Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Conference to launch tools developed to support the development of fit-for-purpose coaching qualifications across Europe
The European Sport Coaching Framework has been developed by Leeds Beckett, the International Council for Coaching Excellence and all other partners of project CoachLearn over the last three years.
The Erasmus+ co-funded CoachLearn initiative has conducted research and development activities around coach education and development systems and qualifications in Europe. The main aim of the project is to enhance coaches learning, employability and mobility in the European Union.
At the closing conference, to be held at Mercure Parkway Hotel in Leeds on 31 May and 1 June, the CoachLearn team will unveil the newly developed European Sport Coaching Framework (ESCF) published by Human Kinetics, and a series of application and development tools that accompany it.
The ESCF is the final published outcome of the project, and has been developed following considerable research reports undertaken by the project partners, and production of best practice guides (available in English, Dutch, German and Spanish). The ESCF was subject to extensive consultation by coaching stakeholders from all over Europe.
CoachLearn Project Manager and Senior Research Fellow in the Carnegie School of Sport, Sergio Lara-Bercial, said: “CoachLearn has been a tremendous collaborative effort between all of those with a stake in coaching across Europe. The publication of the European Sport Coaching Framework marks a turning point in the quest to enhance coaches learning, employability and mobility.”
To book your place at the closing conference, please contact k.livingstone@icce.ws. For copies of the reports published so far, and information on how to obtain copies of the ESCF, please visit the project website at www.coachlearn.eu
For any additional information please contact s.lara-bercial@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
CoachLearn is funded through an Erasmus+ bid (2014 call) under the Strategic Partnerships Action within Key Action 2 – Cooperation and Innovation for Good Practices.
CoachLearn seeks to enhance sport coaches' learning, mobility and employment through the development of a European Sport Coaching Framework and associated research data, implementation and dissemination tools to act as a recognised reference points across the Union for the development of coach education programmes and coaching systems.