This presentation outlines an evolution of the European dual career (DC) discourse emphasizing roles of FEPSAC and the European Commission (EC). Such evolution might conventionally be divided into three stages. The first latent stage lasted since FEPSAC was created (1969) and up to mid of the 1990s. Pioneer studies revealed that having sport combined with education and/or vocational experience (i.e., DC) facilitate athletes’ post-sport adaptation. The second – awareness stage lasted between the 9th FEPSAC Congress (1995) when the CT-SIG was formed, and “White Paper on Sport” issued by the EC (2007) with the term “DC” introduced. The CT-SIG cooperated with the FEPSAC on two Position Statements and one monograph on career topics followed by Psychology of Sport and Exercise Special Issue (SI) on career transitions. These publications promoted the holistic view of athletes’ development and paved the way for DC research and practice. The EC promoted 2004 as a Year of Sport and Education in Europe, supported the European Athlete as Student network and pilot DC projects. The third – development stage (2007-today) is characterized by development of the European DC discourse as “a historically constructed and shared body of DC knowledge…providing DC stakeholders in Europe with common grounds to understand each other, communicate, and cooperate on different levels” (Stambulova & Wylleman, 2019, p. 74). The EC delivered the European Guidelines on DCs of Athletes (2012) followed by a decade of funding DC projects within Erasmus +Sport program (e.g., Gold in Education and Elite Sport). FEPSAC supported the Psychology of Sport and Exercise SI “DC Development and Transitions” (Stambulova & Wylleman, 2015) and an invited review of the European DC research (Stambulova & Wylleman, 2019) published on the 50th anniversary of FEPSAC – all followed by the recent Position Statement on athletes’ DCs in the European context (Stambulova et al., 2024).