INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

8. Financing
sports career and an active life style as the ultimate goal (drug
abuse, aggression and violence, ethics in sport, psychological
and physiological benefits of physical activity, etc.)
This research project is financed by the Ministry of Education and
Sports, Olympic Committee of Serbia & Montenegro, Faculty of
Sports and Physical Education at the University of Belgrade.
9. Project development
Since its foundation in 1980 till today Olympic Games of Serbia’s
School Youth has good development tendency. This can be seen in the
increasing number of participants as well as sports disciplines and
organisation standards.
Carrying out this research will contribute to determining the
impacts of sports and Olympic spirit on life and sports attitudes of
Serbia’s school youth, and it will also be incentive for a wider
international exchange of research results leading to the initiative for
organising similar sports events in the Balkans. Taking into account
that Serbia & Montenegro, the city of Belgrade, is hosting the
European Youth Sports Festival (EYSF) in 2007, it is expected for the
results of this research to be presented on the international convention
that will take place at the time.
The project supports the idea of the Olympic spirit implying that
the quality of body, will and mind are united in a harmonised whole.
10. Authors:
Project Manager Branislav Jevtic, Ph. D, Faculty of Sports and
Physical Education, University of Belgrade (brano@net.yu, mob:
+381 64 11 804 81). In charge of the part of the project entitled
“School Olympic Games” is student - postgraduate Aleksandar Rakic
(alexrakan@yahoo.com).
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