The elite coaching program is aimed at people who are thinking of a career as an elite coach in junior or senior sports.

The training is designed according to international guidelines for trainer training issued by the International Council of Coaching Excellence (ICCE).

"The new trainer program has the potential to significantly increase the skills of the next generation of elite and national team coaches in Swedish sports," says Kent Lindahl, head of the Swedish National Sports University at the Swedish National Sports Association.

Collaboration initiated

One challenge for the new education is that there is not room for all different sports. In order to remedy this problem, cooperation has been initiated with a number of specialized sports associations.

- In this way, the students gain sufficient knowledge and skills to function as an elite coach in their special sport, says Mattias Lundberg at the Department of Psychology and responsible for development work.