Sports Coaching Europe
The work of the Coach Developer is not complete until coaches can apply the new knowledge and skills consistently in their coaching practice.
What is a Coach Developer?
Coach Developers develop, support and challenge coaches to improve their knowledge and skills to provide positive and effective sport experiences for all participants.
- Coach Developers are more than good coaches, they have a passion for coaching coaches which is different from the motivation to coach athletes.
- Coach Developers can accelerate coaches‘ learning and development; better coaches produce better athletes, better coach developers produce even better coaches
- Coach Developers need to become ‘experts in learning’, not just experts in coaching their sport.
- Coach assessment should positively contribute to coach learning as well as to quality standards of practice.
- Increasingly Coach Developers are extending their role in coach learning provision beyond formal workshops to providing support for coaches on the job
Sport Coaching Europe (formerly the European Coaching Council) is a formally established continental body for Europe of the International Council for Coaching Excellence.
The aim of Sport Coaching Europe is to promote the mission and objectives of ICCE and the development of coaching across Europe by providing clear reference points for education, development, qualification, and employment of coaches. These reference points have been developed with and made available for European countries, international federations, Higher Education, coaches associations and other agencies. Sport Coaching Europe has been producing reports, recommendations, and guidelines on best practice from a European perspective for consideration by member states and international and national sports bodies, organizations, federations, and agencies.
Mission
Sport Coaching Europe works with appropriate agencies to support the:
- Application of the Rio Maior Convention on the Recognition of Coaching Competence and Qualifications to the needs of EU member states, international federations, and the higher education sector
- Development of the profession and of the skills and competences of sport coaches at all levels
- Development of a European-wide view on the coaching profession and the convergence of coaching and coach education, development, and enjoyment
- Identification, promotion, and implementation of best practice across Europe
- Development and promotion of a European Code of Ethics and Conduct for Coaches
- Collation and publication of research data on coaching and coach activity across Europe
- Identifying the needs of organisations employing and deploying coaches
- Identifying and promoting good employment/deployment practice for paid and unpaid (volunteer) coaches
- Collaboration and exchange of practice, work, and staff of the leading national agencies for coaching within member countries
- Provision of an effective lobby and source of expert advice to the European Commission on issues effecting coaching
Sport Coaching Europe (SCE) is a registered company in Malta – registration number C99202. Please click here to view the registration certificate.
SCE operates from, MCAST Institute of Community Services, Main Campus, Triq Kordin, Paola, PLA 9032