Skills development in and ThRough snooker

STROKE aims at developing innovative training program – Innovative snooker (IS) - for providing educational support to students and students – athletes in formal and in-formal learning environment. In this regard, project will establish a sustainable transnational cross-sectoral network of sport and educational institutions across Europe that will create interdisciplinary school curriculum aimed at building sports related skills along with the skills developed in key school subjects. Thus project will promote values of education in and through sports by encouraging the integration of snooker in the curricula of traditional school subjects – maths, physics and digital skills. The aim is to increase the employability of students by creating a tool for development of constructive skills and competences relevant and applicable to the labor market. In addition, STROKE addresses the objective of the Erasmus+ SPORT Program “to promote and support good governance in sport and dual careers of athletes”. The IS program will be designed to promote and support dual careers pathways of young snooker athletes by providing them opportunity to receive qualitative education in line with their sports training. This will support the efforts needed to keep talented young people in sports and educational systems and make them aware of the benefits of dual careers. The partnership brings together six institutions and organizations active in the field of sport and education at local, regional and EU level that will make a program applicable to wide range of educational challenges and needs. This will allow the snooker clubs to deliver it to the athletes and thus provide them educational services in addition to the training. It will help to improve the competence of high school students - athletes and coaches, increase the awareness of major stakeholders in sports and education about dual careers of athletes and elaborate new state of the art dual career path for athletes and coaches.