YouRef

The challenge

Understanding why young people start and stop, and building a training pathway that universities and local organisations can run together.

Role of Universitas

Universitas participates as a consortium partner, alongside Sport Innovation Hub. The coordinator is Associação de Futebol de Braga.

An Erasmus+ sport project on recruiting, training and retaining young officials, connecting schools, universities and sport organisations. Its published output is a digital course for university sport directors and refereeing committees. The other project objectives are not evidenced by these sources.

Public output

A published digital course for university sport directors and refereeing committees, available online.

Why it is relevant

A digital course produced with a consortium and published for a defined professional audience.

Digital component and deliverables

• Published digital course on recruitment, retention and refereeing culture
• Research and surveys on student involvement and motivation
• Design of a training and collaboration framework

How this applies to your institution

A reference for designing training pathways shared by universities and external organisations.

Technical approach

• Research and training design within the consortium. No automated mentoring platform is claimed.

Illustration of the workflow. It is not a screenshot of the tool.