Project Education & sport

The combination of sport and education is for NOC*NSF one of the main issues to improve the quality of talent development in the Netherlands. By giving talents the opportunity to develop themselves on both issues, talents are no longer forced to choose between sport and education. Talents get the opportunity to develop their sport career, while going for a school degree.

Sweden is familiar with the combination between sport and education for several years. Sweden has a system of sport gymnasiums. These gymnasiums are on the level of lower and higher profession education. Talents are getting the opportunity to combine sport and education in an efficient way. A professional coach is working on these schools to support the talents at the sport field and with their studies.

In cooperation with NOC*NSF, department elite sport, we have carried out a benchmark in and with Sweden. The concept of sport gymnasiums in Sweden has been examined in the field of structure, finances, cooperation and the daily practice. We examined an athletic sport gymnasium to compare the policy with the daily routine. With this we supported the Dutch athletic organization with providing them with a start to develop an athletics gymnasium in the Netherlands.

We examined the possibilities to implement the Swedish system in the Netherlands. To make this possible, we examined several factors of the Swedish and Dutch sport culture. These factors are used for the recommendations towards NOC*NSF.

With this report, NOC*NSF has extended their view about the combination of sport and education in the Netherlands.

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