic higher education in our country. The widening of higher education to the whole territory, in a logic of combating the concentration in the main coast cities, and the innovation made possible by a closer contact between the training institutions and the surrounding community, seem to have been two of the factors that have driven forward the creation of polytechnic higher education in Portugal and, particularly, in the region of Viseu.

The European Athlete as Student network is a non-profit organisation registered in Malta, founded during the European Year of Education Through Sport in 2004 with the support of the European Commission. Including its President, EAS has nine board members from nine European Member States. Its membership scheme is open for universities, sports schools and other educational establishments interested in high performance sport and also for sports clubs and federations which are willing to support their athletes in their studies.

Social enterprise based in Oslo, Norway. COLLINN’s mission is to create positive change on society through innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of sport, wellbeing, education and social issues. COLLINN was launched in 2017 as a digital initiative to contribute to the strengthening of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in the sport field. In May 2017, COLLINN established an international working group called “Sport Innovation Working Group”. Members of this working group consist of educators, researchers, project developers and volunteers at various levels, including Norway, Poland, France and the United States. In 2018, COLLINN took a step from the digital world to the real world, and developed innovative projects in the field of sport, education and societal challenges. COLLINN took part as an ”expert partner” in three projects supported by the European Commission on dual career of athletes, sport entrepreneurship and innovation, including social innovation and entrepreneurship. In the SPINENT project (http://spinent.eu ), which was held in 2018-2019, COLLINN took part in the development of the intellectual outputs on SportsTech. Also, COLLINN organized a Pilot Scheme (5 -days teaching learning activity) for young sport entrepreneur candidates in Murcia, Spain, together with UCAM (ES). COLLINN conducted research to find out the training needs of athletes, coaches, sports managers in SENTA (http://dualcareer.net ) and SPIN-VET (http://spin-vet.com) projects supported by the European Commission. In these projects, where UCAM (ES) is partner organization too, COLLINN also developed a training curriculum on technological and social entrepreneurship for elite athletes and sports professionals.

The EPC is a European non-profit-making organisation which operates under Austrian law due to its registration in Vienna. EPC is supported by the European Union and the Austrian Government. The purpose of the EPC is to promote and defend the collective interest of European athletes with disabilities as represented by their National Paralympic Committee (NPC) or equivalent national body, International Organisation of Sports for the Disabled or International Paralympic Sport Federation in membership of EPC, without discrimination on the grounds of religion, economics, disability, gender, language or ethnic origin.

Fundación ONCE was founded and launched into society in September of 1988 as an instrument of cooperation and solidarity from the Spanish blind towards other collectives of people with disabilities in order to improve their living conditions. The principal objective of Fundación Once is to implement programmes of work-related training and employment for the social inclusion of people with disabilities, and the promotion of universal accessibility through the creation of universally accessible environments, products and services. Fundación ONCE it is one of the main social entities in Spain that works in the field of the inclusion of persons with disabilities and all Spanish public entities related to disability are represented in its Board of Trustees.