Innovation
Implement innovative solutions
Why? Because Sport organisations face increasingly competitive environments as they try to attract resources and growth.
The online course is available in 7 languages
Danish 🇩🇰 • Estonian 🇪🇪 • Italian 🇮🇹 • Latvian 🇱🇻 • Lithuanian 🇱🇹 • Portuguese 🇵🇹
About CHAMP project
The online course is the final outcome of the Erasmus+ funded CHAMP project. Nine project partners from eight European countries have contributed to the development of this innovative tool. The course will support representatives from sports clubs and sports organisations across Europe to initiate new, innovative solutions to manage the modern sport organization.
9
partners
125
sport clubs from Europe
3
years of research
The main aim of the CHAMP project is to give the sports movement innovative tools and education for modernisation. The findings are distributed through an online course that offers fresh insights as well as current trends and solutions for physical activity promotion.
The course has 5 modules. Each module covers a specific theme
Module 1 – Introduction: Innovation strategy
Organisations face increasingly competitive environments as they try to attract resources and growth. Sports clubs face the challenge of competing with sports offerings from other sectors, which have grown over the past decade.
In response to this, sports clubs need to adapt and change in order to differentiate themselves from competitors and other distractions.
Module 2 – Management, economy and funding
The successful planning and implementation of innovative actions requires support for volunteers in their mission to implement new activities or improve existing ones. In the following chapters we will present tools to improve the management processes in your club.
Education plays a really big part in a club’s success rate when it comes to management. Both clubs and federations are looking for new ways of making education more accessible to volunteers, mostly by different types of online education.
Module 3 – Volunteers
The volunteers are the heart of sports clubs. Clubs are often dependent on volunteers to manage the club and its activities; therefore, it is crucial to have a strategy on how to involve them, keep them engaged and perhaps more importantly, make them happy to be involved.
Module 4 – Offers, activities, facilities and availability
Organisations face increasingly competitive environments as they try to attract new members. Sports clubs are no exception and they must adapt and implement new services, activities and offers.
Module 5 – External and internal communication
Successful communication is crucial for all organisations. Being able to reach and engage all stakeholders is necessary. This module will support you in your work with a communications strategy. The strategy is not supposed to be a heavy document collecting dust on someone’s desk. A communication strategy can be simple but yet very effective!
The online course has 5 modules. By completing all five modules, you will gain knowledge on how to modernise your sports club, gain new members, improve the economy and financial aspects, communicate, work with volunteers, and more. The course also includes interviews with various European sport clubs.
Start with module 1: innovation strategy.
By completing all five modules of the champ online course, you will learn about:
Publications
Intellectual Output No 1: Definitions and Background Research
How can knowledge and understanding about modernisation and innovative practices within and outside of the traditional sports movement attract Europeans to become more physically active? These questions will be raised through ENGSO’s new Erasmus+ financed project, CHAMP (Clubs for Health-enhancement, Activation, Modernisation and Participation).
Intellectual Output No 2: Innovative offers in sport
The data has been collected by the project partners which all are representatives of the national sport movement in the following countries: Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy and Portugal. A questionnaire with 22 questions concerning the challenges of sport clubs as well as the possible solutions for these challenges was distributed in the seven countries throughout the period: November 2019 to January 2020.
Intellectual Output No 3: Innovative offers outside the field of traditional sport
The third intellectual output of this project has the target to “collect innovative good practices in the fields outside of sport”. In order to establish this collection, relevant academic and non-academic case studies on innovative practices to gain customer loyalty outside the sport sector were consulted and performed.
The project team
This online course is a result of a collaborative partnership between nine European organisations.
Modern sport club
How can knowledge and understanding about modernisation and innovative practices within and outside of the traditional sports movement attract Europeans to become more physically active? How can knowledge and understanding about modernisation and innovative practices within and outside of the traditional sports movement attract Europeans to become more physically active?
Find it out by doing the online course!