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Training and expertise centres for sport performance (centres de ressources, d'expertise et de performance sportive – CREPS) are regional public training institutions in the fields of sport, youth and popular education.
They take part together with State department for sport to the national policy for sport and physical activities and to training in related field. CREPS contribute to protect health conditions of athletes and preserve sport ethics. They perform on behalf of the State and the Regional councils following missions:
- Ensure, in conjunction with the sports federations, training and preparation of top athletes ensuring reconciliating the search of athletic performance and academic achievement, academic and professional progression of athletes;
- Participate in the national network dedicated to high-level sport
- Implement training and continuing education in the areas of physical activity and sport
CREPS of Ile de France Region (“CREPS Ile de France”) is delivering vocational training for all level of qualifications, basing on apprenticeship principle, targeting more than 1000 trainees per year and covering more 8 sport disciplines (swimming, judo, fitness, boxe, Badminton, Hockey, Volley ball, hand ball...).
CREPS Ile de France is also supporting high level athletes in partnership with sport federations, hosting in its premises and facilities more than 199 athltes, in more than 7 sport disciplines. 166 athletes are permanent resident (Almost 145 of them are young athletes). CREPS is providing highly trained coach to deliver this support. It focuses on dual career process.
National Governing Body for Canoeing in Scotland. Membership organisation comprising around 3200 individual members including 1,750 qualified coaches.
SCA have a network of affiliated clubs and approved paddlesport providers throughout Scotland offering a range of canoe disciplines. The active SCA membership is supported by a small team of staff in the areas of: Coaching & Development, Performance and Administration. The SCA is also a founding member of British Canoeing (formally known as British Canoe Union).
What SCA does:
• Represent its members’ interests within Scotland and, through British Canoeing, in the UK
• Support individual and affiliated club development
• Work to protect, improve and promote responsible access to water in Scotland and care of the environment
• Support the achievements of Scottish paddlers at all levels including the sportscotland funded programmes for Olympic disciplines
• Support and improve quality coaching for all forms of canoeing and kayaking
• Provide conferences, exhibitions, events, tours and competitions
• Publish information for members,
The SCA runs a Performance programme aiming at supporting Athletes from 15 to 23 years old athletes to reach Great Britain team and World Class programmes (Finalist at U18 and U23 European and/or World championships).
The SCA works in partnership with sportscotland Institute of Sport to provide sport science services to its programme athletes including mental preparation with sport psychologist.
CSI is a non-profit association, based on voluntary work, promoting sport as a moment of education, growth, social engagement and aggregation, prompted by the Christian vision of man and history at the service of the people and the territory.
Among the most ancient sports promoting associations in our country, CSI meets the demand of a sport that is not only numerical, but also qualified on the professional, human and social level. Youngsters always make up our main reference point, even if the promoted sports activities are devoted to any age bracket.
Educating through sports is the mission of CSI. This is consolidated in the procedure and conscience of the association on all levels. Sport intended by Csi can also be a prevention instrument of some particular social pathologies such as loneliness, fears, dreads, doubts, deviances of the youngest.
CSI is a sports promoting institution spread all over the national territory acknowledged by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). It is recognized by the Italian Episcopal Conference as a Christian inspired association.
It is recognized by the Interior Department as a national institution with charitable aims. It is registered in the national register of Social Promotion Associations, recognized by the Ministry of Work and Social Policies. It is recognized by the Department of Education, University and Scientific Research as an accredited institution for the formation of school staff. It has stipulated an understanding protocol for the organization and promotion of sensitization and information actions devoted to students, teachers and parents on the value of sports practice as well as formation, updating pathways and meeting occasions for teachers and parents. It has an understanding protocol with the Ministry of Justice to promote reinsertion and social inclusion activities devoted to the youngest moving around in the external penal area.
It is an institution accredited by the National Office for Civil Service to manage projects of voluntary civil service. It is a member of the National Court of Laical Aggregation (Cnal). It represents Italy internationally within the Fédération Internationale Catholique d'Education Physique et Sportive (Ficep). It is a member of the Permanent Forum in the Third Sector and has signed cooperation conventions with the Italian Parents Association, with the Childline, etc.
Along seventy years of experience working on sports at all levels, the CSI created and managed several projects and most of them aimed to promote sport activity among youngsters.
Some examples:
“2 YOU, DUE VOLTE RAGAZZI”: three years of projecting, realization and management activities in twenty center of aggregation and promotion of youth participation.
The project aimed:
• to promote the central role of the youth during the adolescence;
• to foster opportunities of socialization and prevention of the youth distress, including addiction and school dropout.
“ANCHE TU! PER SPORT...”: with a large range of sports proposals for high school students, the project aimed to provide to them the basic knowledge for becoming a sport activity organizer and promoter.
The objectives of the projects were:
• Collecting the best practices on management and promotion the sport associations;
• Promoting healthy lifestyles and active citizenship;
• Enhance the individual and collective sports culture.
“PRONTI, PARTENZA, VIA!”: the project aimed to recover and requalify sporting spaces for creating real center of interests in the identified quarters.
The project involved the youngsters, families, schools, educators and the project actions focused on nutritional and healthy lifestyle education, physical fitness and personal development.
“STAND UP!”: Practicing sports, the project aimed to:
• promote a process of experimentation and learning the rights of girls and boys; promote a circuit of multisport activities at school;
• promote reflection on the benefits of sport, through the talk shows for schools, tournaments, promotional materials and the teaching kit, portal, etc.;
• promote the use of new technologies in the education of boys and girls, for combining formal and informal learning; spread the rights of the child in the sport and raise awareness on issues related to it.
