Malta Rugby League and their cluster nations have completed
their activities in the EU-backed Training and Education Portal project,
following a level 1 match official course in Marsa. The course was led by RLEF
Match Official tutor Phil Smith, and attended by local official Jean Pierre
Zarb, Norway’s Adrian Seglem, Serbia’s Radoslav Novakovic and Ukraine’s Roman
Bykhov.
“It was good to sit down with all the match officials from
the previous day’s international to discuss and review the game,” said Smith.
“This is an important element of development for officials and the course
allowed us time to analyse the situations that occurred and implement actions
as a way of improving ourselves. The co-operation we saw, in both the practical
sessions and the classroom, bodes well for all involved.”
The TEP is a three-year, €723.000 investment into capacity
building through good governance and technical training, funded by €466.000
from the EU’s Erasmus+ project and the remainder from the RLIF and five of its
full members. It is intended to build the knowledge and skills of the RLEF’s 21
European members, divided into six regional clusters, through high quality
training and mentoring, while granting opportunities to share experiences
amongst fellow Europeans dedicated to rugby league development.