Retired Navy Captain Lamartine DaCosta, PhD (University Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) CREATING SYNERGY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT: FROM OLD TO NEW CISM ACADEMY

CREATING SYNERGY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT: FROM OLD TO NEW CISM ACADEMY

RETIRED NAVY CAPTAIN LAMARTINE DACOSTA, PHD

University Gama Filho – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The original CISM Academy (ACISM) during late 1960s and early 1970s has made efforts to develop scientific-based sport training in Latin America. In Brazil, ACISM and local Armed Forces established a successful partnership providing technical brochures and refreshing courses having civilian and military target groups working together despite different sport specialization backgrounds. Thus, sport coaches and medical doctors participated in ACISM activities in Rio de Janeiro, main sport studies center in the country at that time, in addition to opportunities of international technical exchanges in Europe. Sport research started in Army P.E. School of Rio de Janeiro during the 1930s but at the 1970s stage became evident the need of decentralization to other areas nationwide.  Again a special ACISM event in 1972 brought civilian sports medical doctors and coaches together in a intensive seminar aiming to consolidate sport physiology in different areas of the country in terms of knowledge production. As a result three new and non military laboratories were organized in Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo and Minas Gerais early on ACISM promotion, giving birth to a model with noticeable impacts in new initiatives of sport sciences many years ahead. Additionally to other influences besides ACISM, the number of sports sciences laboratories in Brazil had increased to nearly 200 units of different sizes up to 2005. So far, this contribution to the re-birth of CISM Academy aims to review old roles played by this institution, framing them in the context of synergy between science and management, one of the explanation of the successful intervention of Brazil’s case which might represent similar occurrences in other countries. The methodology is a historical analysis made by the Author of this study who was a member of ACISM and speaker during the 1972 event, followed by an analysis of the presupposed synergy by means of Knowledge Management (KM) theoretical approaches. In practical terms, the latter analytical interpretation has a support of data collected by the Author as the chief organizer of the “Atlas of Sport in Brazil’, an ongoing project beginning in 2003 (www.atlassportbrasil.org.br – English version). This work in progress of KM includes equally civil and military facts finding in a time line frame, making possible observations and projections of the synergic approach. Conclusively the relationships between science and management and the interplay between military and civilian scientific development are discussed.