Basketball Volunteer Academy: Team Behind the Team Team Behind the Team

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The Basketball Volunteer Academy (BVA) is a 36-month Erasmus+ Sport project designed to establish a structured and scalable volunteer system for basketball. It addresses the lack of a standardized framework, ensuring that federations can recruit, train, and manage volunteers efficiently, leading to improved event organization, increased volunteer retention, and greater inclusivity in basketball. The project brings together basketball federations from Romania, Belgium, Lithuania, Greece, and Cyprus, alongside experts in sustainability and digital learning. The system will be tested and validated at three major basketball events: • Youth EuroBasket U18 (2026, Romania) • EuroBasket Women (2027, Lithuania) • EuroBasket U20 (2028, Greece) BVA is structured into five interconnected work packages to ensure the development, implementation, and sustainability of a structured volunteer system for basketball. The project begins with Project Implementation, ensuring smooth coordination, financial management, and quality control. The Volunteering in Basketball Mechanism develops a structured volunteer framework and digital platform, integrating digitalization in sports to streamline volunteer recruitment and management. The Volunteer Training & Capacity Building work package creates a comprehensive training program for at least 150 volunteers, with a focus on inclusivity, digital learning, and skill development. The Implementation & Validation phase tests and refines the volunteer system at three major basketball events, ensuring its effectiveness and scalability. Finally, Impact & Dissemination promotes the project’s outcomes, ensuring long-term sustainability and widespread adoption across European basketball federations, reinforcing the digital transformation of volunteer management. The BVA project will transform basketball volunteering, making it more inclusive, well-organized, and technologically advanced.