Nordic-Baltic Up-dated Coaching Experience

  • Ābele, Agita (Expert)
  • Solovjova, Elena (Partner's coordinator)
  • Reklaitiene, Diana (Project leader)

Project Details

Description

Nowadays a coach is a central figure in taking care of and in the development of the young generation dealing with sport. Children are communicating and socializing in different ways at present. They are addicted by information technologies and receives information quickly without putting a lot of effort in
this. A coach should be a person being able to motivate kids’ engagement in sport activities helping people to be active during the life span. In this way a coach should be innovative, creative, and able to understand the young generation and their perspectives. The world changes rapidly, so a coach should
develop social, psychological, pedagogical competences as well as be acquainted with new knowledge in sports technology. Developing competences of coaches is a life-long process, which includes formal and informal education. Until now the Nordic-Baltic Coaching network partners has been involved in the
development of future coaches’ skills, by creating study modules as well as organizing practical courses, but an experienced coach must still be innovative, and he/she has to catch up with latest research achievements, to be familiar with children’s psychological, social and pedagogical development and based on that be able to train kids in the very best way. Nordic-Baltic countries are having different schools for developing coaches. Different qualifications are set up for coaches in Baltic States compared to the Nordic countries, where they don’t need higher education to be a coach. In the Baltic States it is compulsory to have passed a Bachelor educational program. The goal of this project is therefore to analyze the needs of experienced coaches during close discussion with them and define the competences needed in daily life as a coach including the newest updates in the before mentioned areas and not at least in technologies. The requirements of the educational level of coaches in the Nordic-Baltic countries are different and our aim is to develop a common e-learning stud module/course and a coaching network including experienced coaches to fill in this gap. Through this it will be possible also to help future coaches to understand the need not only of professional competences and not at least the need being innovative and updated.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/09/1931/07/22

Collaborative partners

  • Rīga Stradiņš University
  • Latvian University Sports Federation
  • Lithuanian Sports University (lead)
  • University of Southern Denmark
  • Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
  • Kaunas Sports School Startas
  • Lithuanian Aerobic federation
  • Lithuanian Sports Federations Union
  • National Association of Conditioning Training
  • Sport Institute of Finland
  • University of Tartu

Keywords

  • e-learning study, Coaching

Field of Science

  • 5.3 Educational sciences

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