The FCSF understands that in order to accomplish its mission, the theory and practice of the Fair Competition Program must be developed further and consolidated with the help of advanced research and the development of an innovative academic curriculum to support its teachings and implementation in sports.
From the appropriate understanding of sport competitions and its importance for sports and society, to improving how it is that competitions should be properly managed and organized, our vision is to create an academic and multidisciplinary assistance program for Grassroots competitions and its member communities that will ultimately help to improve the quality of sports participation from its base, and enhance the transformational power of sport competitions in our society.
In order to accomplish such vision, we are seeking strategic partnerships with reputable academic institutions that may help us in the pursuit of academic knowledge and solutions for these challenges.
With the collaboration of our sister foundation in Venezuela, Fundacolim, we will begin our first academic partnership with Universidad Metropolitana (UNIMET), the premier private University of Venezuela (click here to see further information in Spanish at Fundacolims' official portal).
Our plan is to replicate such academic collaboration with other reputable schools in the US and abroad in an effort to comply to the following research objectives and educational guidelines of our program:
1. To foster academic research on the proper understanding of Sport Competition and its roles in sport and society:
Proper research on sport competition is scarce in the academic world. As the foundation for our program, we need to foster academic research around the following guidelines:
1.1- To develop and implement a program to research all academic work on the definition of Sport Competition. We suggest that such effort should begin with reviewing the roots of the word competition, and find implications on its meaning on-the-field (sports), and its overall impact on society off-the-field. This is specially important when exploring the differences in use of the word competition in different languages around the world.
1.2- To develop and implement a study to analyze the organization and sustainability of sport competitions following the guidelines of system theory.
1.3- Develop academic publications, journals, and other literature that helps with the proper understanding of Sport Competitions and its importance in today’s sport industry and society as a whole.
2. To provide assistance in the design and development of the Fair Competition Program.
This aspect of our academic program is designed to enhance our ability to reach and service the Grassroots sport constituencies. To do so properly, we have designed it as a practical outreach program to assist Grassroots sporting communities with the understanding of Sport Competitions and its potential as an educational and transformational vehicle for its participants when implemented properly.
Following are the suggested goals corresponding to this part of our program:
2.1- To help improve the core principles of the Fair Competition Program and assist in the development of the plan needed for its implementation as a quality recognition program for Grassroots competitions.
2.2- To help develop the FCSF Comprehensive Competition and Outreach Seminars as the cornerstone of our implementation. This FCSF’s educational sporting event combines the experiences of our Comprehensive Competition as an international youth soccer tournament, with an off-the-field educational experience of Outreach Seminars. This competition is designed for U15 to U17 year-old student-athletes from all over the world. The Outreach Seminars are conducted with the presence of leading industry executives who share their knowledge and extraordinary personal histories while serving as role models for the players in the competition.
Our vision is to convert this competition and its seminars in an on-site opportunity for the FCSF in order to spread its knowledge, conduct further studies, demonstrate the theory of our academic programs, and serve as practical internship programs to our academic program students.
2.3- To help organize Outreach Seminars and other educational events for local Grassroots organizations such as competitions, State Associations, Youth or Adult
Leagues, Clubs or Teams.
2.4- To develop content, guides, documents and other academic materials to serve as Official Fair Competition research and assistance materials.
3. To design, develop and assist the FCSF in the implementation of the Academic curriculum for the Fair Competition Academic Course (FCAC), a much- needed course to teach the principles, basic operation, organization and educational power of the foundation of modern sports, the sport competition.
The Spanish version of the course is already being implemented with our sister foundation: Fundacolim, and the top private university of Venezuela, Universidad
Metropolitana (UNIMET). (Click here for further information in Spanish at Fundacolim's official portal.)
Our immediate goal is to develop a similar academic course in English with a reputable university in the US. Both the Spanish and the English courses focus on the proper understanding of the sport industry as conceived from its foundational cell -- the sport competition -- and its implications for players, coaches, administrators and other interested participants.
The academic consideration should focus on both theory and practical knowledge; it should be oriented to improve the management of Grassroots sports. For further information, please read the following section regarding “other academic programs for consideration” where we suggest the development of a sport management course for Grassroots coaches and administrators that use technology.
4. Other academic programs for consideration.
As per our mission, we at the FCSF are also working to improve sport competition administration processes and its management through the proper use of technology.
To that goal, we are working closely with Sportnity, a state-of-the-art web 2.0 platform devoted to sports, and we would like to present these other opportunities for research and implementation for consideration:
4.1- To assist in the digitization and study of Grassroots sporting communities and the development of on-line sport observatories for the dynamic study of sports.
Grassroots sports communities are by definition “a sport social network”: a union of individuals, or groups of individuals that get together to compete in their sport of choice. Competitions, therefore, are the force that makes them into a community.
We at the FCSF believe that by digitizing those Grassroots competitions and associated peripherals, we will be able to study and assist that sector of the sport in ways that will revolutionize their understanding, while helping to develop innovating services tailored to their needs.
Under such vision, the FCSF is working closely with Sportnity, a sport virtual community that was designed to reproduce such a structure as “organically” as possible on the Internet while helping communities become organize to “enhance what they already do” -- from the competition to the competitor and the fan.
Sportnity provides the FCSF with a unique platform to study the dynamics of sporting communities and will allow for researchers to develop real time “sport observatories”. These on-line observatories of sport competitions and their participating communities will become a unique and revolutionary source of information and research for the FCSF.
4.2- Developing and implementing a unique sport management program for Grassroots competitions.
We also believe that proper technologies can help the FCSF to assist Grassroots competitions in improving their administration practices. Much-needed benefits such as the standardization of terms and administration processes, transparency, and other experiential benefits can be transmitted to these organizations with the help of technology.
When considering this aspect of our program, as well as the research on system theory in conjunction with other collected knowledge of the FCSF, this presents a unique opportunity for individuals to specialize on a much-needed area of sports administration with emphasis on the following areas:
· The understanding of terms and processes that define a sport competition.
· The best use of technology to improve Grassroots sport administration.
· The enhancement the competition with the Fair Competition value system
4.3- The development of knowledge base service on-line assistance and education programs aimed for Grassroots sporting communities.
About the Fair Competition Sport Institute (FCSI)
Under such a set of guidelines and vision, our long-term academic goal is the combination of all these educational goals within one program: the “Fair Competition Sport Institute” (FCSI), an academic, outreach, and assistance program for Grassroots sports communities we aspire to develop with a reputable and visionary university ready to innovate education and improve sports and society with this program.
As per our mission, The Fair Competition Sport Institute would have the following objectives:
1- To foster academic research on the proper understanding of “Sport Competition” and its role in sport and society.
2- To provide assistance in the design and development of the “Fair Competition Program”, an outreach program to inform Grassroots sporting communities about the basic principles of sport competitions and its potential as an educational and transformational vehicle for its participants when properly implemented.
3- To design, develop and assist the FCSF in the implementation of the academic curriculum for the “Fair Competition Academic Course” (FCAC), a much-needed course to teach the principles, basic operation, and educational power of Sport Competitions that will be tailored for staff, volunteers and other populations of interest in sport. The primary emphasis of the program will be Grassroots sports.
From the appropriate understanding of sport competitions and its importance for sports and society, to improving how it is that competitions should be properly managed and organized, our vision is to create an academic and multidisciplinary assistance program for Grassroots competitions and its member communities that will ultimately help to improve the quality of sports participation from its base, and enhance the transformational power of sport competitions in our society.
In order to accomplish such vision, we are seeking strategic partnerships with reputable academic institutions that may help us in the pursuit of academic knowledge and solutions for these challenges.
With the collaboration of our sister foundation in Venezuela, Fundacolim, we will begin our first academic partnership with Universidad Metropolitana (UNIMET), the premier private University of Venezuela (click here to see further information in Spanish at Fundacolims' official portal).
Our plan is to replicate such academic collaboration with other reputable schools in the US and abroad in an effort to comply to the following research objectives and educational guidelines of our program:
1. To foster academic research on the proper understanding of Sport Competition and its roles in sport and society:
Proper research on sport competition is scarce in the academic world. As the foundation for our program, we need to foster academic research around the following guidelines:
1.1- To develop and implement a program to research all academic work on the definition of Sport Competition. We suggest that such effort should begin with reviewing the roots of the word competition, and find implications on its meaning on-the-field (sports), and its overall impact on society off-the-field. This is specially important when exploring the differences in use of the word competition in different languages around the world.
1.2- To develop and implement a study to analyze the organization and sustainability of sport competitions following the guidelines of system theory.
1.3- Develop academic publications, journals, and other literature that helps with the proper understanding of Sport Competitions and its importance in today’s sport industry and society as a whole.
2. To provide assistance in the design and development of the Fair Competition Program.
This aspect of our academic program is designed to enhance our ability to reach and service the Grassroots sport constituencies. To do so properly, we have designed it as a practical outreach program to assist Grassroots sporting communities with the understanding of Sport Competitions and its potential as an educational and transformational vehicle for its participants when implemented properly.
Following are the suggested goals corresponding to this part of our program:
2.1- To help improve the core principles of the Fair Competition Program and assist in the development of the plan needed for its implementation as a quality recognition program for Grassroots competitions.
2.2- To help develop the FCSF Comprehensive Competition and Outreach Seminars as the cornerstone of our implementation. This FCSF’s educational sporting event combines the experiences of our Comprehensive Competition as an international youth soccer tournament, with an off-the-field educational experience of Outreach Seminars. This competition is designed for U15 to U17 year-old student-athletes from all over the world. The Outreach Seminars are conducted with the presence of leading industry executives who share their knowledge and extraordinary personal histories while serving as role models for the players in the competition.
Our vision is to convert this competition and its seminars in an on-site opportunity for the FCSF in order to spread its knowledge, conduct further studies, demonstrate the theory of our academic programs, and serve as practical internship programs to our academic program students.
2.3- To help organize Outreach Seminars and other educational events for local Grassroots organizations such as competitions, State Associations, Youth or Adult
Leagues, Clubs or Teams.
2.4- To develop content, guides, documents and other academic materials to serve as Official Fair Competition research and assistance materials.
3. To design, develop and assist the FCSF in the implementation of the Academic curriculum for the Fair Competition Academic Course (FCAC), a much- needed course to teach the principles, basic operation, organization and educational power of the foundation of modern sports, the sport competition.
The Spanish version of the course is already being implemented with our sister foundation: Fundacolim, and the top private university of Venezuela, Universidad
Metropolitana (UNIMET). (Click here for further information in Spanish at Fundacolim's official portal.)
Our immediate goal is to develop a similar academic course in English with a reputable university in the US. Both the Spanish and the English courses focus on the proper understanding of the sport industry as conceived from its foundational cell -- the sport competition -- and its implications for players, coaches, administrators and other interested participants.
The academic consideration should focus on both theory and practical knowledge; it should be oriented to improve the management of Grassroots sports. For further information, please read the following section regarding “other academic programs for consideration” where we suggest the development of a sport management course for Grassroots coaches and administrators that use technology.
4. Other academic programs for consideration.
As per our mission, we at the FCSF are also working to improve sport competition administration processes and its management through the proper use of technology.
To that goal, we are working closely with Sportnity, a state-of-the-art web 2.0 platform devoted to sports, and we would like to present these other opportunities for research and implementation for consideration:
4.1- To assist in the digitization and study of Grassroots sporting communities and the development of on-line sport observatories for the dynamic study of sports.
Grassroots sports communities are by definition “a sport social network”: a union of individuals, or groups of individuals that get together to compete in their sport of choice. Competitions, therefore, are the force that makes them into a community.
We at the FCSF believe that by digitizing those Grassroots competitions and associated peripherals, we will be able to study and assist that sector of the sport in ways that will revolutionize their understanding, while helping to develop innovating services tailored to their needs.
Under such vision, the FCSF is working closely with Sportnity, a sport virtual community that was designed to reproduce such a structure as “organically” as possible on the Internet while helping communities become organize to “enhance what they already do” -- from the competition to the competitor and the fan.
Sportnity provides the FCSF with a unique platform to study the dynamics of sporting communities and will allow for researchers to develop real time “sport observatories”. These on-line observatories of sport competitions and their participating communities will become a unique and revolutionary source of information and research for the FCSF.
4.2- Developing and implementing a unique sport management program for Grassroots competitions.
We also believe that proper technologies can help the FCSF to assist Grassroots competitions in improving their administration practices. Much-needed benefits such as the standardization of terms and administration processes, transparency, and other experiential benefits can be transmitted to these organizations with the help of technology.
When considering this aspect of our program, as well as the research on system theory in conjunction with other collected knowledge of the FCSF, this presents a unique opportunity for individuals to specialize on a much-needed area of sports administration with emphasis on the following areas:
· The understanding of terms and processes that define a sport competition.
· The best use of technology to improve Grassroots sport administration.
· The enhancement the competition with the Fair Competition value system
4.3- The development of knowledge base service on-line assistance and education programs aimed for Grassroots sporting communities.
About the Fair Competition Sport Institute (FCSI)
Under such a set of guidelines and vision, our long-term academic goal is the combination of all these educational goals within one program: the “Fair Competition Sport Institute” (FCSI), an academic, outreach, and assistance program for Grassroots sports communities we aspire to develop with a reputable and visionary university ready to innovate education and improve sports and society with this program.
As per our mission, The Fair Competition Sport Institute would have the following objectives:
1- To foster academic research on the proper understanding of “Sport Competition” and its role in sport and society.
2- To provide assistance in the design and development of the “Fair Competition Program”, an outreach program to inform Grassroots sporting communities about the basic principles of sport competitions and its potential as an educational and transformational vehicle for its participants when properly implemented.
3- To design, develop and assist the FCSF in the implementation of the academic curriculum for the “Fair Competition Academic Course” (FCAC), a much-needed course to teach the principles, basic operation, and educational power of Sport Competitions that will be tailored for staff, volunteers and other populations of interest in sport. The primary emphasis of the program will be Grassroots sports.
