COMPASS means Creative Orienteering Model for Physical Activity and Science in Schools. The project will elaborate a toolkit for a school outdoor education program that will use orienteering in a non-formal setting in physical education and biology. All project activities will facilitate the elaboration of an innovative sport educational model of COMPASS. It will strengthen the link sport club - school. COMPASS will be piloted in 10 upper secondary schools among volunteer students. 120 talented orienteering athletes from 30 orienteering clubs, coaches and teachers will be trained in this educational and training program. More than 700 members of sport clubs will benefit from the educational model and toolkit elaborated. Clubs will be responsible for the successful implementation and afterwards experimentation of the program in schools. Project experts will develop 4 educational modules for athletes, coaches and teachers, thus preparing them for their final experimental phase in schools. Sport clubs are foundation of the European sport system pyramid. The project will support clubs in a special sport – orienteering, which is not commercial and well financed as most popular European sports. Clubs have the direct relations with athletes and coaches. Some of the athletes are talents that must be further developed to stay in sport while they are in education. COMPASS will give resources to clubs to provide dual career program for their talented athletes and coaches. Thus, the project will promote education in and through sport with a special focus on skills development as well as support EU Dual Career of Athletes Guidelines. With elaboration of a club-based dual career model for talented athletes and coaches COMPASS will show EU stakeholders in sports and education the right direction to a prosperous use of education in and through sport with regard to the support of a Dual Career domain on the EU map.
