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YOU'RE INVITED! As a valued member of the ICCE's global sports coaching community, we are pleased to invite you to attend the ICCE Global Coaches House 2018.The ICCE is partnering with Australian Institute of Sport, Griffith University and the Commonwealth Games Federation to bring you the 2018 Global Coaches House at the Commonwealth Games. It will provide a rich environment for sport coaches globally to network and learn, with a strong focus on improving your personal performance...

Winter is Coming! Keep warm with a great read by the fireplace! The iCK Team have created a Practical Summary of the comprehensive Coaching Children Literature Review and The iCK Pledge to provide clear and pragmatic advice to coaches on the ground.  We look forward to hearing your views and experiences using the iCK resources on @iCoachKidsEU

The final version of the European Coaching Children Curriculum has just been released. It aims to support the development of a specialist youth sport coaching workforce across the European Union. After a broad stakeholder consultation during the 1st iCoachKids Conference in Budapest in November 2017, the European Coaching Children Curriculum (ECCC) has now been finalised by the project expert group. The ECCC is informed by the European Sport Coaching Framework (Lara-Bercial et al., 2017,...

The International Sport Coaching Framework (ISCF) Version 1.2, developed jointly by the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE), the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) and Leeds Beckett University (LBU), is now available in Portuguese.  This version is the latest in a series of translations into Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. The translations of the Framework enable sport organizations from all corners of the globe to more readily...

Representatives from the world of sport came together to explore the outcomes of the Erasmus Plus Sport project PsyTool on the role of sport psychology to create positive values and further social inclusion at a conference held on 28 November at Chelsea FC, London. Under the theme ‘bridging differences: how sport contributes to cultural integration in Europe', Patrick Gasser from UEFA, Ramunas Linartas from the European Commission and former UK Sports Minister Richard Carbon explored...

On 21 November, at a meeting of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sports Council - which focuses on cultural and sports issues - ministers adopted conclusions on promoting access to culture via digital means, and on the role of coaches in society. Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee, who participated in the meeting of the EU sports ministers for the first time, stressed that sport plays an important role in building cohesive societies.  He said: "Coaches need...

The meeting took place within the framework of the 4th Round of the China-EU High-Level People to People Dialogue which, for the first time, included sport as a key topic. Carnegie School of Sport Senior Research Fellow Sergio Lara-Bercial travelled to Shanghai as part of the EU sport expert delegation invited by EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Mr Tibor Navracsics. China and the EU have a long-standing tradition of cooperation and exchange. More recently, this...

iCoachKids travelled to Hungary for the 3rd Transnational Meeting of this Erasmus+ co-funded project. After the first 12 months of the project, the partnership aimed to finalise the European Coaching Children Curriculum (ECCC) during this meeting in Budapest. The draft ECCC was published a couple of months ago to a very warm reception. The ECCC is meant as a reference point to support organisations and coach developers wishing to assess and re-develop their existing coaching children...

The Hungarian Coaching Association played host to the 1st ever iCoachKids conference in Budapest. A country renown for punching above their weight in the sporting arena, Hungary did not disappoint and the conference over exceeded all expectations. A hundred coaches, coach developers and researchers from 15 different nations descended upon the Danube-bathed city for an action pack day of learning and sharing. The day was opened by Hungarian coaching legend and three-time Olympic champion...

The second workshop of the Participation, Recreation and Inclusion through Martial Arts Education (PRIME) project, took place in Oxford on 9-10 September 2017.  Ladislav Petrovic and Sergio Lara-Bercial represented the ICCE (a partner in this Erasmus+ funded project) and led a session on Coaching Frameworks, with an emphasis on the European Sport Coaching Framework. PRIME seeks to develop a high-quality coaching framework to support the promotion of healthy martial arts participation...