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2016-2017 NSSU-ICCE Coach Developer Programme – now open for applications.
The NCDA Coach Developer programme represents a unique professional development opportunity for coach developers from around the world working in national coaching organisations, national and international sport federations and universities. A partnership between Nippon Sport Science University and the ICCE, the programme offers a blended learning experience, including two one-week residentials at NSSU in Tokyo, alongside e-learning and on-line support to aid participants’ application of...
SCORE Mentoring Programme gets off to a great start
The first weekend of the SCORE programme took place for mentors in Larnaca Cyprus on 30th-31st January 2016. 22 mentors attended from the UK, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Lithunania and Sweden, with the objective of starting a mentoring process within the sport federations and to raise equality in the coaching workforce. The day commenced with an address from the Chairwoman of Cyprus Sport Organisation, Clea Hadjustestephanou. The training was facilitated by Satu Kaski, PhD...
Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia recruiting National Director of Coaching
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia are currently seeking to employ a National Director of Coaching (NDC). This individual will be responsible for producing world class sport coaches in Malaysia. The NDC will report to the High Performance Sports Director (HPSD) and be responsible for the performance management and learning and development system for coaching in Malaysia. This will cover coaching from grass roots to elite level. They will oversee work with two...
Saudi Arabic Olympics Committee – vacant position
The Saudi Arabic Olympics Committee (SAOC) is recruiting a Head of Performance Coach Development. The role of the Head of Performance Coach Development is to implement and lead a performance coach development programme that supports existing and potential performance coaches in Saudi Arabia. The successful candidate will create a succession of expert Saudi coaches, on a relentless journey of self-improvement, in order to support successive generations of world class,...
Tackling Doping in Sport 2016 – conference
World Sports Law Report is proud to announce the Tackling Doping in Sport 2016 summit, which is set to take place on 9-10 March in London. Every year, this exciting summit brings together national and international sports federations, NADOs, NGBs, athletes and lawyers from over 70 different countries around the globe. Tackling Doping in Sport 2016 presents an opportunity to gain valuable insights from the experts on how we can collectively protect the right to participate in clean sport. In...
Women’s Sports Leadership Academy 2016
The Anita White Foundation and Females Achieving Brilliance, with the support of the University of Chichester, have hosted two successful Women’s Sport Leadership Academy's (WSLA) to date. WSLA is aimed at women in middle management aspiring to move up to become senior managers/directors. In 2014, 36 women from fourteen countries on every continent gathered for the one-week residential programme of leadership development at the University. In June this year, 40 women from eighteen countries on...
United States National Coaching Conference 2016
The United States Coaching Coalition (USOC, NCAA, NFHS, SHAPE America and NSCA) is pleased to announce the call for programs for the 2016 National Coaching Conference from June 21-23 in Seattle, Washington. The National Coaching Conference brings together coaches, coach developers and sport science researchers for the enrichment of coaching and sport. The site host this year will be at the Center for Leadership in Athletics, University of Washington, and all programming will take place...
Serial Winners – why some coaches get to the top… and stay there
What does it take to win repeatedly at the highest level of Olympic and professional sport? This has been the concern of The Serial Winning Coach, a study commissioned by the ICCE and supported by world-leading sport organisations such as UK Sport, the Australian Sport Commission, INSEP (France) and Trainerakademie Köln (Germany). They were all looking for new and improved ways to recruit and develop Olympic coaches. Sergio Lara-Bercial, Leeds Beckett’s Senior Research Fellow and...
SCORE project team meets in London
The SCORE Project team met on Wednesday 30th September 2015 at the Sport and Recreation Alliance offices in London. The ICCE is a partner of the Project, and was represented by Pauline Harrison. "Strengthening Coaching with the Objective to Raise Equality" – SCORE is a European project supported by the Erasmus+ Sport Programme and led by the European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO). SCORE brings together 13 partner organisations and promotes gender equality in coaching, and...
ICCE and Leeds Beckett support the Chinese Olympic Committee’s ‘Top Hundred Outstanding Young Professional and Technical Personnel Training Programme’
Professor John Lyle and Senior Research Fellow Sergio Lara-Bercial delivered a two-hour seminar as part of the Chinese Olympic Committee’s ‘Top Hundred Outstanding Young Professional and Technical Personnel Training Programme’ run in conjunction with the University of Leeds. The programme aims to provide early career coaches and technical personnel with enrichment experiences which will help them advance their careers. John and Sergio offered an overview of the coaching programmes, research...