About the project
The Road To Olympics (RTO) project aims at providing advanced cognitive and mental training to European high-level athletes and to a number of Ukrainian athletes based on the methodology developed by the International Center Sports Mental Coaching combined with the Neurotracker cognitive training tool. The proven benefits of cognitive training and the unfortunate situation that Ukrainian sports professionals are facing, inspired the International Center and the project partners to collaborate for making this innovative methodology available to those athletes who due to the conflict are facing a worsening in their performance. At the same time, cognitive training will be made available not oly for Ukrainian athletes but also for all those high-level atheletes and coaches from all Europe who feel the need to boost their cognitive skills in their pre-Olympic preparation.
Athletes and coaches will be hosted by the project partners’ facilities on the occasion of the two training weeks where they will be involved – first in Spain, then in Greece – in training sessions. The project outcomes will be scientifically evaluated. Lastly, a collection of guidelines on cognitive and mental training will be elaborated to give a Europe-wide resonance to the importance of cognitive and mental training. The involvement of Ukrainian athletes and coaches will be ensured by the presence within the project Consortium of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. In a spirit of inclusion and aggregation, the project’s scope is to extend this methodology to all high-level sports professionals in Europe, in preparation to the Olympics or other matches.