As the sports sector has commercialised, sporting activities have become increasingly affected by the activities, policies and legislation of the EU. For example, since the judgment of the European Court in Walrave (1974), the economic, and consequently organisational, aspects of sport have been subject to European law, particularly the Treaty provisions regulating freedom of movement and competition law. The adoption of Article 165 of the TFEU has resulted in the social aspects of sport also becoming a matter of EU concern. In recent years, the sports sector has experienced commercialisation, litigation and sporting scandals and these have revealed the need for improvements in sports governance. There is a need for those employed, or seeking employment, in the European sports sector to have detailed knowledge and understanding of EU affairs and its implications for their professional practice. In response to this agenda, the applicant, Professor Richard Parrish, will embark on a three year programme of teaching, research and outreach activities. These activities are designed to (1) enhance the employment opportunities of students seeking employment in the European sports sector and to professionalise the sports sector and improve the governance of sport through the provision of high level education and training services for existing and future sports administrators and lawyers and (2) provide academic leadership in the discipline of EU sports law and policy and generate new knowledge through the delivery of a programme of research which responds to the need to adopt evidence-based policy making in the sports sector and to underpin the discipline with high quality literature. Edge Hill has taken a lead in promoting the teaching and research of EU sports law and policy. This application is part of a longer term strategy to secure the status of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for our wider departmental contribution to the promotion of EU studies.

Edge Hill University has been participating in ERASMUS and ERASMUS+ programmes since 2010 and that participation has become integral to the university's international strategy, supporting the commitment to increased levels of student and staff mobility, both incoming and outgoing, and to the development of sustainable, successful, high quality partnerships with higher education providers and other organisations. Our aim is to broaden mutual understanding providing students with a high quality learning experience whilst enhancing employability. A significant constituent of our student body are those from a widening participation (disadvantaged) background and encouraging those students to take part in ERASMUS+ is a key imperative for the university.Recognising that participation in outward mobility is not always possible an important aim is to benefit our whole student body by the presence of overseas students and staff in the classroom and throughout the campus, bringing different perspectives and experience into both the learning process and to the wider student experience.The University has a particular expertise and interest in the public sector, which it wishes to understand in a pan-European context and has also heavily invested in the creative arts, both of these areas have been a focus during this project.The number of outgoing student mobilities has increased from 3 in 2011/12 to 23 during 2015/16 with a gender split of 13 female and 9 male participants. Mobilities covered a wide range of subject areas, English, History, Film and TV, Design for Performance, Business, Nursing, Paramedic Practice and Social Work. Of the 23 students. 13 were from a disadvantaged background evidencing the University's commitment to widening participation.We have welcomed 43 students to the university during 2015/16 representing a 45% increase from the number hosted in 2014/15, these students studied a range of subject areas including Business, English, Paramedic Science, Nursing and Social Work.The number of outgoing staff mobilities during the project was 24 (5 in 2011112) and we welcomed an increased number of teaching staff from across our partners who contributed to delivery and learning across a range of subject areas. Staff teaching mobility has proven a valuable and enriching factor for the student experience across the university.The range and depth of activity during the project across both staff and student participation has resulted in some clearly evidenced and significant impacts to both individuals and organisations including:• Show case events at the Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays and The Everyman, Liverpool of student work produced during mobility • A second annual International Paramedic Conference, now established as an annual collaborative event•Further strengthening of the partnership between Edge Hill University, University of Saimaa, Finland and the North West Ambulance Service resulting in research projects and professional development activity and direct recruitment of paramedic staff• Formation of a community and international activity cycling group• Student dissertation and research project on 'Spider Assemblage' to be published as a direct result of the mobilityAll of these impacts have longer term benefits to curriculum development , research and knowledge transfer and application to practice whilst benefitting the student experience and enhancing employability.

Edge Hill University has been participating in ERASMUS and ERASMUS+ programmes since 2010 and that participation has become integral to the university’s internationalisation strategy and international activity, supporting the commitment to increased levels of student and staff mobility, both incoming and outgoing, and to the development of sustainable, successful, high quality partnerships with higher education providers and other organisations. Our aim is to provide students with a high quality learning and life experience that they can utilise throughout their degree and afterwards, therefore enhancing employability. A significant constituent of our student body are those from a widening participation (disadvantaged) background and encouraging those students to take part in ERASMUS+ is a key target for the university. Recognising that participation in outward mobility is not always possible an important aim is to benefit our whole student body by the presence of overseas students and staff in the classroom and throughout the campus, bringing different perspectives and experience into both the learning process and to the wider student experience. This was our largest intake of ERASMUS+ students to date. The University has a particular expertise and interest in the public sector, which it wishes to continue understand in a pan-European context and has also heavily invested in the creative arts, both of these areas have been a focus during this project. The number of outgoing student mobilities has increased from 3 in 2011/12 to 22 during 2018/19 with a gender split of 10 female and 12 male participants. Mobilities covered a wide range of subject areas, English, History, Film and TV, Performing Arts, Business, Biology Psychology and Social Sciences. We have welcomed 84 students to the university during 2018/19 representing a substantial increase from the number hosted in 2011/12, these students studied a range of subject areas across the Faculty of Arts and Science and Health. The number of outgoing staff mobilities during the project was 13 (5 in 2011/12) and we welcomed 11 teaching staff from across our partners who contributed to delivery and learning across a range of subject areas. Staff teaching mobility has proven a valuable and enriching factor for the student experience across the university, it has also helped to generate interest in Studying Abroad through expert knowledge of partners. The range and depth of activity during the project across both staff and student mobility has resulted in some clearly evidenced and significant impacts to both individuals and organisations including:As a result of their ERASMUS Staff opportunity a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education has reported theses benefits:•Established a network of academics including colleagues from Universities of Valencia, Barcelona, Almeria, Granada and Huelva. Here, the focus is mainly sharing best practice in research and teaching.•Specifically, staff from Spain were actively involved in the enhancement and development of a level 6 Special Educational Needs and Disabilities module because they offer a similar module. •A colleague from EHU has since been invited to University of Almeria for her first PhD examination. I, too, have visited Almeria and Valencia to examine PhD students.•EHU has hosted two Spanish PhD candidatesA senior Lecturer in Business Management and Finance reported these benefits:• A colleague is going out to Hanze University to participate in their International Week (18-21 November 2019). • Staff at Hanze are in the process of planning a visit of their staff and students to participate in a cultural and marketing exchange.Staff also reported that their mobilities had resulted in:• The signing of a bi-lateral agreement and the setting up of Operating Department Practice student mobilities with Saimaa University in Finland.• Discussions around opportunities for student mobility led to three EHU Nutrition and Health students going out to Han University to take part in their Nutrition Summer School in June 2019ERASMUS students reported back:• While at FAMO one of our students had the opportunity to stay an extra month to work with American students on a summer course remaking a scene from a Czech film on top of the two films he made on the course itself. On the back of this experience he will be returning to FAMO this academic year as an ERASMUS trainee to assist FAMO with the running of the summer school itself. This student is now a key advocate for FAMO on the campus, encouraging and advising EHU students who may want to spend their ERAMSUS year at FAMO. He is also i the process of working with the department to create a joint Film Festival between FAMO and EHU. • As part of their mobility 2 Dance students at our partner university in Lithuania were part of a national broadcast performance piece.

Edge Hill University has been participating in ERASMUS and ERASMUS+ programmes since 2010 and that participation has become integral to the university’s internationalisation strategy and international activity, supporting the commitment to increased levels of student and staff mobility, both incoming and outgoing, and to the development of sustainable, successful, high quality partnerships with higher education providers and other organisations. Our aim is to provide students with a high quality learning and life experience that they can utilise throughout their degree and afterwards, therefore enhancing employability. A significant constituent of our student body are those from a widening participation (disadvantaged) background and encouraging those students to take part in ERASMUS+ is a key target for the university.Recognising that participation in outward mobility is not always possible an important aim is to benefit our whole student body by the presence of overseas students and staff in the classroom and throughout the campus, bringing different perspectives and experience into both the learning process and to the wider student experience. This was our largest intake of ERASMUS+ students to date. The University has a particular expertise and interest in the public sector, which it wishes to continue understand in a pan-European context and has also heavily invested in the creative arts, both of these areas have been a focus during this project. The number of outgoing student mobilities has increased from 3 in 2011/12 to 21 during 2017/18 with a gender split of 16 female and 5 male participants. Mobilities covered a wide range of subject areas, English, History, Film and TV, Performing Arts, Business, Biology Psychology and Social Sciences. We have welcomed 70 students to the university during 2017/18 representing a substantial increase from the number hosted in 2011/12, these students studied a range of subject areas across the Faculty of Arts and Science and Health. The number of outgoing staff mobilities during the project was 10 (5 in 2011/12) and we welcomed 6 teaching staff from across our partners who contributed to delivery and learning across a range of subject areas. Staff teaching mobility has proven a valuable and enriching factor for the student experience across the university, it has also helped to generate interest in Studying Abroad through expert knowledge of partners. The range and depth of activity during the project across both staff and student mobility has resulted in some clearly evidenced and significant impacts to both individuals and organisations including:• An ERASMUS+ student becoming a Student Ambassador for the Terrance Higgins Trust after his return from mobility in Brussels.• As part of their mobility 2 Dance students at our partner university in Lithuania were part of a national broadcast performance piece. They performed in choreographic pieces that celebrated twenty years of creative activity of Vytis Jankaustkasm, one of the most important Lithuanian choreographers• An active History dept at Edge Hill University saw several local and international exposures - The Erasmus+ Coordinator took part in a House of Commons launch of the book focussing on Islamophobia and Antisemitism. The same professor was interviewed by Colombia’s leading newspaper El Tiempo and the French daily L’Humanité, and did a fact-checking request for the American magazine New Republic. He had also been invited to speak about his current research on the history of free public transport in some French towns, and international debates about it, at a conference at Georgetown University in Washington DC, where he was told that his book Immigrants and Intellectuals: May ’68 and the Rise of AntiRacism In France provokes fierce arguments among students at one of the US’s most elite universities, for whom it is a set text. An abridged version of one of the chapters in it has recently been published in French and Dutch translation by the cutting-edge Belgian magazine Lava. In addition to further 1968 conferences at Nottingham University and Warwick University, he participated via videolink in May 1968: Legacies of Protest in France, a Virtual Round Table debate hosted at the University of Pittsburgh, between four historians in different locations and a live audience, recorded for YouTube. Notable teaching developments within the Hisotry Dept. this year included the launch of the ERASMUS+ co-ordinators new second year module Migration and Mobility in Contemporary European History, also drawing on wider expertise from within the Department, elsewhere in the University and the wider local community - including a talk to students by a Syrian refugee living locally about his experiences of fleeing across Europe. In May 2018 Daniel gave a talk to A Level students at Notre Dame Catholic College in Liverpool on 'Minorities in Russian History'.

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.