EHF Technical Initiatives
EHF Technical Initiatives
At the 10th Ordinary EHF Congress six Technical Initiatives were presented to the participants of the assembly.
Project Street Handball
The sport of Street Handball is an easy to adapt learning game for the youth. This unique game is played at any place outside without physical impact with a soft ball and is aiming on practice and learning technical skills by having fun.
The game based on social values can be played by everybody without consideration of gender, age or skills. And everyone can play together as the focus is on the experience, not primarily on winning.
The EHF and the DHF will continue working on a joint venture for promoting Street Handball in terms of the production of promotional and teaching material, demo and educational activities, website promotion, ball development and supply and more.
Find more information on www.streethandball.org
EHF Infrastructure Support Programme (EHF – ISP)
Besides other development projects, the EHF Methods Commission also works on cooperation to support National Federations.
Short Term Programmes
Requests of National Federations filed to the EHF – including the topic, aim, and the kind of support needed – are reacted to with equipment or lecturer support. So far 27 cases have been successfully accomplished with different nations.
S.M.A.R.T. Programmes
The “Specific Milestones Accepted Realistic Time-limited” stands for long-term support for developing nations, mostly carried out in 3 year agreements. The support is based on three activities: the nomination of EHF Lecturers, equipment supply and limited financial project-based support. In 2010 two new contracts will be signed with Serbia and England.
Foster Programme
This programme establishes cooperation between developed and developing Handball Federations in Europe under the guidance of the EHF. The support is based on equipment supply, EHF publications, the nomination of EHF Lecturers and limited project-based financial support.
The new EHF “Infrastructure Support Programme”
The programme shall include EHF informal, material or financial support in selected areas, which means an extension of the current and well-adapted EHF development programmes as well as particular reference to infrastructural development based on concrete proposals by the applying EHF Member Federations.
This can also include project based financial support together with institutions on the national level. The national federations of Scotland and Ireland are to be the first to sign new ISP contracts.
Younger Age Category Qualifications
In order to secure high-quality conditions at their tournaments in order to prepare them for a professional level, the EHF will certify that competitions of the Younger Age Categories will have the same high standards as the adult categories.
Women’s Handball Promotion
After the successful Women’s Competitions Conference in Odense, Denmark in June 2010, the EHF has decided to keep the topic of promoting Women’s Handball as a top priority.
New structure of the Rinck Convention
The convention, launched in 2000, has the objective to coordinate and make mutually recognizable both standard guidelines and certificates in the field of coaches’ education of handball in Europe, and still preserve and safeguard the regional and national characteristics of coaches’ education.
The idea of the relaunch of an adapted convention was to provide the flexibility that enables all EHF Member Federations to become a member of the Rinck Convention, in order to foster handball development by setting up an appropriate coaching education structure as well as to facilitate the mobility of coaches within the whole of Europe.
The federation of Luxembourg were the first nation to sign the new convention.
