SENTA 4+

Course for athletes to learn how to become a social entrepreneur

This is a Gamification-Based Course on Social Entrepreneurship through/in Sport which directed mainly to athletes and others working in sport sector however everyone interested in the social entrepreneurship can participate.

The SENTA course focuses on the starting new initiatives to social issues in society through/in sport. It will help improve the social entrepreneurship skills and competencies of athletes and will contribute to the development of innovative products, services, businesses and processes for the solution of social issues.

The learning content is specifically tailored to the needs of elite athletes. The SENTA training course was developed based on findings from literature reviews in partner countries, surveys with elite athletes, interviews and focus group meetings with people responsible for curriculum developers, career consultants and experts.

The transnational project consortium consists of prestigious organizations from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Norway, Romania and Spain and addresses the challenges in starting an initiative needed for the implementation of the training course across Europe and for the solution of the social issues of elite athletes.

The course is divided into seven modules. Within each module there are several parts. Participants get points for each part. Each part ends with a small quiz participant have to answer. The course applies the most preferred training methods of elite athletes such as e-learning and gamified exercises.