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The Second Consultation Draft of the European Sport Coaching Framework Has Been Released
The International Council for Coaching Excellence, the European Coaching Council and the rest of the CoachLearn project partners have released the second consultation draft of the European Sport Coaching Framework. CoachLearn is an Eramus+ co-funded project seeking to enhance sport coaches’ learning, mobility and employment through the development of a European Sport Coaching Framework (ESCF). The ESCF will act as a recognised reference point across the EU for the development and...
CoachLearn and iCoachKids presented as Models of Good Practice at EU Symposium
Projects CoachLearn and iCoachKids were presented last week as good-practice case studies at a European Union Symposium held by the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University in the UK. The purpose of the event was to inform universities about the various EU funding streams and to showcase a series of successful projects to encourage more applications from UK universities in the coming rounds. Sergio Lara-Bercial said: This was a great opportunity to learn more about EU funding,...
Kick-off Meeting of the Whistle Project, Romania, February 2017
On 14-15 January 2017 in Bucharest at the first Whistle partner meeting, project-co-ordinator Professor Tsorbatzoudis described the definitions of corruption in sport and the basic objectives of the project, providing an overview of the project work packages and their allocation to the partners. The Greek partner Dr. Barkoukis described the workflow of the project’s activities, the implementation mapping, the project management arrangements and the stated deliverables of the first work...
iCoachKids Presented at PsyTool Partner Meeting in Sweden
Project lead, Senior Research Fellow for Leeds Beckett University, Sergio Lara-Bercial, and Dr Ladislav Petrovic from the Hungarian Coaches Association travelled to the wonderful seaside town of Halmstad in Sweden to present iCoachKids to the partners of PsyTool, a related Erasmus+ co-funded project. PsyTool uses sport psychology principles to protect children against any kind of abuse, violence, cheating or discrimination in youth sport. It aims to do so through the development of a...
The iCoachKids Website Has Lift-Off!
The interactive iCoachKids online platform has gone live. The site contains a vast number of resources and materials to help coaches plan and deliver great sessions and programmes. The main objective of the iCoachKids project is to tackle the lack of existing opportunities for coaches of children to be suitably trained and recognized across Europe. The project will overturn this situation through the development of open and innovative education and training resources and...
PsyTool Online Platform Presented at Halmstad University in Sweden
PsyTool Project partners travelled to wonderful seaside town of Halmstad in Sweden for the third full partner meeting of this Erasmus+ co-funded project in February 2017. PsyTool uses sport psychology principles to protect children against any kind of abuse, violence, cheating or discrimination in youth sport. It aims to do so through the development of a network of Agents of Change: parents, coaches, referees and any other significant adult who will be able to not only identify and act when a...
PhD Scholarship – Sociology of Sport, Sport Development, and/or Physical Education
The Sustainable Sport Development and Well-Being research group at the University of St Mark & St John is seeking applications from interested students for undertaking a funded PhD scholarship in sport, health and/or well-being. Applications are welcome from students interested in undertaking empirically grounded, theoretically driven, industry relevant, and socially impactful research that can inform and enable inclusive policy formations towards the effective incorporation of the range...
Bringing Health Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) into Sport – the SPEACH Project: Sport Physical Education and Coaching in Health
From 6-10 February 2017, around 70 students from six European countries will join a week in which three newly developed HEPA modules will be offered by teachers from seven EU countries. These modules are part of the ‘Sport Physical Education and Coaching for Health (SPEACH) project, a project that is co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (2015-2017). The feedback generated during this pilot will be used to review and validate the HEPA modules. Aim of the HEPA modules and...
Call for Proposals for Hosting of the ICCE Global Coach Conference 2019
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 experiences with the top coaching development experts in the world. GCC is usually combined with a national event of the hosting country.The International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) is...
UNI Europa round table meeting – Frankfurt, December 2016
The ICCE was recently represented by VP Europe Jose Curado and Brian McGuinness at a round table meeting in Frankfurt in December 2016, hosted by UNI Europa, a European umbrella organization for trade unions in the sport sector. This meeting which was organized with UNI Europa's social partner the European Asssociation of Sports Employers (EASE) gathered various stakeholders from the European not-for-profit sport sector (e.g. representatives of sports federations, sports...