- Spain
AccETTD was founded on the 16th September of 1998 and has been registered in the culture register of the Presidial ministry of the federal state government by Estremadura/Spain. This happened with the intention to research, advise, educate and organize events in the ranges leisure time, tourism and sport. As a non-profit recognized society wants AccETTD to mediate vocational and scientific experiences to students and graduates, who are still out of work. These collected experiences and qualifications will facilitate their competitive ability, authority and integration into the job market. The emphasis can be summarized in the vocational advancement of the members, scientific work and management, organizing of sport events and the international co-operation.
The society has constituted his self as an instrument of the support and co-operation for other institutions. It enters into a social, educational, intercultural and ecological obligation. Additionally it represents a pluralistic, cosmopolitan and scientific culture.
It is one of the few centers in Spain, which are striving in the above mentioned ranges to make a knowledge transfer between Europe and Latin America, particularly between Spain and Germany. Between AccETTD and the University of Extremadura are existing two co-operation agreements (practical course places and co-operation frameworks). Likewise there were co-operation agreements between Institutions for experiential orientated learning at the University of Lueneburg and the German Sport University of Cologne signed (practical course places). In the following some examples are specified by realized projects:
- Scientific work (e.g. poster of research results of the German sport science, Cáceres 1999/2000).
- Publications (e.g. experiential orientated learning from international perspective…).
- Scientific management (e.g. I conference and exhibition over research in Sport Science, Cáceres 1999).
- Main points of research are: Sport and Environment; Sport and Europe (concerning sport training, sport preferences, sport motives, sport systems and developments, traditional movement cultures); Media and Sport; Sport for All; Olympic Studies; Intercultural Movement Education; Sport Instructions, Traditional Movement Cultures of Spain and Experiential Orientated Learning.
- Organization of Sport festivals (e.g. III Festival of traditional games and sports of the world – WOMAD music festival 2001 (World of music, arts and dance, Cáceres
- Training (e.g. IV expedition GREDOS: Culture and sport tourism under ecological and intercultural criteria for students of the German Sport University of Cologne in the Spanish central massif, 1999).
- Exchange of publications and information with different institutions, lecturers and student (e.g. “El brillo del triunfo olímpico”).
- International co-operation (e.g. with Institution for experiential orientated learning at the University of Lueneburg, the German Sport University Cologne and Latin American institutions).
- Consultation of different institutions, lecturers and students (e.g. concerning theses (diploma)).
- Participation in sport events (e.g. at the III World Festival of the Traditional Movement Cultures on EXPO 2000 in Hanover in representation of Spain with 17 different games, sports and dances).
Within AccETTD, the cultural and scientific parent company, on the 16th of December 2000 the sport company, mentioned AccETTD Funsport, was created. Since the beginning of the year 2001 it is registered in the sport register of the federal state government of Estremadura/Spain. It concentrates mainly on the promotion of two aims: the occupation graduation of their members and the spreading of the leisure/spreading haven in Spain.
