Team Up

Team Up general objective is to promote education in and through sports more specifically to promote the quality of coaching in grassroots football and basketball (F&B) by setting up cross-curricular and trans-European network of sports and educational stakeholders to realise a challenging innovative project. The project partners will develop, test, evaluate and disseminate a sustainable European F&B model for increasing the sports organisations capacity in terms of coaches’ education and training. Team Up envisages to elaborate for the first time in Europe sports federation - based grassroots coaching educational program based on new Methodology aimed at innovative training of the youth in football and basketball. Team Up project will be pilot delivered among 90 coaches ( min 50% women) and 480 athletes ( min. 50% women) from 30 EU sports clubs and it is expected to impact 250 football, 65 basketball clubs and 2000 athletes according to PPC estimations. Team Up will attract experts from the sports, education, science, health, and business sector in preparing the first European football and basketball merged interplay model consisting of one new training methodology and inter sport coaches’ educational modules which will completely change the traditional methods of grassroots F&B training in Project participating countries (PPC) and beyond them after the project end. The greatest challenge at Team Up is the elaboration of inter sports playing methodology which only recently appeared in sports scientific literature and some professional sports clubs started to apply in youth trainings. The new Methodology will be focused on the young athletes’ overall sports development, raising their knowledge and interest in sports as well as their physical activity level.