After the success of the last edition, the RED programme resumes its meetings to promote sports employability and young talent
Good news for the sports industry and employability in the sector. This Wednesday, 21 February, Universidad Europea kicked off the second edition of RED, the Sports Employability Network, the consultative body that will hold new unique sessions of debate between the professional and university worlds, seeking evidence that can boost the employability of sport and young talent.
The first meeting of this second edition of RED was held this Wednesday at the Villaviciosa campus of Universidad Europea, with the participation of the main agents involved in the sports sector. Among them institutions and organisations, both public and private, represented by the top management of each one of them. For all of them, the aim is to achieve maximum relevance, capacity for analysis and anticipation of the determining aspects of the sports ecosystem and to make these meetings a cradle of great projects.
For the Vice Rector for Students & University Life of Universidad Europea, Elia Cambón, these conferences serve so that "professionals from the sector can share their points of view and experiences and, in this way, draw interesting conclusions about the different topics covered by RED".
The dean Simone Sato stressed the importance of extending RED to the field of health: "We must support research in the health system, a subject that we have to talk about with great transparency and strength and go beyond, that is, to ensure that what is dealt with in these sessions transcends to society".
In the first session, the attendees were also able to learn about the evolution and progress of the network, as well as to attend the signing of the agreement that has enabled a study on sports employability to begin, and with the proposal to present good practices at the University Employment Observatories conference, organised by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities on 13, 14 and 15 March in Cordoba.
After this kick-off, the sessions will be held on a monthly basis until June and will have a different moderator for each one of them. In addition, there will be special guests, such as the manager of the consultancy Valgo, Manel Valcarce, who attended the first meeting in which sponsorship and sports marketing were discussed.
The themes of the next meetings will be: integral health (20 March), active tourism, leisure and recreation (24 April) and corporate wellbeing as an engine for the pursuit of happiness, health, performance and professional identification (22 May). It is also intended to hold a closing session on sport non-governmental organisations and to host a number of other events.
THE GREAT FAMILY OF RED
In this second edition, the Association of Sports and Recreational Clubs and Entities has also joined what is already the great RED family, made up of the European University, the Higher Council of Sports, the Federation of Sports Management Associations of Spain, the General Council of Physical and Sports Education, the corporation that represents all the COLEF/COPLEF in Spain, the Circle of Sports Managers of Madrid, the Spanish Sports Association, the National Federation of Sports Facilities Businessmen (FNEID), the Spain Moves Institute, the Spanish Association of Businessmen of Sports Services to Public Administrations, the World Football Summit, the Official College of Physical Education and Physical Activity and Sports Sciences of the Community of Madrid, the Union of Sports Federations of Madrid, the Sports Arbitration Court, the Real Madrid University School and heads of sports of city councils such as Móstoles, Alcobendas and Leganés.