News

Project PEAK Symposium: The Future of Coaching – 14 June 2019, Limerick, Ireland

Project PEAK Symposium: The Future of Coaching – 14 June 2019, Limerick, Ireland

PEAK is a new international project aiming to develop coaching policy recommendations for use by sport federations, coaching bodies and governments. Fundnded by the European Union ERASMUS+ programme, PEAK project brings together a unique consortium of expert partners including the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE), German Sport University, European Elite Athletes Association, Finnish Olympic Committee, Sport Ireland Coaching, Swiss Federal Institute of Sport...

read more
Registration for the 12th ICCE Global Coach Conference is now open!

Registration for the 12th ICCE Global Coach Conference is now open!

We are delighted to announce that registration for the 12th ICCE Global Coach Conference 2019 and ICCE Research Fair is now open! You can book your place at the early bird rate until 31st August. Every two years the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) Global Coach Conference brings together coaches, coach educators, researchers, sport scientists, technical directors and sport administrators to address issues in coaching, to learn about new coaching research, and to share...

read more

The 3rd iCoachKids International Conference Breaks All Records in Ireland

The iCoachKids takes a bow at the 3rd International Conference in Limerick (Ireland) After a highly successful 2nd Conference in 2018 in Leeds (UK), Sport Ireland took on the challenge of going bigger and better for the 3rd instalment of this prestigious conference. And truth be told, it did not disappoint! This year’s theme was Child-Centred Coaching, and speakers and coaches had an opportunity to discuss at length what this holistic approach is all about and how to bring it to life...

read more

UEFA signs up to the iCoachKids Pledge at their Grassroots Conference 2019

Dr Sergio Lara-Bercial and Kris Van Der Haegen with UEFA Head of Education Services Frank Ludolph UEFA hosted their 12th Grassroots Conference in Belarus. Over 200 grassroots and coach education managers from 55 countries gathered in Minsk to discuss the key issues facing the development of the game across Europe. Dr Sergio Lara-Bercial, project director for the Erasmus+ co-funded project and global movement iCoachKids, travelled to the conference at the request of UEFA’s Head of Football...

read more
Coach Sport Integrity (CSI) – implementation of course to coaches in Hungary

Coach Sport Integrity (CSI) – implementation of course to coaches in Hungary

Hungarian Coaching Association (HCA) in cooperation with the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) embedded and implemented the short version course of the CSI project during HCA’s regular coach development program in two occasions. On 21st May the course topic was for coaches active in school sports. The law which obliges schools to everyday physical education is posed as a major challenge for schools. It is a common practice that some physical education classes are held...

read more
Call for Proposals for Hosting of the ICCE Global Coach Conference 2021

Call for Proposals for Hosting of the ICCE Global Coach Conference 2021

The International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) is looking for an institutional partner to host the 13th Global Coach Conference in 2021. Formal proposals to host the conference must be submitted to the ICCE Office (General Secretary Dr. Ladislav Petrovic at l.petrovic@icce.ws). The conference must be organised or supported by the ICCE National A member (where available) and (at least one of) the organising institution(s) must be an ICCE member.More information can be...

read more
Project MEW meets in Riga – May 2019

Project MEW meets in Riga – May 2019

The Movement Environment Wellbeing (MEW) Erasmus+ funded project met from 20-22 May in Riga to discuss tasks completed during 2018 and 2019 by all of the organisations involved. The main outputs of the project were reviewed - Our Task: multiplier sports events which have taken place all over Europe during the second half of 2018; and My Task: the recruitment of volunteers who participated in a programme of physical activity and were monitored during the process.   A Model of Action...

read more
Advanced workshop for Trainers of Coach Developers/Leaders of Coach Education Systems – Ireland, May 2019

Advanced workshop for Trainers of Coach Developers/Leaders of Coach Education Systems – Ireland, May 2019

ICCE Master Trainers Hayley Harrison and Penny Crisfield designed and delivered a workshop for trainers of Coach Developers/Leaders of Coach Education Systems, which was run between May 9th & 12th 2019 at the home of Sport Ireland Coaching – the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Applications were received from people based in eight countries across three continents.  In the end 13 people were accepted onto the workshop, three of which were former attendees of the NCDA...

read more
First ParaCoach Multiplier Event takes place in Warsaw

First ParaCoach Multiplier Event takes place in Warsaw

The Institute of Sport Poland (ISP), hosted the first Para Coach multiplier event in Warsaw. Coaches, coach developers and academics across the European Union met to share knowledge and experiences about working across the Paralympic and disability sport context. Tabo Huntley (Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University) project director for Para coach started the event by introducing the Erasmus Plus funded Para Coach project. This was followed by presentations based on data generated...

read more
Institute of Sport National Research Institute Poland and the ICCE Collaborate

Institute of Sport National Research Institute Poland and the ICCE Collaborate

John Bales, President of the ICCE recently met with Dr. Urszula Wlodarczyk, Director of Institute of Sport, National Research Institute in Poland, during the International Para Sport Conference in Warsaw. The ICCE and IoS have been working together in several Global and EU activities and recently cooperate in Coach developer, ParaCoach and CoachForce projects.

read more