Norman Brook, has just returned from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he conducted a workshop with Niklas Grau to test a new manual titled Sport2Work that has been commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The manual being written by Norman Brook, Donny Jurgens and Niklas Grau aims to help coaches in four team sports – basketball, football, handball, and volleyball – develop soft employability skills in young people through sports activity on and off the field.
The manual is being designed primarily for use in TVET institutions linking to National Occupation Standards, but will be flexible with potential use in High Schools, Sports Federations and in the NGO sector.