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Graduates launch sports app
Budding athletes are set to benefit from a new sport and exercise app designed by two University of Wolverhampton graduates. The unique web tool, ithinksport,
provides sports psychology education to amateur athletes and sports lovers and has recently gone live. Ithinksport is designed to help
people who are keen to learn about the psychological issues in sports that can affect game performance. It provides a network where users can share useful strategies and programmes to help others improve their performances. Ali Mahoney and Nico Kolokythas,
graduates of the MSc Applied Sport & Exercise Science programme at the University from 2005 and 2013, have planned and developed the new app and website since graduating. Motivation for developing the site
came to the pair through the idea of providing a unique and interactive approach to sport psychology and education for sports lovers. Ithinksport allows users to post
‘nudges’ which are posts providing technique ideas. Other users then try out the nudges and rate them according to helpfulness. The site aims to form a community
network through online formats so that sports enthusiasts can help one another improve their game and performance.
University app tackles youth unemployment
A
new training app is being developed by University of Wolverhampton academics to tackle unemployment among
young people. App.t will contain interactive training
content which focuses on developing business start-up skills. The project is a consortium of five
European partners, led by the University of Wolverhampton, and is based on the principles of social enterprise. In addition, the University is working on
VET4Start-Up, aiming to create training materials, including a free Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), for people who are interested in starting up their own business. Both projects focus on technology as an
innovative way to engage with young people and entrepreneurs. Participants are currently identifying existing practice in the partner countries, including examples which have successfully helped people to start-up a business. This information will be used to develop the training resources.
Sam Hope, Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts,
said: “Research shows there are still a large number of young people in Europe who leave education and training without holding any labour market-related qualifications. “People who are struggling to find
employment may be interested in starting up their own business. However, start-up activity is difficult, there is high risk and more than 50% of new businesses fail within the first five years. “Strong and well-performing
Vocational and Educational Training (VET) can help deal with the challenge facing start- ups in a competitive economy coming out of the global recession. The University of Wolverhampton is now working with partners to target this issue.” The projects will be running events where
interested members of the public can come along to find out more and get involved with testing the products. Both projects are funded under the
Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Strategic Partnership programme for Vocational Education and Training.
“There are still a large number of young people in Europe who leave education and training without holding any labour market-related qualifications"
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