Where do we come from?

Where are we now?

Where do we want to go?
Handball – Europe‘s
Top Indoor
Team Sport
Competition Cycle, Calendar & Format
Game Development, Research & Facilities
Rules, Regulations & Officiating
Event Management
Daily Business
Cooperation with EHF
Handball Vision, Mission & Strategies
Know-How Transfer, Education
& Training on the Job
 EHF Motion No. 4 „Educational Facilities“
8th EHF Ordinary Congress 2006 in Vilamoura/POR

Both European Union Educational Programmes (ENSSEE = European Network of Sports Science,
Education and Employment, AEHESIS = Aligning a European Higher Education Structure In Sport Science,
etc.) and Certification (ECVET = European Credits for Vocational Education and Training) form a new
educational background in Europe.

Our EHF facilities are:

►European Handball Know-how/Experts in the National Federations and Clubs/External Partners

►EHF Coaching/Referee/Delegate Training Courses
►EHF Rinck Convention (16 Member Federations)
►EHF Commission Members/Lecturers
►EHF Workshops/Conventions/Seminars with National Federations, Organising Committees,
Teams, Clubs, Partners
►EHF Programmes for administrators, athletes, business executives and post-graduates
►EHF Development/Foster Project
►EHF Documentations/Publications/Websites

„LET‘S CREATE THE BASIS FOR PROFESSIONALLY MANAGING

EUROPEAN HANDBALL KNOW-HOW !!!“
Since the start of the EHF in 1992 the EHF Technical Commissions as the EHF
technical bodies have worked on/handled all educational matters within the EHF.

EHF Statutory Basis/Responsibilities:

The EHF Competitions Commission (CC)

The Competitions Commission is the EHF's technical body for
competitions.
It is subordinate to the Executive Committee, which may assign to it
areas of authority and responsibility in addition to those laid down in
EHF statutes and regulations. The CC consists of a chairman and four
individually elected members with responsibility for:
Chairman: Jan Tuik/NED
1. Men's competitions Jesus Guerrero/ESP
2. Women's competitions Helga Magnusdottir/ISL
3. Refereeing Sandor Andorka/HUN
4. Club competitions Leoplod Kalin/SLO
5. Men‘s Club Committee Joan Marin/ESP
6. Women‘s Club Committee Gunnar Prokop/AUT
7. National Team Committee Morten Stig Christensen/DEN
 The EHF Methods Commission (MC)
The Methods Commission is the EHF's technical body for methodical
matters.
It is subordinate to the Executive Committee, which may assign to it
areas of authority and responsibility in addition to those laid down in
EHF statutes and regulations. The MC consists of a chairman and four
individually elected members with responsibility for:

Chairman: Frantisek Taborsky/CZE

1. Methods and coaching Bogdan Macovei/ROU
2. Education and training Wolfgang Pollany/AUT
3. Youth, school sports and
non-competitive sports Jerzey Elias/POL
4. Development Allan Lund/DEN
 The EHF Beach Handball Commission (BC) –
as of September 2008
The 8th EHF Extraordinary Congress 2007 in “Rome/ITA voted in
favour of introducing a Beach Handball Commission as an additional
EHF Technical Commisssion to deal solely with the sport of Beach
Handball. This will consist of a chairman and four members to be
elected at the 9th EHF Ordinary Congress 2008 in Vienna/AUT, with
the following tasks:

Chairman: Laszlo Sinka/HUN

1. Events and Competition Marco Trespidi/ITA
2. Officiating Ole Jorstad/NOR
3. Game Design and Coaching Koray Akgüloglu/TUR
4. Development and Promotion George Bebetsos/GRE
 EHF Lecturers
AUT Helmut König NED Ton van Linder

CYP Panos Antoniou NOR Marit Breivik

CRO Tom Lukic NOR Thorir Hergeirsson

CZE Martin Tuma NOR Björn Hogsnes

DEN Henrik La Cour Laursen NOR Sven-Olav Oie

ESP Juan de Dios Roman Seco POR Carlos Garcia

ESP Pablo Permuy SLO Marta Bon
FIN Mona Förström SLO Marko Sibila
FRA Bernard Gallet SRB Sasa Kuburovic
GER Klaus Feldmann SRB Branislav Pokrajac
GER Hans Thomas SUI Felix Rätz

HUN Peter Kovacs SWE Mats Olsson

HUN Tamas Neukum SWE Peter Hansson

HUN Zoltan Marczinka SWE Peter Olsson

NED Bert Bouwer TUR Yasar Sevim
 EHF CAN – The Idea

EHF CAN
EHF Competence
Academy & Network

Competence Network Academy Service

EHF Member EHF Congress

EHF Member Federations Competence/Task/
CAN Federations
EHF Executive Committee Management Training, Curricula, Lecturer Staff,
Services Experts EHF Finance Delegation Certification, Documentation, Research,
(Budgeting) Courses,e-Learning, Teaching Aids,ECTS points
EHF Secretary General
EHF Commissions relating to a „5 Pillar System“
Know-how/
(Competitions/CC, Methods/MC, Beach
Competence Handball/BC, EHF Member Federations
Transfer Network Court of Arbitration COA) EHF Officiators
EHF Technical Delegation EHF Partners
(CC, MC and BC Chairmen) EHF Office Staff
Partners & External Experts EHF Office Handball/Sport Public
Handball Public & Media (Business Groups) Media&Public
EHF Marketing
 EHF CAN - Preamble

• The European Handball Federation (EHF) is the governing body of handball in

Europe! Its 50 member federations represent and stand for 50 different kinds of
national and international handball know-how and competence. It goes without
saying that the unique national handball schools/philosophies shall preserve
and by no means be replaced by a centralized, uniform and directive handball
education!

• Handball research, know-how exchange and competence transfer in Europe

shall be fostered as an EHF service for the EHF member federations by making
use of national and international handball experts as well as external lecturers
from sport science, medicine, other sports, economy (marketing, equipment
suppliers), media (press, TV, Internet) and other team sports.
 EHF CAN – The Objectives
The EHF CAN shall be regarded as an
- educational service centre for EHF Member Federations with subsidies and scholarships granted
-educational service centre for EHF Officials’/Office management training on the job

The EHF CAN shall

- develop and deliver sport specific educational and training programmes
- ensure that coaches, officials, athletes and administrators from all over Europe have access to the
highest quality education relating to “handball know-how“ by offering competences in e-learning, blended
learning, interdisciplinary courses of various duration, summer schools or mainstream 2-4 semester courses

The EHF CAN shall

- set-up business executive educational programmes for further educating and training sporting
administrators, resort managers and event executives in the handball event management business, e.g. in
event-related courses

The EHF CAN shall

- build-up a documentation centre including the production of modern teaching aids and media as well
as cooperation agreements with research & developing partners, suppliers and testifying institutions

Activity Areas:
Technical/Officiating/Coaching Know-how
Management/Event/Marketing/Legal Know-how
Scientific & Research/Game Development/Promotional Know-how
 EHF CAN – The Objectives
Target Groups:
EHF Member Federations
EHF Officiators
EHF Partners
EHF Office Staff
Handball/Sport Public

Competence Modules:
Handball official-related education (referee/delegate courses as already carried-out)
Handball coach-related education (Rinck Convention/ENSSEE, European coaching clinics as already
carried-out)
Event management and training on the job (office staff and key personnel)
Sport science-related education, studies and research (universities, EHF partners)
Athlete-related education
Sport management training (post graduate education, ECTS=Education Credit Transfer System points)

2008 – 2010 EHF Lecturers

Currently 30 EHF Lecturers from 18 EHF Member Federationare in this function. They cover the areas
Methods&Training, Refereeing and Beach Handball. EHF Commission Members, people in official EHF
function and external experts are not included in the list, but can be nominated as EHF lecturers to
national or EHF courses as well.
 EHF CAN Activity Areas

EHF Executive Committee/

Finance Delegation

EHF Technical Delegation

(CC, MC and BC Chairmen)
EHF Technical Commissions
EHF Lecturers and Mentors

EHF Office Coordination

EHF Member Federations EHF Office Staff Handball/Sport Public

EHF Officiators EHF Partners
RINCK Convention Activities
Coaching Courses Individual Task/Job/Skill Athletes
Referees Suppliers
Medical Courses Education and Further Media
Delegates Marketing Partners
Sport Management Courses Training Other Sport Federations
Key Personnel Development Partners
Lecturer Labour&Sport Law
Research Partners Event Management
Recruitment&Courses
Universities
SG Conferences
Volunteering at EHF
 EHF CAN Activity „Activation“

EHF CAN Activity Activation

(for implementing 2008 – 2012 EHF educational and research
services)

Activation of EHF CAN activity areas/activities

by the EHF Executive Committee only!

1) based on proposals by the EHF Technical Delegation

(EHF CC, MC and BC Chairmen) resulting from their
Commissions/Committees/the Office
2) based on proposals by the EHF Executive Committee themselves
 2008 EHF CAN Activity Masterplan Review
Beach Handball:

• 2008 Beach HB Education course refs,del, coaches dated 3-6 July 08 in Misano Adriatico/ITA

Coaches:

• 2008 EHF Rinck Convention Seminar dated 14-15 June 08 in Vienna/AUT

• 2008 EHF Top Coaches‘ Seminar dated 11-14 December 08 in Skopje/MKD

Referees:

• 3rd EHF Referee Candidates’ Course dated 25-31 March 08 in Lagoa - Algarve/ POR
• 4th EHF Referee Candidates’ Course dated 19-24 May 08 in Lignano/ITA

Delegates:

• 8th EHF Regional DEL Course dated 19-22 March 08 in Innsbruck/ AUT
• 9th EHF Regional DEL Course dated 26-28 March 08 in Vilnius/LTU
• 2008 EHF DEL Course for New Delegates dated 5-7 September 08 in Balatonfüred/HUN
 2008 EHF CAN Activity Masterplan Review
Event Management Activities – OC, LOC, National Federation, Partner and Head of Delegation
Workshops (internal and external):

• Men’s EHF Euro 2008 Officials’ Conference dated 14-16 January 08 in Oslo/NOR
• EHF/adidas Meeting dated 13 March 08 in Vienna/AUT
• EHFCompetitions Conference dated 19 April in Vienna/AUT
• EHF/Gerflor Meeting dated 29 May 08 in Vienna / AUT
• Men‘s 2008 M20 European Championship Officials‘ Conference dated 23-24 July 08 in Bucharest/ROU
• Men‘s 2008 M18 European Championship Officials‘ Conference dated 6-7August in Brno/CZE
• Women‘s EHF Euro 2008 Head of Delegation Seminar dated 1 – 3 October 08 in Skopje/MKD
• Women‘s EHF Euro 2008 Officials‘ Conference dated 31 November – 1sDecember 08 in Skopje/MKD

Studies, Projects & Publications:

• EHF/IMSB Euro 2008 Injury Studies NOR, MKD
• EHF Toolkit “Handball 4 All” including Websolution
• EHF Glossary of Handball Terms and Expressions
• EHF/Swiss Timing Scouting Manual + EHF/Swiss Timing Electronic
• EHF/University of Bochum Cooperation on „Safety in Sports“(EU Project)
• EHF Arena Construction Manual + EHF Euro Set-up Manual
• EHF Working Group Rule Simplifications and Modifications
• EHF Short Rule Version „Handball – the game“ - „A Shortcut to the Rules“ + Language Toolkit
 Toolkit

http://activities.eurohandball.com/hb4all
pdf course leaflets
Thank you for your attention ! Good luck !

YES, WE CAN !!!