The UVic-UCC signs a cooperation agreement with Club Joventut Badalona

The University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) and Club Joventut Badalona S.A.D. today signed a cooperation agreement to jointly carry out initiatives in the field of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and dissemination, and above all, in R+D+I projects. This agreement was signed by the rector of the UVic-UCC, Josep-Eladi Baños, and Juan Antonio Morales, president of Club Joventut Badalona S.A.D., at the Physical Activity and Sports Studies Centre (CEEAF).

With this agreement, the two institutions undertake to engage in academic, scientific and professional relationships, and to exchange resources to promote research and educational activities of mutual interest. Accordingly, the UVic-UCC and Club Joventut Badalona S.A.D. will work on joint projects that benefit both institutions, and will provide spaces that the other party may need to carry out training or awareness-raising activities.

The rector of the UVic-UCC said that the agreement came "at a time of change in the concept of physical activity" and that it will "improve the life of elite athletes who pay the price of excessive training" and for "incorporate sport as a key health factor in society, with well-founded bases of knowledge and research." At the same time, according to Baños, the students' contact with real situations, in this case at a sports club, allows them "to learn to put theory into practice," so that the result of the collaboration is a "symbiotic relationship." The president of Club Joventut Badalona described his organisation as "a benchmark in the training of people and sportsmen" and declared his conviction that "knowledge applied to the technique of sport can only bring better performance and benefits for players." According to Morales, "this must be the first step in a long-term collaboration to improve knowledge in sport and our activities."

The first project that the two institutions are already carrying out, which is part of this agreement, is the new industrial doctorate signed between the two institutions which is called "Advanced monitoring of basketball training loads for the prevention of sports injuries." This thesis is linked to the doctoral programme in Comprehensive Care and Health Services at the UVic-UCC, and is directed by Javier Peña, CEEAF director and supervised and co-directed by Daniel Moreno, the head of the Training and Sports Sciences Area at Club Joventut Badalona.