Elite school of sport

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Sign "Elite School of Sports" at a location in Tauberbischofsheim

Elite School of Sport is a predicate that through the Olympic German Sports Federation is awarded (DOSB) on educational institutions dedicated to the promotion of competitive sports in cooperation with school and residential focus. The predicate is awarded for a four-year period ( Olympic cycle ). Each facility is linked to an Olympic base .

definition

“ An elite school of sport is a support institution that guarantees conditions in the cooperative association of competitive sport, school and living so that talented young athletes can prepare for future top performance in sport while maintaining their school education opportunities. "

- Federal Conference of Elite Schools of Sports, Leipzig 2002

recognition

The status is recognized by the working group “Elite Schools of Sports” upon application. After the four-year period has expired, the existing elite schools will be reviewed and their status will be reappointed or revoked. The working group is made up of one representative from each of the following institutions: DOSB / Competitive Sports Division (Chair), Sparkassen Finance Group, Conference of Ministers of Education (Commission Sports), Conference of Sports Ministers (Committee "Competitive Sports" of the Conference of Sports Speakers), the German Sports Aid Foundation and one other member of the DOSB.

These excellent funding institutions can be schools as well as boarding schools and their associations. There are currently 43 institutions in total with 108 secondary schools, secondary schools, comprehensive schools and grammar schools. 29 schools specialize in summer sports and seven in winter sports. Another seven schools have cross-departmental focal points.

The granting of this status is intended to maintain or improve the conditions at the elite schools that enable talented young athletes to prepare for future top performance in sport while preserving their educational opportunities at school. For the implementation in the individual federal states, the DOSB works closely with regional team leaders. These are determined and coordinated by the Olympic Training Centers (OSP). The main financial sponsor of the elite sports schools is the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe. Most of the successor institutions of the children's and youth sports schools in the GDR now have the status of an “elite school of sports”.

However, the framework conditions cannot prevent an evaluation study from establishing that each of the actors involved viewed the school from their own point of view and that “there are different views between the actors with regard to the concrete implementation measures within the quality areas”. This means that the schools' potential is not being used.

Requirement for recognition

The working group checks the following six criteria:

  • Conditions for athletic training
  • Coordination and management of the time budget
  • regional and supra-regional effects
  • Coordination and organizational structure
  • overall pedagogical concepts under competitive sporting aspects
  • sporting and educational successes

successes

Around 11,500 talents will be promoted at the 43 elite sports schools in 2019. At the Olympic Games in London 2012 , 27 percent of the German participants were current or former students of elite schools, at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 it was 52 percent.

schools

Locations of the elite schools of sport:

Other elite schools

There are also comparable institutions in other European countries, for example the Topsport Talent Schools in the Netherlands , while in Scandinavia the separation of young top athletes is avoided.

Similar institutions of the German Football Association are the elite football schools .

Awards

Every year one of the schools is named “Elite School of the Year”.

Since 2009, three “ Elite Sports Students ” have been awarded prizes for their athletic and academic achievements as well as exemplary behavior.

Web links

Commons : Elite School of Sports  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ Definition ( memento of July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the DOSB website
  2. ^ S. Creutzburg, V. Scheid: Quality development at partner schools of competitive sports. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-7780-3227-5 , p. 141.
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sports schools. Performance sports 45 (2015) 6, pp 34-35.