BP4 – INNOdxt – Sport and culture management association, A Coruna, Spain

1. Who are we, in what environment are we  functioning, what sport facilities do we have ?

We are a sports and cultural association formed mainly by teachers of Physical Education and coaches of different disciplines.
Our Association emerged from the idea of physical education material, started working on research projects and currently advise in training matters to all types of clubs, from football, f, athletics and other sports with which they collaborate with the City Council of Coruña, with which we have a good relationship of collaboration.
We collaborate in the creation of materials, information for web pages and search of all kinds of innovative material in physical education and sport.
We have all kinds of facilities, football fields, pavilions to perform track sports, athletics tracks and as much as possible have facilities for practicing water sports, as with the clubs that collaborate have an agreement with the city council.

2. What do we do?

Right now we are collaborating with three teams, one of soccer, one of futsal and another one of athletics, in addition to continue elaborating materials for the elaboration of books and web pages, besides being giving documentation through webwinar and to participate in sports School students.

We have just finished a course of a football club “Bergantiños” in his speech in a European project of Erasmus Plus “Form”.

3. Why do we do it, what are our target groups and what goals do we set?

Our target group are athletes, physical education teachers, sports coaches in training and students and young people in sports practice.

4. What are our Best Practices?

• We always try to make an analysis of the sport context
  We study the bad habits and negative behaviors of sports practice in different sports and from four sections that can be studied:
  A-A technical-tactical training level for athletes and trainers
  B-A Physical level, sports-based education, school, injury prevention, health education, etc …
  C-At social-emotional level (relationship with friends, tolerance, teamwork, self-improvement)
  D-Transfer to the field of education and personal life, how it influences sports practice in studies and personal life habits.
  We start from what can be done wrong and how we think we can solve it by generating good sports behaviors in these sectors.
• Diagnostic treatments of the needs of students and athletes in practice and of teachers and trainers as trainers, we establish a plan of advice for the improvement of the conditions of the sport practice and a plan of action.
  The needs of our student athletes on the basis of the four paragraphs we have discussed above, we do not look at sports coaches, but we focus on transferring a personal life, sport as a means to be a better person. A child can be very good at practicing sport, but the best has relationship problems, influential negatively in studies, do not take care of the physical point and do not move him to good habits in his personal life. In other words, it can detect needs in one sector and another sector does not have them.

• We try to encourage sports and physical activity in two areas: play and teaching We want to learn and enjoy themselves, that they learned to compete and that they learned that in addition to competition, there are other values that are equally important And the treatments focus on them through sport. We believe that it is a child is well trained, will improve, according to his qualities and the more he dominates the sport, rather than to enjoy with him, making that part of his personal life habits. At the same time there is one that is already related to one’s own sporting practice and others that they try to inculcate for that associates. For our association, a way to stimulate the athletes, is to make them feel safe in the sport they practice, for the training they receive is fundamental and the quality of training as well, that is why we propose to improve in the training of coaches Y Teachers to improve the quality of training of our athletes and students.
• We have a very good relationship with our city council, who collaborates with us in this idea, supporting with the transfer of an installation and appreciating the fact of being able to collaborate with other countries in the improvement of the youth sport. On the part of our local government, since they value that the Coruña, through our Association, we are working with other countries in the improvement of the sport practice of the young people.
• We have a direct relationship with famous sportsmen, who work in clubs with which we collaborate, some Olympic and others that do not work directly, but who could tell us about their experience and give some master class about their discipline.
• We have a website where we try to show part of our work, we have collaborated in an earlier project with a football club “Bergantiños” which we advise and with which we participate in an Erasmus Plus project, its name is “Shape” . We work through social networks with pages attached to the collaborating clubs in order to spread our work.