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As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups, and to ensure the project sustainability by continued use of the project deliverables over the next years.

The associate partners of the Not Only Fair Play project are organisations interested in the promotion of sport at school. All associated partners share the project objectives and are willing to contribute to their achievement.

Institutions and organisations interested in becoming associated partners of the Not Ony Fair Play project can contact the national coordinators of the project.

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NAME OF THE ORGANISATION
Sector “Research and development in sports” (Methodology and metrology)
TYPE OF INSTITUTION
Higher Education
CITY
Sofia
ADDRESS
1700, Sofia, Studentski grad
COUNTRY
Bulgaria
NAME OF CONTACT PERSON 1
Orlin Groshev
EMAIL OF CONTACT PERSON 1
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANISATION
The “Theory of sport training” department with leader assoc.prof. Tsvetan Jeliazkov is founded with a decision of the Academic Council of the Higher Institute for Physical Education from 1 November 1973. It attracted specialists with rich theoretical-methodic and practical experience from:
- “Swimming” department – senior research associate Kliment Boichev and research associate Alexandar Tsvetkov;
- “Track-and-field athletics” department – head assistant Yanosh Brogly;
- Theory of physical education” department – head assistant Maria Kvartirnikova;
- The research center – Liliana Petkova.
Two new disciplines are included in the curriculum of the Institute: Theory of sport training and Fundamentals of research work, which includes methodology and metrology of research work and applied statistics - the education in which is the main task of the sector "Methodology and metrology".

Few main tasks are set before the department’s team:
- high level of the teaching process with the department’s students;
- developing and introducing new methods and technologies in the research and applied activities;
- systematical and careful study of the world experience in the sphere of elite sport;
- active participation of the Olympic preparation of our athletes.

The realization of these tasks was vastly broadened by the new needs of elite sport. The department has decided them for 30 years in closer cooperation with the specialized and the general theoretical departments of the Institute, the Research center and Bulgarian Sports Federations.

The teachers staff of ex and current teachers includes 15 persons – three professors, eight associate professors, two – head assistants, one chief assistant and one full-time post-graduate student. Two of the members of the department team are Doctors of Science. Ten of the department’s team have Ph.D.s. Apart from the academic titles and degrees, the department’s members have many sport distinctions: 1 honored coach, 2 masters of sports, 2 candidate masters, 7 had been republican champions or national competitors.

Special attention deserve the achievements of the chief assistant Sv. Neikov as a many times republican champion and during the last years as coach of the national rowing team and personal coach of the World champion and Olympic vice-champion R. Neikova.

At the moment the department had full-time and extramural education of students on Theory and methods of sport training and Fundamentals of research work in the three faculties of NSA with bachelor, master and doctor programs.
HOW THE ORGANISATION WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE PROJECT RESULTS
The sector will support the Bulgarian partner under the project to disseminate information about the project and its results among its students, trainers and coaches.

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