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MAiSI Summer 2020: the online version
MAiSI Summer 2020: the online version
The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) in “Sports Ethics and Integrity” is completing its third year of operation and in July 2020 the courses as well as support for postgraduate dissertations were held online due to the extraordinary circumstances that prevailed because of the coronavirus. Under normal circumstances this educational programme would have been held at the IOA facilities in Ancient Olympia under the relevant memorandum of cooperation.The IOA’s contribution gives a unique character to the Programme’s implementation.The twenty-two students admitted in 2019 attended from 22 June 2020 to 3 July 2020 the course SRE 705: Olympism and the Olympic Movement, with professors Dr Konstantinos Georgiadis (Programme Director for Greek participation and Member of the Board of Directors), Dr Alberto Reinaldo Reppold Filho Reppold, Dr Mike McNamee and Assoc. Prof. Dr Ourania Vrontou. The new entrants, twenty-six students from seventeen different countries, attended from 7 July 2020 to 22 July 2020 the course SRE 704: Research Methods and Skills. The teaching professors of the course were Prof. Dr Antonios Travlos, Assoc. Prof. Dr Joanne Hudson, Assoc. Prof. Dr Athanasios Strigas and Dr Angeliki Bistaraki.The MAiSI is an innovative interdisciplinary programme organised by six European Universities: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, Swansea University in the United Kingdom, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and a catalyst for professional sports administration. MAiSi aims to equip students for high-level careers in sports administration and governance, concentrating on the development of stronger ethical sports cultures, and developing tools for sports integrity.The students are scholarship holders of the European Commission and the IOC Olympic Solidarity and have the opportunity through the cooperation of six Universities to receive education that enables them to identify ethical issues and engage in ethical thinking in order to serve sports integrity on a professional level.
“The MAiSI is an innovative interdisciplinary programme organised by six European Universities.”