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attended the seminar to further their professional
development, among them the
two Bundesliga managers Benjamin Chatton
(Hanover) und Axel Geerken (Melsungen),
who was named Best Student of the
Year. Emmanuelle Bru (HBC Nantes) has
likewise been working successfully in her
club’s management for quite a long time.
The participants had nothing but praise
for the high-calibre lecturers. “All lecturers
are top of the line in their respective fields,”
Chatton said. “I am very proud of the support
from the EHF and I am pleased to put
my effort into handball. The studies were a
great platform of knowledge presented by
our lecturers,” said Jurack, whose attendance
had been sponsored by the Women‘s
Handball Board.
This was the backdrop against which
the cooperation project between the
EHF and German Sports University had
evolved – to prepare future managers for
their duties in the handball business. Instruction
was provided in five comprehensive
modules: “Economic and legal requirements
of team sports”, “Team sport
governance and handball management”,
“Sport marketing and sponsorship”,
“Financing and licensing” and “Media and
communication training”.
“We started our initiative two years ago
and these studies will bring handball forward
in the future, will professionalise
this sport. The programme, conducted
by the German Sports University, is much
better than the manager programme in
basketball and the one planned in football,”
said Butzeck, director of Forum Club
Handball (FCH), one of the initiators of
the programme, who also attended the
awarding ceremony.
Programme Director Dr. Stefan Walzel
was highly satisfied with the outcome of
the first year of the European Handball
Manager Certificate studies. “We can be
proud of these certificate studies and the
achievement, as handball now is the role
model for other European sports. Those
new European handball managers are the
best ambassadors for the programme. All
graduates did a great job parallel to their
demanding jobs at clubs or federations.”
Meanwhile, word has got round of the
high quality of teaching in Cologne. The
next professional development pro-
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