Cloud-based education for creative sport talents – TALENT
Support, selection and properly directing children to the appropriate sport is one of the most important and certainly most challenging questions posed to professionals. Proper guidance enhances the efficiency of athletes who can thus utilize their potential purposefully in kinesiological activities that are compatible with their anthropological specificities.
TALENT Project focuses on standards for recognition and awareness increase about sporting talent and the spread of the dual-career concept from the first grades of school talented sport youths aged from 12-16.
The main aim of TALENT Project is to propose a methodology, develop standards for detection of anthropometric and motor potential of gifted young athletes for success in specific sports and increase the awareness of the special needs of youth students among teacher, trainers and parents and support athletes’ dual careers to keep talented young people in sports and educational systems and make them aware of the benefits of a dual career.
This aim will be pursued through following actions:
- By providing the online tools for recognition of talented children
- By providing training for skills that allow coaches, teachers and parents to recognize children’s talent;
- By promoting different possible solutions for educating talents in sports, providing a tool for the recognition of the skills involved;
- By preventing youth drop-out from school or sports through the support of student-athletes in maintaining their status;
- By strengthening the potential for the development of sports talent by connecting scientific, educational and sports organizations, and also teachers, coaches, parents and potentially gifted children;
- By increasing awareness of the importance of education for the gifted children as precondition for dual-careers.
The consortium consists of seven partner institutions:
Higher Education Institutions (University of Palermo and University of Nis); Research center (Center for Social Innovation); Education institution Centar izvrsnosti Splitsko-dalmatinske županije (CI SDZ), and NGOs Kentro Mermnas Oikogeneias Kai Paidiou (KMOP) and Sarajevo Meeting of Culture (SMOC) as well as The European Athlete as Student (EAS) network established with main aim to to support European athletes in combining high performance sport and education.
