The President of the University of Navarra, Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero, has received in the Hall of Degrees the students who participate in the Sports Talent Program. The initiative, whose goal is to offer a comprehensivefinancial aid to students who combine the degree program university with the internship sports performance, has in this second edition with a total of 60 participants.

The President addressed them indicating that this program is a step forward to make sport and study compatible. "Talento Deportivo is a plan of training in which values such as knowing how to win, tenacity and constancy are learned," he indicated.

partnershipAlso during the event, three agreements were signed with the Miguel Induráin Foundation, committee Spanish Olympic Foundation and Everis Foundation for the development of Sports Talent. The event was attended by Miguel Induráin, Ricardo Leiva (director general COE) and Pruden Induráin (director general of the Navarre Institute of Sport and Youth). In addition to Germán Cutillas, director of Everis North Zone, and Luis Gil, director of Everis. 

The event was also attended by the special councilor for Youth and Sports of the Pamplona City Council, Paz Prieto; the vice-president of the Spanish Olympic committee , Carmelo Paniagua; and the University's Alumni Vice President , Tomás Gómez-Acebo.

Miguel Induráin expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to participate with the University of Navarra in a project of training like this program. Likewise, the director of Everis in the Northern Zone emphasized: "When people leave the University, they must have values such as those provided by this sports program". For his part, Carmelo Paniagua said he hoped that many Olympians would come out of these 60 students.

financial aid academic and sports counseling

Talento Deportivo is a program that aims to make a university Education compatible with competitive sport; to respond to the training and professional needs of student-athletes; and to support and give personalizedattendance to these students in order to reduce the difficulties that development of a university degree program entails.

In exchange for joining the Program, participants are provided with a reinforcement of tutorial; the possibility of obtaining up to 2 credits ECTS credit per course; the entrance in the Nutrition and Sports Nutrition Program; a special physical maintenance plan; a continuous special medical follow-up; a tutor sports-staff that guides them through the University; and a specific training plan through the programs of study Olympic Center.