The project is set as a number of transnational project meetings (kick-off, methodology planning sessions, networking, expert panel sessions and others). The aims of these meetings are all in line with the overall project strategy and results, namely:
The project proposal aims to create an innovative training module implemented through a series of informational, educational and prevention seminars (through programs). The seminars will target all relevant groups to the problems – athletes, professional players, coaches, athlete support personnel(ASP), facilitators, judges, decision makers, youth organizations, decision-maker, stakeholders and government representatives.
The informational programs will:
- Put focus for the target groups regading the health hazards – causes, risk factors, strategies, tendencies, etc and
- Emphasize on the need for education with focus on skills development based on needs assessment.
The educational programs (through certified professionalists in the respected field) will :
- Focus on improving the skills in each specific field for the stakeholders, including workshops on training quality, management practices, administrative measures, nutritioning basis, juridical aspect of sport and procedures, the health hazards’ basis, good governance, etc.
- Aim at developing the competences of athletes and the other key members of organizations (coaches, experts, managers, etc.) through practical workshops, knowledge and evidence-based research, new methods and tools
The prevention programs will be:
- Value based, directed towards the target groups with a particular focus on young people and recreational sport.
- When the training module is implemented it will address each specific health hazard in a structured approach aimed to improve the understanding of the root basis for the problem and how to improve it. For instance in the case of doping the program and experts will elaborate on the ethical side of doping, the effect on the “fairplay principle”, the socio-psychological aspects of the problem, the potential juridical and health consenquences.