THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL COACHING COURSE 2019

ITK Sports for the Disabled in FrenchSenior lecturer and coordinator: Simone ZimmermannInterpreter: Meike Behlau

More than 400 people from around the world streamed our closing ceremony last semester.

This time, the ITK closing ceremony will be broadcast live on our official Facebook page, so feel free to comment, like and share your favorite memories with us!

The livestream will start on Wednesday, 31 July 2019, at 1.30 pm (CET) here.

64 students from 32 countries participated in the 1st International Coaching Course (ITK) in 2019 and will be awarded their ITK certificates on 31 July 2019 in our formal closing ceremony.

ITK Volleyball in Spanish Senior lecturers: Ronny Hampe and Leonhard StampehlCoodinator: Daniel AndräInterpreter: Elke Winkler

Sports Management in English Senior lecturer and coordinator: Sandy AdamInterpreter: Anne J. Schieck

ITK Track & Field in EnglishSenior lecturer and coordinator: Jens Kühnast Interpreter: Sandra Penkalla

ITK Football in Arabic Senior lecturer and Coordinator: Johannes LitwinowInterpreter: Monia Kari

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Excursions and Projects

The cultural highlight of every semester is the trip of all ITK students to Germany’s capital Berlin. The top destinations of this trip were the Olympic Stadium, Charlottenburg Palace, the Reichstag building and the Brandenburg Gate. Throughout their stay in Leipzig, participants also had the opportunity to watch and analyze live sporting events of various competition classes on field trips in their specific discipline.

ITK Football participants found matches of youth and professional teams on their agenda. They watched 1st league home matches of RB Leipzig in the Red Bull Arena and observed matches of the SFV school football tournament. ITK football participants also acted as referees during the school cup in Soccerworld Leipzig, together with the ITK sports management students they visited the upper league team BSG Chemie. The ITK football students were able to put acquired knowledge into practice during classes with primary school pupils of Lessingschule. The varied list

of field trips was completed by observations of junior female players at RB Leipzig and the female team of SG Olympia.

This semester ITK Track & Field students benefited from Sven Lang’s expertise in throwing events – after all he is the German national coach for female and male shot put. The most important events for Track & Field participants were the Hallesche Werfertage and the German U23 Championships in Wetzlar where they also met students of the DLV Auslandstrainerakademie (Academy for Foreign Coaches of the DLV). In addition they also observed numerous competitions in Leipzig. (Photo: Christian Gustedt)

ITK Sports for the Disabled participants could not only prove their skills during a friendly match in Sitting Volleyball against the BVL but also in a Wheelchair Basketball match against the RSL. One highlight of the term was certainly the Youth Länder Cup of the German Youth in Sports for the Disabled (Behindertensportjugend DBSJ) in Breitenbrunn where participants could see athletes competing in Para-table tennis, Para-swimming, Para-judo and Para-athletics.

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Several Nations League matches of the German men’s team were on the agenda of ITK Volleyball participants, notably the match of Germany versus acting World Champions Poland. In addition they watched the relegation match of the men’s team and their promotion to the second national league as well as league games and training sessions of the L.E. Volleys Leipzig. The SSVB invited our students for a tour of their administrative office and an open discussion of Germany‘s club culture. Together with participants of the ITK Sports for the Disabled course and the Leipzig

Sitting Volleyball Players, the students could make new experience in a Sitting Volleyball tournament. In addition, they acted as referees during the “Jugend trainiert für Olympia” school competition and the Saxon Championships for children and adolescents.

After the successful first edition of the children’s version of the Internationales Sportfest in cooperation with the Lessingschule Leipzig, ITK Sports Management students organized the second edition of this event. Held on the Olympic Day, the event aimed at introducing Paralympic disciplines to pupils and adults who were excited to try some of those disciplines. During a 2-day excursion to Dresden, ITK students also visited two multi-sports clubs, namely SV Motor Mickten and DSC Dresden, that gave them insights into their club organization, membership management and

current projects. Part of this excursion was also to visit the pro-club Dynamo Dresden, where the students were introduced, among others, to the academy for young players and its day-to-day processes. Another highlight of the semester was surely to get introduced to the club BSG Chemie, jointly with the students of ITK Football. Prior to that the club had invited the students to watch the club’s promotion match, so that the student also got the chance to experience the fan culture at the stadium very closely.

ITK Cooperations & Partner Organizations

We would like to thank our partners who enable our students to put theory into practice by allowing them to do observations and friendly matches. Our partners give participants insights into local club structures, competition systems and the opportunity to actively participate in club life.We would like to express our deepest gratitude for the cooperation of the following sports associations, clubs and institutions:

ITK Sports for the DisabledRasenBallsport Leipzig e.V. (RB), Sächsischer Fußball-Verband e.V. (SFV), Lessingschule Leipzig

ITK FootballDeutscher Leichtathletik-Verband e.V. (DLV), SC DHfK Leichtathletik, SG MoGoNo Leipzig

ITK VolleyballBehindertensportverein Leipzig e.V. (BVL), Rehasport Leipzig e.V. (RSL)

ITK Track & Field Sächsischer Sportverband Volleyball e.V. (SSVB), L.E. Volleys e.V., SV Reudnitz e.V.

ITK Sport ManagementBSG Chemie Leipzig e.V., Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund e.V. (DOSB) / DOA, DSC Dresden e.V., Landessportbund Sachsen (LSB), Lessingschule Leipzig, SG Dynamo Dresden e.V., SV Motor Mickten e.V., University of Applied Sciences

ITK was honored to receive the following guests ...

... Fatima Morales, Sports Minister of Paraguay, and Roberto Maidana, Envoy of the Embassy of Paraguay in Germany who visited ITK to talk about potential projects and cooperation.

... Gongsak Yodmani, Director of the Sports Authority of Thailand, received an introduction to ITK and potential pro-jects in or in partnership with Thailand.

... Paramita Tripathi, Envoy of the Indian Embassy in Germany, came to know more about ITK and possible future cooperation of ITK and Indian universities.

... from Berlin Michelle Müntefering, Minister of State for International Cultural Policy in the German Foreign Office and Daniela Kolbe, Member of the German Bundestag were both interested in the work of ITK and praised our com-mitment to our mission.

… Susanne Gaerte, Officer for “Sports for Development“ at the German Olympic Sports Association (DOSB) and Axel Sikorski, Advisor for “Sports for Development“ at the German Association for International Cooperation (GIZ), talked about new possibilities and incentives for future participants from OECD countries.

„Move - Learn - Discover“: Internationales Sportfest in June 2019 – Organized by ITK Sports Management students

ITK was proud to gain the German Olympic Academy (DOA) as a partner in hosting the Internationales Sportfest on the occasion of the Olympic Day. We would like to thank DOA for their generous support for this project. Together with the students of the Sports Management course, ITK participants and pupils of the Lessingschule could test themselves in para-sports like wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and blind goal shooting.

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ITK Pathfinder Program Benin 2019

From 4 to 17 February the ITK Pathfinder Program Benin 2019 took place on the initiative of ITK graduate Aldo Rigis Gnonlonfoun. Under the direction of ITK lecturer Daniel Andrä, 30 coaches, P.E. teachers and staff from various local clubs benefited from sessions on personal development in sports, children’s handball and project organization. For the first time ITK graduates contributed to the content of the program as guest speakers. The training seminar was a successful collaboration of the INJEPS (National Institute for the Education and Sport Physique), the University of Abomey-Calavie (UAC) and the Handball

Association of Benin. On the basis of this seminar, the partners are now jointly developing new modules for the P.E. teacher training of the INJEPS which are to start from February 2020. Video

… AND THERE IS MORE

ITK Pathfinder Program Mexico 2019

In parallel to the Benin project, ITK realized a second Pathfinder Program in Mexico with more than 200 participants. Dr. Gerald Voß, renowned Track & Field expert in conditioning and speed, and his wife Ines Voß conducted the training of P.E. teachers and coaches. In the cities of Mexico City, Puebla and Veracruz, we cooperated with several local partners: the “Instituto Veracruzano del Deporte”, the “Direccion de Educacion Física de la Secretaria de Educacion Publica del Estado de Puebla” and “el Benemérito Instituto Normal del Estado”. The successful realization of this project was also possible thanks to the close

cooperation with the ITK México alumni association which was founded in 2017. Special thanks go to ITK graduates Olimpia Puerto Moctezuma, David Fernando Pérez Medellin and Pilar Guzman. In addition to the scheduled program, there were intensive talks regarding the planned ITK Ambassador Meeting in Mexico in autumn 2019.

ITK Pathfinder Program Tanzania 2019

In spring 2019 ITK realized a third ITK Pathfinder program in Tanzania under the patronage of RB Leipzig football player Yussuf Poulsen. Project initiator and ITK alumnus, Tuntufye Mwambusi, invited instructors Andreas Pach and Martin Hammel of the Saxon Football Federation (SFV) to conduct 50 teaching units. In addition to the successful training of 25 coaches from different football academies, numerous students from Dar-es-Salaam had the opportunity to participate in the training. Since coaches, children and adolescents were enthusiastic about the project, the second edition as well as a continuous offer

and further development of this training program is being planned. To this end, the cooperation with the Ministry of Sport in Tanzania, the Faculty of Sport Sciences of the University of Dar-es-Salaam and the Tanzanian Football Association will be continued. The German Embassy in Tanzania has already pledged its support for a new project in August 2019. Video

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ITK turn 55

For more than 55 years the International Coaching Courses have been offering people from all over the world the opportunity to develop their sporting expertise and expand their intercultural network in Leipzig. More than 5400 students from 146 countries have gone through the program financed by the German Foreign Office until now. On the occasion of our 55th anniversary, we would like to thank the Foreign Office for their longstanding cooperation and financial support.

ITK Ambassador

New Ambassadors in 2019

Ten ITK Alumni were appointed ITK Ambassadors in 2019:

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Aldo L. F. Rigis GnonlonfounBenin

ITK Handball 2017/18aldo.gnonlonfoun@itk-leipzig.de

Munyaradzi MhondaBotswana

ITK Sports Management 2017/18munya.mhonda@itk-leipzig.de

Maria José Gutiérrez SerranoChile

ITK Football 2011 mariajose.gutierrezserrano@itk-leipzig.de

Mahmoud Lamin JawlaGambia

ITK Handball 2012/13mahmoudlamin.jawla@itk-leipzig.de

Mai Olivia Yin Hua Thawng LuaiMyanmarITK Sports Management 2017olivia.thawngluai@itk-leipzig.de

Tuntufye Aggrey MwambusiTanzaniaITK Sports Management 2017/18tuntufye.mwambusi@itk-leipzig.de

Atsou AnatoTogoITK Volleyball 2018atsou.anato@itk-leipzig.de

Jennet RahimovaTurkmenistanITK Handball 2018/19jennet.rahimova@itk-leipzig.de

Karim Gonzalez MalladaParaguayITK Gymnastics 1995/96karim.mallada@itk-leipzig.de

Isabel Jaime QuetxoaioMozambique

ITK Sports Management 2018/19isabeljaime.quetxoaio@itk-leipzig.de

LOOKING AHEAD

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ITK Alumni Meeting in Côte d‘Ivoire

The summer break will again be used for an Alumni Meeting between former ITK students and ITK staff. From 5 to 9 August 2019, ITK Managing Director Daniel Eckert-Lindhammer, ITK lecturer Jens Kühnast and ITK interpreter Meike Behlau will travel to Côte d‘Ivoire. In Abidjan participants will receive trai-ning in Track & Field under the motto “Train the Trainer”. We are happy to announce that Günter Lange (IAAF), a renowned expert in athletics development and training, will also be in-volved.

The 2nd ITK in 2019/20

2 September 2019 is the starting date of the 2nd ITK 2019/20 with the following courses: Handball in Arabic, Condi-tioning Coach in English, Basketball in French and Swimming in Spanish. The ITK Sports Management course will start on 1 October 2020.

All scheduled courses up to 2022 and their respective application deadlines are listed here.

Alumni Portrait

After their course in Leipzig, many of our alumni are working as sports officials, coaches and P.E. teachers in their home countries. During their work, they benefit from the skills and knowledge they acquired during their further education course at the Sports Science Faculty in Leipzig. In our new series “ITK met ...” we would like to give our Alumni a chance to speak about their work. The format will offer us a glimpse of their experience as well as different work and life stories from all around the world – all of which are linked over time and distance by their training at the International Coaching Courses.

In the coming weeks our alumni will receive a call for their stories via our mailing list and we are looking forward to many responses and exciting testimonials!

ALUMNICAMP

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