Association

Bosnia Herzegowina Ski Instructors Association

Bosnia Herzegowina Ski Instructors Association

Nation ISIA code ba-BHSIA
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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General information

Full name of association Bosnia Herzegowina Ski Instructors Association
Nation ISIA code ba-BHSIA
Updated instructors / Total 82 / 134

Overview

Website http://www.atus.ba
Year founded 2000
Additional information Bosnian snow sports tradition is related with mountain area round Sarajevo and alpine skiing as major sport. After the Winter Olympic Games 1984 in Sarajevo, the skiing becoming an important and organized sport in our country. Based on those facts ski enthusiasts established the Ski Trainers and Instructors Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ATUS in B&H). Ski Trainers and Instructors Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only institution in the country of that kind, which is educating and training alpine skiing and snowboard instructors. ATUS in B&H is a full member of the International Ski Instructors Association (ISIA), the world body for professional ski instructors, and meets all the requirements to train and educate snow sport instructors. Moreover, the Instructor’s program of ATUS is also in full compliance with all of ISIA’s established norms. Key activities of Ski Trainers and Instructors Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina are snow sports instructors and trainer’s education, organizing the lifelong learning seminars for different snow sport related aim groups and snow sports health benefits dissemination. All the activities are organized in cooperation with Sarajevo and Banja Luka Universities – Faculties of Sport and Physical Education. Ski Trainers and Instructors Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina have 590 ski instructor and trainer members in different skill levels. Most of the educators as well as ATUS in B&H exam commission members are PhD and mr sci. in field of Kinesiology.

Qualifications

Discipline Qualification ID Level ISIA level
ALPINE Učitelj Skijanja – rang 3 / Ski Instructor – level 3 313 1
Učitelj Skijanja – rang 2 / Ski Instructor – level 2 312 2
Učitelj Skijanja – rang 1 / Ski Instructor – level 1 311 3