ESVOL Academy

It has been established with the aim of promoting social leadership and social innovation education for sports volunteers that will lead to the creation of new business and ideas in the social field related to sports.

You can take an online course via our MOOC, or you can improve your voluntary-based social leadership and social innovation skills by completing interaktive tasks with a gamification-based learning platform.

Personal Goals

You will be able to understand the impact of sport on solving social challenges

You will be able to lead the creation of new ideas / projects in social fields related to sports.

You will be able to produce innovative solutions, by using sports as a tool, to solve the wicked problems in society.

ESVOL Academy

Collaborative partnership project funded by the European Commission that aims to enable sports volunteers to become successful social leaders and social innovators.

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ESVOL APPs

Project Story

The overall objective of the ESVOL project is to develop ‘Voluntary-Based Social Leadership and Social Innovation Program in Sport’ and to implement and disseminate in partner countries and Europe.

The special aims of ESVOL project are to:

To promote social leadership and social innovation education for sport volunteers which will lead to new business/idea creation in the sport related social field,
To facilitate innovative learning practices in social leadership and social innovation in sport by developing gamified platform and open online course (MOOC) and implementing trainings for sport volunteers.

The target group of the project is sport volunteers especially women, young people and talented athletes in participant countries. The final beneficiaries of the project are sport organizations especially voluntary-based organizations in Europe, sport education institutions, people who want to become sport leader and/or social innovator in sport and social stakeholders in Europe.

A skills-based study will be carry out to determine the profile required for the new model of sport volunteer as a social leader and social innovator. In addition, an open online course (MOOC) and gamified platform will be developed that will provide the skills necessary for sport volunteers to become social leaders and/or social innovators.