The Italian Volleyball Federation Presents

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The Italian Volleyball FederationPresents

• ITALIAN VOLLEYBALL
• ROUNDTRIP TO SCHOOL

Presenter Mr. Francesco Castiglione Italian
Volleyball Federation
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SummaryThe Italian Volleyball Federation enters
in the school educational system for the
promotion, development and maintenance of
volleyball in all its forms from recreational
through the high level performance.To have a
clear idea of what is our experience we will
approach these main guidelines

• Italian country population and territorial
  organization
• Italian Sport Organization system
• The Italian Volleyball Federation movement and
  organization
• The Italian Volleyball Federation Promotion and
  Developing Department at School
• The Italian School system
• Special Projects from the Italian Volleyball
  Federation entering the National public School
  system

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Special Projects from the Italian Volleyball
Federation entering the National public School
system

• 1,2,3, .. MINIVOLLEY at the primary school
• 2. 1,2,3, .. VOLLEY at the middle school
• 3. VOLLEY SCHOOL at the high school
• 4. From the Volleyball Clubs to the primary
  school

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Italian country populationand territorial
organization

• Italy is located in central Europe and has 59
  millions of inhabitants in a surface of 301.000
  square metres .

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• It is divided in 20 different regions, each
  region has several provinces for a total of 109
  different provinces.
• The population from 0 to 14 years old represents
  the 14,00 of the total population.
• The density for inhabitants is of 196 per square
  meter.
• Women are 1,7 millions more than mens.

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The Italian Sport Organization system

• The Italian Olympic National Committee has 3,5
  millions of members throughout all the National
  Sport Federations.
• There are more than 58.000 Sport Clubs affiliated
  to the National federations with a total of
  950.000 participants divided from athletes,
  officials, coaches and referees.
• One fifth of the Italian population plays at
  least one sport.
• The largest number of sport clubs affiliate to
  Federation is Soccer with 14.152 Clubs with 1
  million and 51 thousand members than volleyball
  with 4.842 affiliate clubs and 294.446
  participants and basketball that has 3.589 clubs
  with 278.362 participants.
• Those three federations make the 38,7 of all
  the affiliated clubs in the country and have the
  46,6 of the total o members in Italy .
• The average of participation in sports for the
  school population from 11 to 14 years old reaches
  the 45,5 .

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The Italian Volleyball Federation
FIPAVmovement and organization

• The FIPAV (Italian Volleyball Federation) has a
  national structure and regional and provincial
  structures.
• The Regional and provincial committee will follow
  the directions from the National structure and
  will adapt it to their local reality and needs.
• The FIPAV National Qualification Centre follow
  different fields of activities Athletes -
  Referees - Coaches - Officials Medical
  Commission Antidoping

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Each Region has the same structure as
Qualification Centre and also the Provinces do
the same.

• NATIONAL QUALIFICATION CENTRE - 1
• REGIONAL QUALIFICATION CENTRE - 20
• PROVINCIAL QUALIFICATION CENTRE - 109
• FIPAV MEMBERS
• Clubs 4.842
• Coaches 16.777
• Athletes 298.399
• Referees 4.406

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TOTAL OF FIPAV CLUB TEAMS PARTECIPATING IN
OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS (2005-2006)

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NATIONAL ITALIAN VOLLEYBALLS TEAMS

• MENS SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM
• MENS JUNIORES NATIONAL TEAM
• MENS PRE JUNIORES NATIONAL TEAM
• WOMENS SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM
• WOMENS JUNIORES NATIONAL TEAM
• WOMENS PRE JUNIORES NATIONAL TEAM
• Provinces and regions teams
• BOYS REGIONAL TEAM 16 UNDER
• BOYS PROVINCIAL TEAM 15 UNDER
• GIRLS REGIONAL TEAM 14 UNDER
• GIRLS PROVINCIAL TEAM 13 UNDER

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The Italian Volleyball FederationPromotion and
developing Department at School
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• Volleyball at school is present in the Italian
  Volleyball federation with the Promotion and
  developing Department at School and youth
  programmes.
• The aim of the department is to promote the
  developing of projects where the educational
  goals are in evidence compared with the agonist
  aspect.
• The department is divide in three different areas
  
• School area create and develops projects in
  partnership between the school institutions and
  the volleyball federation.
• Promotional area deals with the promotional and
  recreational volleyball activities in
  partnership with the Promotion Sportive
  Institutions
• Developing area produces researches and studies
  on the models of the game suitable for the
  different areas of the game.

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• The Promotion and developing Department at School
  is composed from a Board of Direction composed by
  a member of the Federation Board of
  Administration, a Technical Coordinator, the
  three different areas coordinators and a
  administration secretary
• The Board duties consist in approving and finance
  the projects presented by the different areas and
  to keep the relationships with the Federation
  bodies and the external relations with the
  Olympic Committee and the Minister of Public
  Education .

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The Italian School System

• The school of early childhood is for children
  from 3 to 5 years old , is not mandatory and it
  lasts 3 years.
• The Primary or Elementary school is for
  children from 6 to 10 years old , it is
  mandatory and it lasts 5 years.
• The Secondary School is divided in First grade
  and Second grade.
• The first grade or Middle school is for students
  from 11 to 14 years old, it lasts 3 years and it
  is mandatory.
• The second grade on the Secondary school is for
  students from 15 to 19 years old, it lasts 5
  years and it is not mandatory there are different
  area of studies that the student can approach.
• In the Primary schools the physical education
  activities are taught buy the same teacher who
  has not a specific knowledge of physical
  education and the University degree is not
  requested.

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• In the first and second level of the secondary
  school instead there are 2 hour per week of
  physical education and the teacher must have an
  university degree in PE.
• Beside the PE classes in the secondary school
  there are some lessons of sportive activities
  after school schedule hours. In this classes the
  PE teacher trains the students for the Sport
  Student Games (maximum 6 ours per week) witch
  involves all the sport disciplines and this
  programme ends with the nation finals.
• In the last ten years the Italian School System
  experienced important changes going from a
  central oriented organization to a local
  administration where the single schools now have
  more self organization duties in teaching and in
  the administration field.
• Keeping the Nation Educational goals now the
  school has more capabilities to draw their own
  path to reach the education of the student.
• The school now can deal directly with sport or
  other cultural agencies , privates or public,
  that can give a contribution to the education
  project of the schools.

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1, 2 , 3 .. Minivolley !!!Kinder Sport Re
..evolution at school !!
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Project for the Primary SchoolSchool Year 2006-
2007

• THE PROJECT
• The 1,2,3 minivolley project intend to
  increase the practice of physical education in
  the elementary schools throughout the play of the
  minivolley game.
• The Italian Ministry of Public Education had
  recently point out, once more, the importance of
  the physical education in the elementary school
  as tool of the full education of the person. The
  Ministry promoted new initiatives to give more
  power to the school system in partnership with
  the sport field at national and regional level.

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• The Italian Volleyball Federation, directly and
  together with the district committees and the
  sport associations, has already settled down a
  relation with the elementary schools base on many
  different initiatives that helped to develop
  minivolley as a tool able to accomplish important
  education goals.
• Now we will see a promotional video that is
  distributed to all the Primary Schools and it is
  an introduction an promotion of the Minivolley.
• As you will see the Coach of the Italian
  Volleyball Mens national team and the players
  will show to childrens the secrets of the
  minivolley. Please play the video !

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ACTIONS

• The Project has been presented to the media, to
  the schools and to the Federations local
  Committees an in a national press conference in
  Rome on December 14 2006 at the presence of the
  Ministry of Sport and Education and of the Board
  of Administration of the Italian Volleyball
  Federation.
• The Project will last 3 years and it is planned
  that between the school years 2007 and 2009 the
  Primary schools will receive 10,500 Minivolley
  Kits (courts, balls, coaching manuals, videos).
• The plan is to deliver the project to 65 of the
  Italian primary schools reaching 1.600.000
  students.

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PURPOSES

• The 1,2,3 minivolley project aims to promote
  the play of the minivolley game in the elementary
  school pointing out the education aspects of the
  game.
• The game must be considered as a teaching method
  able to contribute with the other teaching
  methods.
• The final aim is to participate in the global
  education system to obtain a balanced development
  of the child personality.
• One of the most important goals of this project
  will be to search the means and the strategies to
  keep up the relation with the schools using the
  experience already had with the volleyball
  movement at national and local level.

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• Minivolley will be presented as an easy sport to
  learn and to teach.
• The child that begins to play minivolley will
  learn and gain satisfaction in a short period of
  time.
• All will be achieved throughout the organization
  of courses, tournaments and events that will see
  as role player the students of the elementary
  schools together with the teachers in partnership
  with the volleyball clubs of the area interested
  in the project.
• The initiatives methods will be the same at
  national level with training courses that will be
  carried out with images communication language,
  movies and multimedia technologies.

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GOALS

• The project goals are
• To increase the practice of qualified motorial
  activities especially of the minivolley in the
  primary school.
• To study and use a game model that , putting in
  evidence the educational aspects of minivolley,
  will suit the first and second cycle of the
  primary school both for boys and girls.
• To circulate and make a careful study of the
  knowledge of the teachers on the primary school
  of the motorial activities programmes in general
  and specifically of the minivolley game.
• To facilitate the partnership of the schools
  institutions with the suburban Volleyball
  Federation Committees and with the Volleyball
  Clubs.

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THE INITIATIVES

• The projects consist of several initiatives that
  will be designed to target the goals of the
  project.
• Those initiatives will be modulated and adapted
  to the different needs of the teachers and the
  different single schools programmes and
  realities.
• Minivolley Courses
• Minivolley Tournaments
• Clinics for Teachers
• Provincial Tournament for schools

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• The minivolley courses
• Those activities represents the most important
  part of the project and the aim is to teach to
  the children properly and in short time the game
  of minivolley.
• The self-government system of the schools will
  aloud them to make the project in different ways
  
• The courses can be managed from the schools
  teachers by themselves or together with the
  partnership of the Volleyball Clubs existing in
  the area. It will be important to clarify how
  long will last the course, the methods used and
  the tools and all this aspect will be part of a
  Technical Guide.

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• The minivolley tournaments
• This is the game and fun part for the students.
• They will be played first at single class level
  than with other classes of the same school.
• After that there will be a tournament between
  different schools of the same area with the
  partnership of the Volleyball Clubs of the area.
• A tournament of the provincial area will be
  organized from The Provincial Volleyball
  Federation Committee.

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• The project provides to the schools the following
  teaching material
• Courts and balls
• Teaching manual
• Videos Dvd promotional and coaching manual
  VIDEOS

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• Regarding the different age and skills
  capabilities of the students there will be
  different aspect of the tournament that the
  teachers will decide to use evaluating the class
  needs and their starting level
• The aspects to evaluate in a tournaments will
  be
• Tournament formula
• Size and weight of the minivolley balls
• High of the net
• Size of the court
• Duration of each match

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The Teachers Clinics

• The teachers will learn from the clinics the
  teaching method of the game and how to use the
  project.
• The clinics can be organised by the Provincial
  Volleyball Federation Committee and targeted to
  the primary schools of the Provincial area or
  they can be organised by the Volleyball Clubs in
  direct partnership with the schools.
• During the clinics the teachers will be explained
  the method of teaching minivolley and will be
  explained how to use the teaching technical guide
  and the video Dvd .
• The Provincial Clinics for the teachers will
  start right before of the beginning of the
  courses at school and the teachers will be
  followed by during the school year from the
  Volleyball Federation Provincial School Expert.

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RECEIVERS

• The Project is addressed to the Primary Schools
  and Inclusive Institutes of the whole
  country.
• Those are the numbers of the project
• (datas from Ministry of Public Education)
• 6.149 Schools and Institutes
• 16.145 Starting points
• 137.024 Classes
• 247.134 Teachers
• 2.524.508 Students
• 10.000.000 Family members

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THE PARTNERS

• Considering the goals of the project, the size of
  the initiatives and the large number of
  participants the project is carried out with the
  support of great partners that are
• Italian Ministry of Public Education
• Italian National Olympic Committee
• National Associations of Local Institution
  (Municipalities)
• The sponsor of the Italian Volleyball Federation
  for this project is FERRERO company with the
  KINDER brand.

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THE COMUNICATION

• The project is promoted and spread out with the
  following initiatives
• National Press conference to present the project
  to the media.
• Provincial Press conference to present the
  project to the media.
• Project Brochure produced by the Italian
  Volleyball Federation that contains a summary of
  all the aspects of the project. It is sent to
  all the schools interested in the project.
• Posters will be promote any event connected with
  the project
• Clinics for the teachers beside to teach the
  method of learning they promote the project all
  over the nation.
• All the Media will receive during the project
  up-dates of events and relevant goals achieved
  in the project.
• The communication and promotion of the project
  will be guarantee by the suburban structures of
  the Italian Volleyball Federation and of the
  Ministry of Public Education.

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EQUIPMENTS

• Sport Equipments for the Game
• Kit that includes 3 courts and balls of 3
  different sizes
• (gr. 70- gr.140 gr. 210)
• Teaching Manuals
• Teaching Video Promotional Video (dvd)
• Teaching Handbook

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MONITORING THE PROJECT

• The project includes a monitoring system to
  evaluate the number of participants and the level
  of satisfaction .
• It will be carried out throughout questionnaires
  addressed to students, officials, teachers and
  families and will give the feedback during the
  project at the and of it.

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Volleyball from 7 to 12 Clubs and schools, net
and balls ..
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• 1, 2 , 3 Volley !!!
• Project for the Middle School
• School Year 2006- 2007

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1, 2 , 3 ..Volley !!!

• This project is designed for the first class of
  the first cycle of the middle schools.
• The II and III classes will take part at another
  tournament organised by the Students Youth games
  Organization.
• A Volleyball Court divided in 3 small courts of
  minivolley is used.
• The minivolley courts are 4,5 metres for 9 metres
  and there will be played class tournaments and
  tournaments between different schools.
• This tournament is a part of a much wider
  project from the title "Grow with Volleyball"
  which the Volleyball Federation turns to young
  people proposing a game and activity progression
  conformed to the growth.

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• The wide participation to such initiative, has
  shown how it is important from an educational
  aspect the role of the game as tool to achieve
  the education goals and to enable all the young
  students to approaches the practice of sport and
  of volleyball in particular.
• The easy Formula of the tournament 1,2,3 Volley
  made all the student to be part of the event,
  being involved at different time with specific
  duties as player and as referees .
• The tournament has different levels class
  tournament, school tournament, between two or
  more schools and final Event with all the schools
  managed bye the Volleyball Federation Provincial
  Committee .
• The success of the project came also from the
  contribution of a great Sponsor that supplied the
  schools with 5000 kit in 3 school years with the
  Kinder brand.
• Those Kit included a ball bag with a volleyball
  net 20 meters long, 3 minivolley balls, 3
  whistles and 10 uniforms of two different
  colours. Each class had his own kit.

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Receivers of the project

• 2.347 1 grade of middle schools
• 81.652 classes
• 1.704.479 students
• The percentage of volleyball played in school has
  been of 70 and makes volleyball the first team
  sport played at school with an almost 50 of
  participation from boys and girls.

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VOLLEY SCHOOL at the high school
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• This Project is in 2007 at the 14th editions and
  it is promoted by the Lazio Region Volleyball
  Federation Committee in partnership with the
  Ministry of Education
• It is a tournament that last four months and it
  is played between the second Cycle of the
  Secondary schools of the Province of Rome .
• The goal of the project is to give an opportunity
  to each school to play in a volleyball
  tournament. The Volleyball Federation Regional
  Committee provides the full organization together
  with partnerships and sponsor.
• There are 4 different categories
• Boys Open - Boys junior - Girls Open - Girls
  Junior

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• In this 14 years of this project the FIPAV Lazio
  Regional Committee has established strong
  relation with the Minister of Public Education
  that approves and sponsors the Project.
• Private companies as sponsor are involved
  together with local and national newspapers and
  tv to make this tournament the biggest volleyball
  school event in Italy for the number of
  participants and for the length of the Project.
• Since 1994 The VOLLEY AT SCHOOL OF FIPAV LAZIO
  had
• Teams 2.500
• Students-players 34.500
• Matches 210.000
• Newspaper editorials 25.000
• Tv and radio reportages 220

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• All the schools are also challenging each other
  in three special projects related with the
  volleyball tournament
• Write your story on the Volley at School
  tournament
• The best Strip Cartoon on the Volley at School
  tournament
• Click and Volley the best picture on the Volley
  at School tournament.
• A special jury made of professional journalist
  and photographer each year select the best
  projects and prices the schools and the winners.

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From the Volleyball Clubs to the primary school

• In Italy most of the Volleyball Clubs affiliate
  to the Italian Volleyball Federations play in the
  public school gyms when the school is over.
• To increase the number of participants in the
  volleyball sport the Clubs presents a project to
  the Primary school to introduce minivolley during
  the school schedule.
• Each class will have for an hour per week a coach
  expert in minivolley that will work with the
  childrens together with the class teacher.
• Every schools has the opportunity to take part at
  this project and the Club that promotes the
  activity in this way will have many childrens
  also in the Club activities after the school
  hours.
• This is one of the most efficient actions to
  determinate the increase the number of volleyball
  players for the Volleyball Clubs.

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Free FIPAV membership for childrens starting
from 5 years of age

• This is another action of the Fipav to enter in
  the schools promoting the volleyball game.
• The Italian Volleyball Federation starting in
  the school year 2006-2007 offers to all the
  students of the primary schools the possibility
  to become member athlete of the Federation
  without any cost for the schools and for the
  students.
• In this sport season 2006-2007 we had 60.000 NEW
  members athletes from 6 to 9 years and this
  represent the 25 of the total of members of our
  federation.
• The schools can registers their student on line
  at the Federation web site. This opportunity is
  extended also to the childrens that are playing
  in Volleyball Clubs affiliated to Fipav.
• The Federation organise tournaments and
  activities to promote the sport and as members of
  Fipav the childrens will also have the
  insurance coverage included.

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The Italian Volleyball FederationPromotion and
developing Department at School

• Mr. Paolo Pasqualoni
• FIPAV - BOA Member Program Executive Director
• Mr. Paolo Pedata Program Coordinator
• Mr. Paolo Ligas  Development Program Director
• Mr. Carmelo Pittera   Consultant of the Program
• Mrs Carla Rossi Program secretary

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The Italian Volleyball FederationPresented

• ITALIAN VOLLEYBALL
• ROUNDTRIP TO SCHOOL

Presenter Mr. Francesco Castiglione Italian
Volleyball Federation
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Arrivederci !!