EUSA Year Magazine 2023-2024

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EUROPEAN HANDBALL FEDERATION

The European Handball Federation, founded on November 17,

1991, is the umbrella organisation for handball in Europe and has

50 member federations and two associated federations.

With headquarters in Vienna,
Austria, EHF’s responsibilities
include the organisation
and management of the
world’s most high-profile
and competitive handball
competitions, as well as acting
as the common voice for the
European member federations
and representing the entire
European Handball family on the
international sporting stage.

EUSA and EHF have shaken the
cooperation hand and began a
longstanding relationship with
sharing an official partnership
back in 2013, when the
Memorandum of Understanding
was signed between the two
organisations.

With this established
cooperation, EHF undertook
the actions to provide and
support EUSA, with technical,
organisational know-how, as
well as with professional human
resources, in order to define,
organise and implement a great
level of Handball and Beach

Handball competitions with a

well organised playing system.

Besides the technical support,

EHF supports the Handball and

Beach Handball competitions

with the Young Referee Clinic,

nominating six to eight Young

Referee Project couples,

who serve as referees at the

competitions.

The great cooperation is

additionally strengthened

on the playing field with

having EHF lecturers and the

EHF staff supervising the

ongoing competitions. In 2023,

Marta Bon, Executive Board

Member of EHF and Gabriella

Horváth, EHF Beach Handball

Commission Chair, were present

at the European Universities

Handball and Beach Handball

Championships, serving as a

helping hands and supervisors of

the competitions.

Additionally, Predrag Pavicevic,

was assisting the European

Universities Handball

Championship, having a divided

role as a representative of the

Organizing Committee and EHF,

as well as Marcos Bestilleiro,

adding a great amount of

extra-valued help in the area

of competitions and referee

operations.

The engagement of the

Technical Delegates for

Handball, Paivi Mitrunen, for

Beach Handball, Jelena Eric,

as well as Assistant Technical

Delegate, Marco Trespidi, is done

due to the nomination of the

European Handball Federation.

Based on the previous

agreement between both

organisations, the cooperation

synergies are present on a great

level in terms of organising

sports events, making sure there

is no overlapping of schedules,

resulting in stronger cooperation

between EUSA and EHF staff.

The European Handball

Federation also adds a technical

value in terms of equipment, for

both, for Handball and Beach

Handball competitions.

The collaboration between

EUSA and EHF will be continued

with the next competitions in

Handball and Beach Handball,

planned to happen during the

European Universities Games

2024 in Debrecen and Miskolc,

Hungary, followed by the

already scheduled European

Universities Championships in

Handball, foreseen to happen in

Covilha, Portugal, from 22-28 of

July 2025 and Beach Handball,

attributed to Malaga, from July

20-25,2025.

The partnership between

EUSA and EHF serves as a

positive model and can signal

the development of similar

cooperation for other sports

governing bodies.

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SPORTS ASSOCIATION YEAR MAGAZINE 2023-24^156

8. EUSA COOPERATION AND ALLIANCES