The EuroHockey Institute – in conjunction with the FIH Academy – held its annual Workforce Convention in Brussels with 30 educators coming together for an inspiring session.
The convention is tasked with aligning how each person will work to train, learn, develop, connect and inspire people in their respective areas, reconstructing how to support more people and more hockey coaching frameworks at a grassroots level.
It is a key event in setting out the stall for the EuroHockey Institute’s key programmes.
As such, the EuroHockey Coaching Committee – with the FIH Academy – has changed the delivery of this pillar of the Institute and this was laid out for the attendees.
The Top Coaches Programme (TCP) and Coaches For Europe (C4E) Prorgramme will now take place over 12 months rather than 24 and will now have a dedicated workforce for each cohort.
There will be a new national association framework programme for nations who currently have no coaching infrastructure to support their development. This will include the building and rollout of a national coaching framework which will require a dedicated workforce to connect with those nations.
With these changes incoming, EuroHockey brought together its current and new workforce members to speed up these changes.
The subsequent outcomes were to:
- share knowledge of these frameworks
- grow an understanding of the European qualification system to benchmark coaching frameworks;
- learn how the revised TCP and C4E will be delivered; introduce the new national association framework;
- find out where the current workforce can be part of this;
- provide global workforce certification to all in attendance to support the IOC, FIH and EuroHockey’s commitment to safeguarding and governance standards
FIH Academy’s Mike Joyce said of the session: “It was a very productive and valuable opportunity to engage and consult [with the workforce] and, of course, demonstrates the FIH/EuroHockey collaboration.”
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