„LIVING FAIR PLAY“ - COOPERATION OF THE CROATIAN MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND SPORT, CROATIAN FAIR PLAY COMMITTEE AND CROATIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Caput-Jogunica, R., Muždalo, N., Vrbek, B., Brkljacic, M., Ozmec, J. and Jukic, G. Croatian Fair Play Committee

“ Even the highest perspectives and noblest messages remain a dead letter if there is no person who will, with the appropriate expertise, experience and wisdom, know how to put it to everyday practice.” (Maggi, 2001) 2

Introduction Cooperation of Government and Non-government Organisation in Preserving Olympic values and Fair Play Preparations – organisation – publications (Congress proceedings: abstracts and articles) 17. EUROPEAN FAIR PLAY CONGRESS, POREČ, CROATIA, 2011 (Congress’ articles) Ministry of Science, Education and Sport: Action plan for the implementation of the programme of educational measures in the fight against violence in sports, sports competitions and outside of them (2007) ( Action plan-no violence in sports) Croatian Fair Play Committee – one representative from the Ministry (2012) Lack of the publication about fair play  3

Main goal (2013 – 2015)  …is to raise awareness of the role fair play has in everyday life and sports  To present the activities which the proper government and non-government bodies for sports and fair play are carrying out,  to introduce: the fair play movement (system, historical development; all kinds of fair play awards and sports achievment)  To identify the role coaches, judges and the media have in fair play;  to present opinions, messages and achievements of Croatian athletes, coaches and judges 4

Stories and messages of fair play from top level athletes 5

“LIVING FAIR PLAY” - target groups  Teachers  Professional staff in institutions of education  Coaches  Parents  Young athletes  Journalists 6

Thematic units  nine chapters - planned and made within the framework of the Action plan for the implementation of the programme of educational measures in the fight against violence in sports, sports competitions and outside of them  Croatian and english language: 1. Basics of fair play (definition, organisation, history) 2. Stories and messages of fair play from Croatian athletes 3. Ethics and sports (term, role of teachers, PE teacher) 4. Fair play awards and achievements of Croatian athletes (fair play awards and winners, Croatian Schools Sports Federation) 7

LIVING FAIR PLAY - thematic units 6. Fair play in practice (activities – specific group – results) 7. Fair play and sports competitions (key persons – influence) 8. Fair play messages from coaches and judges (code, research) 9. What is fair play and do the Croatian media recognise it? Concluding remarks Literature 8

Analysis of the Action plan and evaluation of the achieved results Review of School Prevention Programmes (Conference, Brac, Croatia, 2014) prevention programmes – 35 elementary schools “How I support and how I behave when playing sports” (2010); “How I Support and Act when Playing Sport” (e-guide) In 2012 the Government of Croatia founded the National Committee to Fight Violence in Sport at the suggestion of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport and Ministry of Justice; ……. 9

GO and NGO cooperation GO:  Ministry of Science, Education and Sport  Education and teacher training agency NGOs:  Croatian Olympic Committee (national sports federations, athletes, judges…)  Croatian Fair Play Committee (all members – team work)  Croatian Sports Journalists Association  sent to all Croatian elementary and secondary schools, national sports federations….  Electronic version ( or  Promotions (congress, seminars) 10

from the Concluding remarks “With this publication we tried raise awareness, promote and point out the most important factors involved in creating a sporting atmosphere all the while aware of the fact there is still a huge unused space in front of us and that only the joint effort of parties which participate and those which can affect a safe sport surrounding can bring the expected results in the future.” LIVING FAIR PLAY! 11

Thank you for the attention! 12