Promoting Education, Skills Development & & Dual Careers in Alpine Skiing

Building on the results of the DC4SKI project, this collaborative partnership has the double aim of promoting coaches’ education and skills development and to create dual careers opportunities for Alpine ski racers – with special focus on the higher education phase – by implementing the EU Guidelines on Dual Careers in Alpine Skiing. Running from 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2022 (36 months), the collaborative partnership will achieve these objectives thanks to a network formed by 8 institutions (ski race clubs, ski federations and universities) coming from 7 different countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Latvia, Greece, Slovenia, Ireland plus the United States). Together they will: - Innovate in Alpine ski training, by creating education and skills development opportunities for Alpine ski coaches, elaborating innovative pedagogical tools and best practices for Alpine ski training, which will allow to trade quantity (on snow) with quality (on and off-snow). - Make such innovative pedagogical tools freely available to all European Alpine Ski coaches on the network’s website - in the form of a manual, an e-book and videos. - Create a European Alpine Ski Coaches’ Clinic and a European Network of Alpine Ski Coaches which will continue promoting education and skills development opportunities for coaches also after the end of this collaborative partnership's lifetime. - Create Dual Careers opportunities for European Alpine ski racers, by creating a Network of European Ski High Schools and a European Network of Mountain Universities, as well as by developing Higher Educations degrees specific for mountain professionals.