The European Academy for Sports Leaders

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The European Academy for Sports Leaders

• Professor Grant Jarvie
• Mogens Kirkiby
• Millar Stoddart
• 28th Scottish Association of Local Sports
  Councils National Seminar
• 4-6th February 2005

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The Context

• 2004 European Year of Education through Sport
• European Academy for Sports Leaders
• 1 out of only 10 community wide projects
• 8 European partner countries
• Lead body ISCA- Denmark
• SALSC and the University of Stirling- Scotland
• Local responsibility ? Scotland in Europe?

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2004 European Year of Education through Sport

• Increase awareness of the value of sport in the
  broadest educational context
• Formal education settings
• Non-formal education settings
• www.eyes-2004.info

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The Council of the European Union and the
European Parliament decided to establish the
European Year of Education through Sport 2004
(EYES 2004).   Within this framework, the
European Commission DG Education and Culture
selected and co-financed approximately 185
projects at local, regional, national,
transnational or community-wide level.   1 of
10 community wide projects funded  The
main objective of the campaign is to sensitise
the European public to the importance of sport in
an educational context as well as to increase
the significance of physical activities in school
curricula.   
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Most Frequent Leisure Time Activities of European
Citizens
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Benefits for Scotland

• Understanding how different parts of Europe
  support and develop the voluntary sports sector
• Having an improved evidence base by which to
  inform sports policy in Scotland
• Being able to access training and education
  programmes based upon best practice from
  throughout Europe.
• The potential of Non-Governmental Organizations
  contributing to a Pan-European Movement of Sport
  for All

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www.eyes-2004.infoThe European Academy for
Sports Leaders

• What is it for?
• What is it?
• Three phases
• Research
• Curriculum Design Materials
• International Academy for Sport for all
• What will it do ?
• What is in it for you?

• Three types of learning
• On Site
• On Tour
• On Line

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Education through Sport Denmark

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Education through Sport France

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Education through Sport Poland
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Education through Sport Scotland

• Recommendations
• There is need to develop a European/International
  Sports Leader Academy through which Scottish
  sport can access, research, ideas, and good
  practice from Europe.
• Scottish sporting practice can make a
  contribution to a European Academy of Sport
  Leaders but the structures to facilitate Scottish
  attendance at ISCA and other European initiatives
  pertinent to Education and sports leadership in
  Scotland needs to be formalised.
• The national sports agency for Scotland should
  nominate SALSC (Scottish Association of Local
  Sports Councils) as the agency responsible for
  liaising with ISCA. This should be funded to
  allow SALSC to nominate and pay for attendance at
  ISCA events.
• There is a need to further develop the research
  base that informs best practice within a European
  Academy for Sports Leaders and therefore the
  means to continue the work of the research group
  set up under this initiative should be a
  priority.
• The role of sport in reproducing educational.
  cultural and social forms of capital needs to be
  explored further in terms of thinking about how
  and what forms of leadership and networking are
  developed through sport.

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Towards an International Academy of Sport for All

• Education for sport
• Education by sport
• Education through sport
• Non-Formal Education Sector
• Transferring New Trends Knowledge Across
  Borders
• mra_at_isca-web.org

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Concluding Comments

• Make no mistake organisations such as ISCA are
  power players in terms of influencing European
  Sports Policy and other than in association with
  research at Stirling University and organisations
  such as SALSC Scotland has very few leavers of
  influence
• The current political focus is on making the
  International Academy of Sport for All a success
  and given Scotlands reputation for democratic
  education and education through sport it has a
  lot to offer and it is important to maximise and
  facilitate a Scottish presence
• Local Sport-Everyones Responsibility Also
  means Scotland in Europe and beyond
• 2005 is the United Nations International Year of
  Sport and Physical Education and education is
  the central plank in the development of sport for
  all in Europe and beyond.
• Scotland needs to be at the table.

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Thank You

• University of Stirling
• Department of Sports Studies
• Please work with us
• Please come and visit us at the University of
  Stirling
• Please feel free to contact us at
• grant.jarvie_at_stir.ac.uk
• www.sports_at_stir.ac.uk