Miroslav Borovčanin (1984) graduated from the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education of the University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time, he has a license for an advanced individual fitness instructor for recreation and physical preparation of professional athletes from the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education of the University of Belgrade, as well as a certificate for a personal trainer from the American Exercise Council.
He is currently a member and special advisor for youth and sports at the “Global Millennium Development” foundation from New York.
During his career, he worked as a head coach for the physical and mental preparation of athletes, working with age categories that won medals at the European championships countless times during that period. In the role of director and head coach, he excelled in the boxing club Balkan Boxing Promotion (Belgrade, Serbia), where he developed and implemented all training programs (recreational and professional); organized more than 40 prestigious sports events in professional boxing; communicated regularly with sponsors, sports institutions and other important actors in the field of sports; and worked as a coach with champions like Nenad Borovčanin.
He collaborated with the scientific and sports team of the Republic Institute for Sports and Sports Medicine, through projects working on: assessment of professional athletes and teams and implementation of research results, creating short-term and long-term development programs, etc.
In addition, he influenced the improvement and development of a number of new programs (he was the founder of the National Boxing School, which in 2011 included more than 800 children and youth (12-17 years old) from the territory of all major cities in Serbia; he initiated a detailed physical examination for 50 young athletes at the “Magnatrans Camp of Champions”, promoting health and safety, etc.).
He is the author of the Sports Testing Manual (2014), which is a guide with multiple tests and benchmarks for sports assessment necessary to: determine an individual’s current physical condition, identify specific areas for improvement, and assess the subject’s predefined abilities to develop specific skills required for a particular sport.
Since 2014, he has been an active member of the Association Development Center for Youth from Belgrade, initiator and project leader of all projects in the field of sports: “Sports to Tolerance and Dialogue” (2014) and “Tolerance and Friendship Camp” (2015), supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe, as well as “Sports for women – change and be a change” (2016), supported by ERSTE Bank. Since 2017, he has been the coordinator of the Working Group dealing with the role of sport in social development and the fight against negative phenomena in and through sport, as well as a member of the Association’s Board of Directors.