Category: Egyéb kategória

Final Transnational Project Meeting – Katerini

The fifth and final Transnational Project Meeting took place in May 2025 in Katerini, Greece led by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Asterias Swim Club, and served as both a professional event and a celebration of the project’s achievements.

Alongside training sessions and demonstration matches, the meeting featured an important milestone: the first Water Skyball training involving athletes with physical and mental disabilities. This experience clearly demonstrated the sport’s adaptability and inclusive character.

The final meeting closed the project on a high note, reinforcing the educational, social, and innovative values of Water Skyball and setting a strong foundation for its future international development.

4th Transnational Project Meeting – Bucharest

In February 2025, the fourth Transnational Project Meeting was held in Bucharest, Romania, combining academic expertise with practical sport experience.

Hosted by the Romanian National University of Physical Education and Sports and club partners, the meeting brought together students, coaches, and sport professionals. The program included theoretical courses, practical water sessions, and an Amateur Water Skyball Championship.

The Bucharest meeting strengthened the connection between higher education and sport practice, supporting the integration of Water Skyball into university-level education and increasing its visibility within the academic sport community.

3rd Transnational Project Meeting – Opole, Poland

The third Transnational Project Meeting took place in Opole, Poland, in October 2024 and placed strong emphasis on education and dissemination. The meeting was hosted by T. S. Iron Man.

A teachers’ conference and open training introduced Water Skyball to sport educators from the region, highlighting its value for schools and youth programs. The meeting concluded with the 1st International Polish Water Skyball Championship, which attracted local attention and increased visibility for the sport.

This meeting marked an important milestone in Central Europe, helping establish new partnerships and confirming Water Skyball’s strong educational and inclusive potential.

2nd Transnational Project Meeting – Heinsberg, Germany

The second Transnational Project Meeting was hosted in Germany in August 2024 and focused on deepening coaching competencies and adapting Water Skyball to different local contexts hosted by BSV Wassenberg.

Building on the foundations laid in Hungary, partners shared best practices, refined training approaches, and tested educational materials in practical settings. The meeting once again included hands-on sessions and an Amateur Water Skyball Cup, reinforcing the inclusive and accessible nature of the sport.

This meeting played a key role in strengthening international cooperation and increasing motivation among trainers to integrate Water Skyball into national sport and education programs.

1st Transnational Project Meeting – Szeged & Makó, Hungary

The first Transnational Project Meeting took place in Hungary in June–July 2024 and set the tone for the entire project. Partners and trainers gathered for four intensive days of learning, training, and collaboration led by the Hungarian Water Skyball Federation.

The program combined theoretical discussions with extensive practical sessions on land and in the water. Participants had the opportunity to experience Water Skyball firsthand, explore coaching techniques, and exchange ideas about training methodology.
A major highlight of the meeting was the Amateur Water Skyball Championship in Makó, which demonstrated the sport’s community-building and recreational potential.

This opening meeting strengthened cooperation between partners and provided valuable feedback that shaped the next phases of the project.

About the WSB Training of Trainers Project

The Water Skyball in Europe – Training of Trainers (WSB-ToT) project was created to strengthen professional capacity around an innovative, inclusive, and modern water sport: Water Skyball.

Over two years, the project brought together sport organizations and academic institutions to develop educational materials, practical training experiences, and shared methodologies for coaches, trainers, and sport professionals. The focus was not only on learning the rules of Water Skyball, but also on understanding how the sport can be adapted to different educational, recreational, and community settings.

The partnership included the Hungarian Water Skyball Federation from Hungary, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from Greece, T.S. Iron Man from Poland, National University of Physical Education and Sports from Romania, and BSV Wassenberg from Germany.
Together, these partners explored how Water Skyball can support inclusion, skill development, gender balance, and lifelong participation in sport.

The WSB-ToT project laid the groundwork for the long-term development of Water Skyball across Europe by empowering trainers and fostering strong international cooperation.

As the final phase of our project, we organized multiplier events during the last quarter of 2023. The goal of these events was to spread the word of our project, share what we’ve learnt and find new ideas and possible cooperation in the field of sports.

The series of events started with 3 webinars by the participation of 4 partners in the project. The Hungarian Water Skyball Federation presented about the background, the rules, the equipment and infrastructure, the tactics and skills development through the sport.

Then one event was organized in each other participating countries, in Germany, Greece and Austria. 

BSV Wassenberg held their dissemination event in cooperation with the Heinsberg prison. 23 sports officers participated from 18 different youth prisons from all over Germany. 

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens organized their multiplier event online. The webinar had 26 participants, mostly trainers, physical education teachers, university teaching staff and students of physical education and sports. 

Club Life Long Learning presented the project in the  Pedagogical University of Innsbruck, Austria for 10 sports students.

The presentations were well received, questions and ideas were raised on how to continue the cooperation and using Water Skyball as a health promoting sport.

• 

• 

• 

Thank you to all the members in the project for your great work, and to the European Commission’s funding that enabled this cooperation!

The home of our final transnational project meeting was the beautiful Katerini in Greece, at the foot of Mount Olympus. The first day, the project partners met at the venue of the sporting event to discuss project management questions, as well as topics related to the webinars planned for this autumn. Also, the members of the participant organizations played their traditional in-house friendly Water Skyball tournament. As it was the fourth time most of them played the game, the experienced players played exciting and enjoyable matches.

The second and third day our host, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens organized the WSB sporting event in cooperation with the Asterias Swim Club. The swim club provided the venue of the event, a swimming pool just suitable for WSB and a friendly and warm environment. Citizens from Katerini and the members of the swim club were invited and joined the event to try out Water Skyball for the first time. Children and adults played and enjoyed several games creating a great community. The players and the swim club became interested in picking up WSB as a new activity as it was a fun and engaging aquatic sport to play.

Although it was our last in-person project meeting, the project goes on with webinars and live introductory events about Water Skyball in each participating country (Hungary, Germany, Austria and Greece) during the autumn months.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

As we’ve organized our 3rd TNPM in Innsbruck, Water Skyball has been introduced for the first time in Austria. Our host, Club Life Long Learning from Austria organized the transnational project meeting in the beautiful city of Innsbruck. 

During the first day of our meeting, the consortium members met and discussed the tasks and responsibilities around the upcoming sport event, the schedule and agenda for the webinar sessions throughout the autumn, as well as the details of the last project meeting in Greece. We also had the chance to meet with the members from another Erasmus+ project, ‘Sport Camps’. We had interesting discussions with prison officers and trainers about the involvement of prisoners into sports and physical activities. Inspired by these conversations and our previous sport events during the project, we formed various new project ideas and intentions for future cooperation.

The second day of our meeting was dedicated to the WSB sport event at the sport campus of the University of Innsbruck. Participants from various age groups came to try out the new sport and participate in the amateur WSB championship. Luckily, both the Austrian and German team members could coordinate and instruct the players in their native language, so the event was smooth and the players could absolutely enjoy the fun and healthy leisure time. Throughout the day the inhouse tournament of the consortium members was held as well, involving new participants from the Greek team, but with the victory of the more experienced German team. 

All in all, another great sport event was organized and provided good practice and example for all the participants!

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

We organized our 2^nd Transnational Project Meeting in Budapest, Hungary between 19^th and 23^rd January. The 5 days contained many events for the members of the partnership and the public as well.

On the second day of our project meeting, we organized a Water Skyball sporting event at Tüskecsarnok swimming pool in Budapest, where students from Neumann Janos High School were invited to try out the WSB training exercises. Throughout the day 4 classes of 15-17 years old students joined and participated in the training sessions. The youngsters enjoyed the playful exercises, while their strength, stamina and coordination skills were trained.

• 

• 

• 

• 

Then the project team had a training session about the rules and gameplay of Water Skyball. We watched some videos about WSB games and referee training. To practice and experience the game in practice as well, we organized an in-house, friendly championship. So each project member could learn and enjoy playing WSB in practice. 4 teams were formed: 2 from the German BSV Wassenberg, 1 from the Greek National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and 1 from the Austrian Club Life Long Learning. The host Hungarian Water Skyball Federation acted as the referees and organizer of the event. The project members showed great improvement during the games and enjoyed playing. At the end the small championship finished with the victory of one of the German teams.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

As a second sporting event to promote Water Skyball and the health enhancing effects of sports, we also organized a one-day-long event at Aquaworld Budapest. The goal of the event was to motivate and involve people in sports and exercise. To fit the atmosphere of the fun water park, we created various sessions of playful contests for the guests. Children and adults were happy to get involved and play some games in the water. The fun exercises from the Water Skyball training method were a great tool to involve people in physical activity as they could hardly notice that they’re doing exercises while having a good time. All in all, we’d like to thank all the project partners and the public for participating and contributing to these fantastic events.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

•