The qualification system of German Sports Organisations

Palabras claves: ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA/DEPORTES/SOCIEDAD

Title: THE QUALIFICATION SYSTEM OF GERMAN SPORTS ORGANISATIONS
Author: Ms. Wiebke Fabinski
Institution: German Olympic Sports Confederation
Country: Germany

Fuente: Foro Mundial de Educación Física; II Cumbre Iberoamericana de Educación Física y Deporte Escolar; Simposio de Actividad Física y Calidad de Vida; Taller Internacional de  Deporte Escolar y Alto Rendimiento, 2010.

ABSTRACT
More than 27 million members, organized in 91,000 sports clubs and 97 federations under the roof of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), constitute the largest association of persons in Germany.
Sports clubs in Germany offer a wide range of different sports activities. From high performance sports to sports for all activities and health sports courses or programmes for target groups as elderly or handicapped people – you will find programmes for almost every requirement. Most of the people (app.90%) who offer these courses are voluntarily engaged with their activity. As diverse as sports programmes and the engagement in club activities may be, as diverse are the qualifications needed for them, as well. For this reason, sports organizations offer a wide range of education, advanced and continuing training.
The sports associations, which are organized under the DOSB roof, have a differentiated system of qualification which sets high standards in terms of basic, advanced and continuing training. They determine the criteria for a DOSB licence of education, layed down in the Rahmenrichtlinien für Qualifizierung (General Guidelines of Qualification). By using them as a common basis, the sport organizations develop the respective conceptions of education, according to which they train and further educate male and female coaches, exercise instructors, club managers and youth leaders.
There are more than 600 different education courses, sports, sport disciplines and profiles for basic and advanced training offered by sports organizations, which lead to a DOSB licence. According to up-to-date statistics, more than 500,000 persons hold a valid DOSB licence. Every year more than 40,000 club members finish a course of training with a DOSB licence.
In addition to these training programmes, the sports organizations offer numerous advanced training courses within their educational programmes, which do not lead to a DOSB licence but take up trends and special topics related to sports club work.
In this way organized sport is one of the largest organizations which offers education in German civil society.
This lecture will give an overview of the qualification system of sports organisations in Germany.