Grounded in the Scandinavian context and by sharing research findings, good practice examples and recommendations for support, this symposium aims to facilitate understanding of athletes’ dual career (DC) experiences in the process of maintaining balance in the face of challenge, or even global crises. The need to safeguard athletes’ development by facilitating the balance between sport and education has been highlighted by the European Union guidelines on DCs of athletes (2012), and research has since developed and flourished (Stambulova & Wylleman, 2019). After a brief introduction by the organizer the symposium is structured keeping in mind a developmental perspective and moving from research to practice. Researchers and practitioners across three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) will collectively share knowledge throughout athletes’ DCs in relation to childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and from primary to secondary/high school and university level.