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One platform for an athlete's whole career, not just their sport

Education, employment, injuries and expert support, connected to every registered athlete - built with Barrek Group for the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb

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Year

2022

Duration

4-phase delivery

Industry

Sport / Public Sector / EdTech / HealthTech

One platform for an athlete's whole career, not just their sport
Starting position

Starting position

Starting position

  • Shared record connecting an athlete's sport, education and employment

    Each tracked separately, if at all, with no shared athlete profile

    None
  • Structured way to request expert or medical support

    No formal channel for a registered athlete to reach partner institutions

    None
  • Injury history tied to an athlete's profile

    Injury records lived with individual clubs or medical providers

    Not centrally tracked
  • Coordination across regional centers, coaches and admins

    No shared system connecting regional centers under one national programme

    Manual, office-based

Market size

Athletes registered nationally across sport categories, from amateur to Olympic-level

Registered athletes reachable through the platform

Scope: National - Faculty of Kinesiology programme, coordinated through regional centersSource: Programme registration structure, pre-launch

Approx. budget

NDA

50,000 – 199,999 €

Budget breakdown

Athlete profile: sport, education, employment, injuries35%
Partner/expert service directory & help-request workflow25%
Multi-role hierarchy: coach, partner, admin, lead, super-admin25%
GDPR-compliant onboarding & production rollout15%

Budget bucket per Clutch.co project cost category. Exact figures under NDA.

4-phase delivery

4-phase delivery

  1. 1

    Phase 1

    Discovery and data model across athletes, institutions and services

  2. 2

    Phase 2

    Athlete profile: sport, education, employment, injuries

  3. 3

    Phase 3

    Partner/expert directory and help-request workflow

  4. 4

    Phase 4

    Regional center, coach and admin hierarchy, national rollout

The Challenge

An athlete's career lived in disconnected pieces

Athletes in Croatia's national sport programme had their sporting data, education, employment and injury history spread across clubs, schools, medical providers and paper forms, with no single institution able to see the whole picture or connect them to the right support.

No shared profile connecting an athlete's sport, education, employment and injury history

No structured way for athletes to request expert or medical support from partner institutions

Regional centers, coaches and administrators had no shared system to coordinate a national programme

Onboarding needed to run at national scale while staying GDPR-compliant from day one

Our Solution

One athlete profile, one path to expert support

We built a multi-role platform where every athlete registers once - sport, training and competition load, education, employment and injury history - and can request help directly from a catalog of partner institutions and experts, all coordinated through a national hierarchy of regional centers, coaches and administrators.

Full athlete profile

Sport classification (including Olympic status), weekly training and competition load, education, employment and injury history in one record.

Partner and expert service directory

Athletes browse partner institutions and their service catalog, and submit help requests directly to the right provider.

Coach oversight

Coaches manage their own athletes' profiles and progress from a dedicated dashboard.

Regional center hierarchy

Centers, admins, leads and a super-admin layer coordinate the programme nationally without collapsing into one flat user list.

GDPR-first onboarding

Registration and consent flows built to run at national scale from day one.

What changed

How athlete support was reshaped

Sport, education, employment and health support moved from disconnected paper trails into one profile per athlete, coordinated nationally.

Athlete profile

Before

Scattered across clubs, schools and medical providers

After

One shared profile per athlete

Sport, education, employment and injuries are visible in one place.

Requesting expert support

Before

No structured channel

After

Direct help requests to partner institutions

Athletes reach the right expert without going through informal channels.

Programme coordination

Before

Manual, office-based, per region

After

Shared hierarchy: centers, coaches, admins, leads

A national programme runs on one connected structure.

Registration and consent

Before

Ad hoc

After

GDPR-compliant onboarding by design

Every registered athlete's data is collected under a consistent, compliant flow.

Investment → Programme ReachNDA

National programme coordination without a bigger back office

Ratio

One platform, national reach

a single system coordinates athletes, coaches, partners and centers across the country

Incremental revenue

Administrative time reclaimed across regional centers

estimated staff time saved by replacing office-based coordination with one shared system

Investment

50,000 – 199,999 €

Payback period

Realised as the programme scaled across regional centers

Method

Comparison of manual, per-region coordination before vs. the connected platform after

Confidence

Medium - based on process comparison, not an audited financial report

This is a public-institution athlete-support programme - impact is measured in coordination reach, not commercial revenue.

The Outcome

A national athlete-support programme running on one platform

The platform is in production, used by athletes, coaches, partner institutions and regional centers under the Faculty of Kinesiology's national programme. Live registration figures belong to the Faculty; the figures below describe what changed structurally.

Athlete data connecting sport, education, employment and injuries

Before

Scattered, no shared record

After

One profile per athlete

Fully connectedSport, education, employment and injury history visible in a single record

In production

Path to request expert or medical support

Before

None

After

Direct requests to partner institutions

New capabilityAthletes submit help requests straight to the right partner

Since launch

Roles coordinating the programme

Before

1 (ad hoc, per office)

After

6 (athlete, coach, partner, admin, lead, super-admin)

Full role hierarchyEvery level of the national programme has a dedicated role and dashboard

Nationwide

Onboarding compliance

Before

Ad hoc

After

GDPR-compliant by design

Compliant from day oneEvery registration runs through a consistent consent and terms flow

Since launch

Stack & Services
Node.js / Express
EJS Server-Side Rendering
JWT Authentication
REST API Integration
GDPR-Compliant Onboarding
Public Sector Delivery
An athlete used to be a file at their club, another file at school, and a phone call away from a doctor. Now it's one profile, and one request gets them to the right expert.

Programme Coordinator

Kineziološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

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