On the 16th of April 2019 EOSE Director of Standards Ben Gittus attended the Development Meeting of the European Hockey Federation (EHF) in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

The meeting was attended by the development leads from seven of the leading national hockey federations, as well as colleagues from FIH, the International federation for hockey.

The first part of the meeting was dedicated to updates from national federations about their development strategy and how they are developing hockey in their country through various campaigns, projects and pr‎ogrammes.

Ben presented and discussed the role of EOSE and provided an update on EU sport policy and funding programmes. Ben also provided hints and tips for applying for EU funding and gave examples of projects including the ONSIDE project to develop sport officials in Europe (see www.onside-sport.eu).