EASE CONFERENCE

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EASE CONFERENCE 18th May 2006
The European Observatoire of Sport and
Employment (EOSE) Steve Studd-Allan
Pilkington-Aurélien Favre
Meeting Venue Papendal
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STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION Part 1
1- EOSE Mission, Background and Structure 2-
EOSE activities with EASE and the sports sector
stakeholders
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EOSE MISSIONS

• EOSE is an European network of national
  observatories, public or not for profit, which
  are involved in research on sport development,
  sport employment qualification and training
• The aim of EOSE is to promote a dialogue between
  employment and education at the national and
  European level between public authorities,
  umbrella sports organisations, training
  providers, social partners and research
  organisations.

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EOSE STRUCTURE

• An association of national and regional
  observatories on sports and employment in the
  E.U.
• 11 full members
• National correspondents in countries without
  members
• Close connection with/control by key European
  stakeholders of the sports sector

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EOSE ACTIVITIES

• NEARS, NEORS European classifications for sports
  and sports related activities and occupations ()
  in cooperation with Eurostat (1998)
• Identification of skills and activities at the
  European level in different sport occupations
  P.E. Teacher (1996), Sport Managers (1997),
  Mountain Guides (1997), Exercise Fitness
  instructors (1999), Basketball coaches (1999),
  Life Guards (1999)
• "Sport and Employment in the European Union
  report made by request of the European
  Commission Sports Unit (1999).
• Situation of the social dialogue in the sport
  sector in E.U. countries towards a sport sectoral
  dialogue committee? Research for the Directorate
  General of Employment and Social Affairs of the
  European Commission in collaboration with
  UNI-Europa (2002)

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RECENT PROJECTS RUN BY EOSE

•  VOCASPORT  vocational education and training
  in sports in the 25 Countries of E.U.
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/sport/documents/lotvoc
  asport.pdf
•  Euroseen  a methodology to analyse and
  conduct workforce development in the sports
  sector
• http//www.euroseen.net

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EOSE contribution to a European Sports Workforce
Development Plan - European Observatoire of
Sport and Employment (EOSE) -
Meeting Venue Papendal
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STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION Part 2
1- The Euroseen project objectives and
outcomes2- A methodology for the conception and
running of WDPs3- A  European sports workforce
development committee 4- A draft European
sports workforce development plan?5- A working
agenda for the sports WDP ?
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1- THE EUROSEEN PROJECT- Objectives and Outcomes
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• Provided a methodology for the conception and
  developing of WDPs for the sports sector
• Testing that methodology in subsectors or sports
  disciplines in some E.U. member states

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2- Methodology for the conceiving, developing and
running of WDPs

• Workforce Development defined as activities
  which increase the capacity of individuals to
  participate effectively in the workplace (or any
  volunteer activity), thereby improving their
  productivity and employability
• Workforce development is meant to serve
  individual, organisational and societal goals

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MODEL OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
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A methodology for the conceiving, developing and
running a WDPs first step

• Define a leading body (key stakeholders)
• Define a sectoral and territorial area (and
  relations with other levels of planning)
• Define a timescale (short, medium and long term
  2 years, 4 years, 8 years? )

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3- A European Sport Workforce Developement
Council  ESWDC

• The  pilot body  for European sports workforce
  development (NGOs)
• EASE and UNI-Europa (social partners)
• EOC and ENGSO (sports organisations)
• ENSSEE (training providers)
• - EHFA (sub sectoral pilot organisation)
• EOSE (Sector Observatoire)

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Public authorities also to be concerned

• European Commission (Sports unit, Education
  policy unit, Employment and social affairs unit)
• European Informal Council and Presidency of
  Sports
• European parliament (Education and culture
  committee)

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4- A Draft European Sports Sector Workforce
Development Plan
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Model Structure

• Industry Statistic - Organisations, Workers
• The jobs, the skills, the competences
• Training Statistics Programmes, Students
• Outcomes of Programmes
• Mapping of Industry need against Training
  Provision
• Action Plan to bring both in harmony

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Sport and Sport related activities
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Participation rates in Sport(15 countries)
EUROBAROMETER
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Participation rates / GDP
RATE PARTICIPATION
GDP

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Sport Employment / Active Population
Source Vocasport (2004)
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Sport Employment in Europe
Source Vocasport (2004)
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Growth of sport employment
Source Vocasport (2004)
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SPORT OCCUPATIONSOver 800,000 employed in the
Sector

• "professional sports persons", (around 50 000 in
  the E.U. countries as their main activity)
• "sports officials", (a limited number of 500)
• "sports activity leaders", (around 100 000
  people)
• "sports instructors", (an estimate of 450 000)
• "sports coaches" (around 150 000).
• Sports Volunteers ( estimated at 10 Million )

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SPORT-RELATED OCCUPATIONS

• professional managers of sports or sports-related
  organisations
• sports doctors
• physical education and sports teachers in the
  school environment
• sports journalists and other specialists in
  communication through or on sport
• physiotherapists specialised in sport
• agents or promoters of events or professional
  sportspersons
• sellers of sports goods
• caretakers of sports facilities and other
  reception staff
• maintenance workers of sports facilities.

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Qualifications and Training
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Levels of qualification in the sector
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Yearly  graduates  per levels
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Yearly graduates / workforce reality
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4- Key Drivers for Change
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Key challenges for sports workforce (1)

• ?A high level of diversity of the qualifications
  
• provide a tool enabling individuals,
  employers and training providers to compare
  qualifications at national and European level
• ?A high degree of European mobility in some
  sports occupations, most of them being regulated
• bring more transparency and mutual trust on
  qualification assessment in the sports sector

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Key challenges for sports workforce (2)

• ?Short and split careers in an more and more
  demanding industry
• Promoting the lifelong learning process is
  one of the key issues for the sports sector
  workforce at the European, National and Local
  levels
• ? High presence of volunteers or volunteerism
  with poor recognition of informal learning
• The development of the validation of
  non-formal and informal learning is of particular
  interest for the sports sector
• ? Global poor adaptation of the training systems
  to those challenges and weak influence of
  stakeholders (social partners) on their
  configuration
• Organise cooperation between stakeholders
  for a better governance of the training systems

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Action Plan - timeline
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5- A working agenda for the sport WDP Group?

• A first meeting of the ESWDC (EQF consultation)
  21st December 2005 Brussels
• A second meeting the 19th May 2006 (Papendal)
• Piloting of projects foreseen for 2006-2008
  (Sectoral experimentation of the EQF and Leonardo
   EQF-Sports  project)
• Relation with subsectoral Leonardo projects
  (fitness, outdoors) and the Aehesis project
  (higher education)

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TO CONTACT US EOSE Secretariat/ Mr Aurelien
Favre Castlewood House 77-91, New Oxford
Street London WC1A 1PX UK  Tel 33 (0) 4
72 43 12 62/ Fax [phone] e-mail
eosesec_at_eose.org
For Further Information, Visit our Website
www.eose.org
Aurelien Favre www.eose.org
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