The UCAM wins five new international research projects in the field of sport
Through its Faculty of Sport, it will analyse and make proposals, together with institutions from thirteen European Countries, on how to improve in this field through marketing, administration, physical activity inside and outside school, the adaptation of sport for people with disabilities or as a tool for the inclusion of refugees.
The Catholic University of Murcia, through its Faculty of Sport, has been selected during the last call ERASMUS+sport 2019 to participate in five projects related to sport, together with other universities and institutions from Turkey, Italy, Denmark, Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Lithuania, Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland and Holland. All Erasmus+ projects are co-financed by the European Commission. The office of the Region of Murcia in Brussels has congratulated the UCAM on the projects achieved.
In addition, the UCAM is leading one of the projects, ‘Sailing for Disabled People’, through which they will study the use of sailing simulation in people with spinal cord injury. The other projects in which it participates are about innovation in marketing strategy in female teams, skills development in sports management, gamification –a learning technique that transfers the mechanics of games to the educational-professional environment in order to achieve better results– in physical activity inside and outside the school, and social inclusion of refugees through sport.
The Catholic University of Murcia is currently working on 17 sport projects, 10 of which belong to the Erasmus+sport programme from previous calls, to which we now add the five new ones, plus two projects from the Erasmus+Ka2 call. Among the projects led by the University we can find the ‘European Sport Leadership Programme’ (ESLP) to improve the employability of university athletes in Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey; or the LifeAge study on active ageing.