Erasmus+ Sport Cooperation Partnership · 2025 to 2027
Career pathways
for women athletes
into sports tech.
A 24-month European partnership equipping 100 women athletes with the training, mentoring and network to build their next career in the sports tech industry.
The challenge
Women hold a fraction of the leadership in European sport and in sports technology. The pipeline is the gap.
0%
European sport federation decision-making roles held by women
Source · EIGE
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Sport federation presidencies held by women
Source · EU Commission
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Women and people of colour in the sports tech workforce
Source · Deloitte
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Reasons we are willing to accept that
Springboard 2 responds with a 24-month Erasmus+ Sport Cooperation Partnership. Five organisations across six countries deliver the training curriculum, mentor matching, research outputs and public toolkit needed to move women athletes into sports tech roles.
What we are building
Three project pillars, integrated across the work plan.
How the project runs
Twenty-four months. Five work packages. Ten milestones.
Scroll on. Each marker is a deliverable from the work plan, snapping into focus as the months pass.
Resources · skills mapping
Athletic skills, mapped to sports tech roles.
An open project resource. Each card pairs a skill that elite athletes train for years with the sports tech function it underwrites. Filter by archetype, expand for context. Compiled from WP2 research interviews.
Project KPIs
Targets, tracked publicly.
Springboard 2 is co-funded by the European Union. The targets agreed in the project proposal are tracked here, updated weekly from the consortium reporting system.
Programme progress
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towards 24-month targets
participants
Women athletes engaged
mentoring
Mentors recruited
mentoring
Mentor-mentee pairs active
training
Workshops delivered
training
Training modules released
outreach
Event attendees reached
participants
Countries represented
research
Research outputs published
Figures self-reported by the consortium and audited annually by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Underlying data available on request.
Voices
From the cohort.
Programme participants and mentors on the work, in their own words. Short documentaries published as the cohort progresses, alongside written case studies in the project research outputs.
The mentor I was matched with had walked the exact path I was about to start. By month four I had a co-founder, a pre-seed cheque and a working prototype.
Rasha A.
Marathon, retired 2024
Founder, Track Vital
I joined as a curious athlete. Six months later I was running user research at a Series A startup, full-time, with full institutional backing.
Eline V.
Field hockey, active
Product, Wearable AI
Springboard gave me the language for what I had been doing all along. I now write cheques to women like the one I used to be.
Defne K.
Tennis, retired 2022
Investor, Eurosport Ventures
The consortium
Six partner organisations across five countries.
Coordinated by Igloo Innovation in Oslo, with delivery partners in sport innovation, mentorship, research and dissemination.
- Oslo, NO
Igloo Innovation
Coordinator
Innovation and tech incubation
- Madrid, ES
The Global Sports Innovation Center
Dissemination lead
European sports innovation network
- Amsterdam, NL
The Orange Sports Forum
Workshop lead
International sports business development
- Istanbul, TR
Guler Legacy
Role model engagement
Sports startup acceleration
- Stockholm, SE
Johnsen Skillz (SheSkillz)
Mentorship platform
Women's skill development and mentoring
- Bergen, NO
Collective Innovation
Research lead
Sports tech research and dual-career studies
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