About

Take Care of Your Coach 2.0 (TCYC2.0) is an Erasmus+ Sport project designed to strengthen the mental health and well-being of sports coaches. Coaches are central to athletes’ development and performance, yet they often work under intense pressure with limited structured support. TCYC2.0 responds to this need by providing practical tools, training, and a supportive community, helping coaches build sustainable habits and healthier coaching environments.

Project objectives

Take Care of Your Coach 2.0 (TCYC2.0) is here for the people who hold sport together day after day: coaches, trainers, and club professionals. Coaching can be inspiring, but it can also be demanding, fast, and emotionally loaded. TCYC2.0 was created to make sure coaches don’t have to carry that weight alone.

Through the project, we support coaches with evidence-based, easy-to-use mental health tools that fit real life in sport, not a perfect schedule. We work to raise mental health awareness in clubs and associations, and to strengthen the everyday skills that protect long-term well-being: resilience, recovery, and burnout prevention. Just as importantly, TCYC2.0 connects coaches across countries, building a transnational community where peer support, learning, and good practice can travel further than any one team or federation.

Our approach is holistic and practical. We focus on short techniques you can use in minutes, interactive workshops led by sport psychology experts, and a strong peer-to-peer element through “Coaches for Coaches”, helping coaches share what works within their own networks. Everything is tested in real coaching environments, and we use feedback to keep improving what we deliver.

If you’d like to explore the project, meet the partners, and access the upcoming resources, take a look around our website. There’s more to come, including an updated toolkit and a free online course built with coaches in mind.

Work plan and phases

1) Preparation phase

• Expert input from mental health professionals and sport psychologists.
• Literature review of existing tools and evidence-based practices.
• Needs assessment through interviews with coaches from partner organisations.
• Improvement of the existing Take Care of Your Coach Manual (toolkit, texts, handouts).
• On-site workshops for partner coaches: “Coaches for Coaches” training.

2) Implementation phase

• Delivery of “Coaches for Coaches” workshops for local and regional coaching communities.
• Toolkit testing and structured feedback collection for refinement.
• Development of an online space for sharing resources and peer exchange.
• Collection of coach feedback through anonymous surveys and reflection logs.
• Collection of short coach stories and video testimonials.
• Mental Health Awareness Campaign targeting key stakeholders.
• Publishing the free TCYC2.0 Online Course on a suitable course platform.

3) Monitoring and evaluation phase

• Impact evaluation through surveys, questionnaires, and qualitative feedback.
• Adjusting topics and materials based on results.
• Ongoing knowledge-sharing and expert discussions online.

4) Dissemination phase

• Making the course and toolkit widely accessible online.
• Sharing results and lessons learned through the website, social media, and local media.
• Supporting long-term integration of coach well-being mechanisms in sport organisations.
• Direct outreach to stakeholders including coaches, sport organisations, national bodies, and educational institutions.

Timeline of key activities (2025–2026)

• January 2025: Online Meeting 1 and start of the project.
• March 2025: meetnig 1 in Lisbon (Kick-off, team-building, basic TCYC skills refresh, strategy development).
• April–May 2025: Local development and pilot work with partner coaches (toolkit enhancement and feedback).
• June 2025: Online Meeting 2 for experts, analysis of gathered info and feedback.
• June–October 2025: Programme development and handout design by sport psychology experts.
• October 2025: meeting 2 in Umag (evaluation, planning regional workshops, promotion planning, coach testimonials).
• Oct 2025–May 2026: Regional promotion and delivery of workshops across partner countries.
• January 2026: Online Meeting 3 and interim evaluation.
• March 2026: meeting 3 in Kirchdorf (online course content delegation, dissemination strategy, peer learning activities).
• April–September 2026: Finalising the online course (editing, translating, visual design, recording lectures).
• October 2026: Final meeting 4 in Ljubljana (sharing workshop experiences, dissemination, stakeholder outreach).
• Oct–Dec 2026: Final dissemination and project closure activities online and locally.