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1st SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE SPE BALKAN SKI 

Kopaonik Ski Resort, Serbia, 12th−16th March 2017

The desire and willingness to cooperate in the field of winter sports has always been 
present in the Balkan countries. Various forms of cooperation have long been present, 
however, limited at individual or, mostly institutional level. There have always been 
cooperation initiatives that would systemically link the ski experts of the Balkan Penin-
sula, but somehow they have not been realised. After the Slovenian team had returned 
from the Interski Congress in Argentina at the end of 2015, we were able to share our 
impressions and experience we had gained in Argentina with our Serbian colleagues 
in Kopaonik and Bosnian colleagues in Jahorina in the winter of 2016. This was the 
starting point from which the idea to organise a Balkan Ski Congress according to the 
Interski model arose. The main idea was to combine science, practice and education in 
the field of winter sports, to enhance interest in the wider scientific and professional pu-
blic as well as to enrich ski companionship and to involve other professionals who have 
a common interest in the field of winter sports. This led to organising the SPE (Science, 
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Good previous experience was the reason for choosing the Kopaonik Ski Resort as 
the venue of the first Conference, and building on excellent collaboration between all 
the major players in the scientific and technical fields guarantees a successful organisa-
tion of the event. All the associations that unite skiing trainers and teachers in this area 
immediately supported the idea of the Conference. International response was achieved 
with the presentation of the SPE Balkan Ski Conference at the ICSS − International 
Conference of Science and Ski, in December 2016 in St. Christoph, Austria and its 
promotion was fostered through the ECSS European College of Sport Science official 
site. An important added value was the excellency of the guest speakers who came from 
different parts of the world and, of course, the audience; ski enthusiasts, researchers, 
professors, trainers and ski teachers. 

Over 120 participants from 14 countries of the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia) and others (the USA, Great 
Britain, Italy, Czech Republic, Lithuania ...) registered for the Conference and we are 
sure that the first SPE Balkan Ski Conference fulfilled the main goals that the organisers 
set forward − to empower, advocate, develop and promote ski professions, as well as to 
consider scientific and professional bases in theory and practice.

Besides theoretical lectures and workshops, for which our international guest lectu-
rers contributed a special added value, practical work on the slopes was very important 
for the full success of the Conference. Workshops that were led by experts and the 
members of demo teams from the participating countries opened up new insights in 
learning and instructing how to ski. 

To guarantee the success of the conference and promote its vision, it was also im-
portant to develop a network of excellence by bringing together ski experts, i.e. ski 
instructors, coaches, scientists and other ski professionals from the Balkan region, and 
make their integration and networking possible. At the opening session, the participants 
were greeted and welcomed by a ski legend and one of the best skiers of all times in 
the Balkan region, Bojan Križaj, whilst the Bulgarian colleagues presented the Interski 
Pamporovo 2019 meeting. Mingling and setting up potential collaborations between 
ski instructors played an important role during the following days, culminating on We-
dnesday, March 15 with the Balkan Ski Demo Show when all the national demo teams 
from the participating countries and some registered ski schools from the Balkan area 
introduced themselves jointly as well as individually.

The 2nd SPE Balkan Ski Congress will be organized from March 11th to 15th, 2018 
in Jahorina Ski Resort in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the 1984 Winter Olympics 
also took place.

Rado Pišot 



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1. ZNANSTVENA KONFERENCA SPE BALKAN SKI 

Smučarsko središče Kopaonik, Srbija, 12.–16. marec 2017

Med državami Balkana je bila od nekdaj prisotna želja in pripravljenost, da bi so-
delovale na področju zimskih športov. Različne oblike sodelovanja so sicer prisotne 
že dalj časa, vendar so večinoma omejene na osebno ali največ institucionalno raven. 
Ves čas je čutiti tudi prisotnost najrazličnejših iniciativ za sistematično povezovanje 
smučarskih strokovnjakov, ki pa žal v praksi nikoli niso resnično zaživele. Po povratku 
slovenskih udeležencev iz kongresa Interski v Argentini ob koncu leta 2015, smo imeli 
možnost deliti tam pridobljene vtise in izkušnje, najprej s kolegi iz Srbije na Kopaoni-
ku, kasneje pa še s kolegi iz Bosne in Hercegovine na Jahorini. Ti dve srečanji pozimi 
2016 sta bili izhodiščni točki, iz katerih je izšla ideja, da bi po vzoru kongresov Interski 
organizirali tudi Balkanski smučarski kongres. Osnovno vodilo pri tem je bilo, da bi 
združili vidike znanosti, prakse in vzgoje na področju zimskih športov. Iniciatorji ideje 
so s tem želeli povečati zanimanje širše znanstvene in strokovne javnosti, obogatiti 
smučarsko druženje ter v dogajanje pritegniti širši krog strokovnjakov, ki jih druži sku-



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pni interes na področju zimskih športov. Vse to je privedlo do organizacije konference 
SPE (Science, Practice & Education / Znanost, stroka in vzgoja) BALKAN SKI.

Dobre pretekle izkušnje s tem prizoriščem so bile razlog, da je bilo za kraj izvedbe 
prve konference izbrano smučarsko središče Kopaonik. Številna predhodna izvrstna 
sodelovanja med vsemi glavnimi akterji tako na znanstvenih kot tudi strokovnih podro-
čjih pa so zagotavljala organizacijo na najvišjem nivoju. Vse organizacije, ki na izbra-
nem področju kakorkoli združujejo smučarske trenerje in učitelje, so idejo o konferenci 
nemudoma podprle. Za mednarodni odziv so organizatorji poskrbeli s tem, da so SPE 
BALKAN SKI decembra 2016 predstavili na konferenci ICSS (International Conferen-
ce of Science and Ski), ki je potekala v kraju St. Christoph v Avstriji, ter s promocijo 
preko uradne spletne strani ECSS (European College of Sport Science). Pomembno 
dodano vrednost h konferenci so prispevali izvrstni povabljeni predavatelji iz različ-
nih delov sveta ter seveda pričakovani udeleženci, smučarski navdušenci, raziskovalci, 
profesorji, trenerji in učitelji smučanja.

Na konferenco se je prijavilo preko 120 udeležencev iz 14 držav iz Balkana (Bosna 
in Hercegovina, Črna Gora, Hrvaška, Makedonija, Slovenija in Srbija) ter od drugod 
(ZDA, Velika Britanija, Italija, Republika Češka, Litva, …). Prepričani smo, da je prva 
konferenca SPE BALKAN SKI v celoti dosegla cilje, ki so si jih zastavili organizatorji, 
in sicer opolnomočiti, promovirati in razvijati smučarsko stroko ter tako v teoriji kot 
praksi zagotoviti znanstveno in strokovno osnovo.

Poleg teoretičnih predavanj in delavnic, ki so jim posebno dodano vrednost zagoto-
vili mednarodni gostujoči predavatelji, so bile pomemben del konference tudi praktične 
demonstracije na zasneženih pobočjih Kopaonika. Delavnice, ki so jih vodili strokov-
njaki, člani demonstracijskih ekip posameznih držav udeleženk, so ponudile nov vpo-
gled v tehnike učenja smučanja.

Za uspeh konference in doseganje njene vizije je bila pomembna tudi vzpostavitev 
kvalitetne mreže, ki bi povezala strokovnjake iz različnih področij; inštruktorje smu-
čanja, trenerje, znanstvenike in druge, ki se kakorkoli ukvarjajo s smučanjem, iz Bal-
kanskih držav. Na otvoritveni slovesnosti je udeležence konference pozdravil Bojan 
Križaj, smučarska legenda in eden najboljših smučarjev vseh časov iz te regije. Kolegi 
iz Bolgarije pa so predstavili prihodnje srečanje Interski Pamporovo 2019. Druženje 
in vzpostavljanje morebitnih bodočih sodelovanj med učitelji smučanja je bilo vodilo 
dogajanja prihodnjih dni konference. Ta je svoj vrhunec nedvomno doživela v sredo, 
15. marca, ko so se nacionalne demonstracijske skupine držav udeleženk in prijavljenih 
smučarskih šol predstavile v Balkan Ski Demo Show-u tako v skupnem nastopu kot 
tudi individualno.

Naslednja, 2. SPE Balkan Ski konferenca, bo potekala od 11. do 15. marca 2018 v 
smučarskem središču Jahorina v Bosni in Hercegovini, prizorišču zimskih olimpijskih 
iger leta 1984.

Rado Pišot


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