22nd March 2023, Ljubljana – The Women’s Hockey Partnership for Progress project, together with national ice hockey associations of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia supports the International Ice Hockey Federation’s campaign Inspire The Next which was officially launched today.
The campaign is aimed to inspire women to get involved in ice hockey, both on and off the ice. The main objective of the campaign is to elevate the stories within the women’s game in terms of participation, awareness, and professional opportunities. While women’s ice hockey has grown in participation by almost 30,000 registered players in the past five years, the IIHF continues to work on recruiting the next generation of women in the game, whether players, officials, and coaches, or other supporting roles. Although the female game has made advances around the globe, the growing popularity of team sports among girls and women still offers numerous undeveloped opportunities.
The objectives of the #InspireTheNext campaign go hand-in-hand with the objectives of the WHPP project to promote and advance the game of women’s ice hockey within the Danube region. Over the next three year various events and activities in the region will be organized contributig to these goals – one of them already next month when the city of Maribor will host 1st WHPP Ice Hockey Festival and Academy.
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10th March 2023, Zürich – The news about the launch of Women’s Hockey Partnership for Progress, a unique program focused on the development of women’s ice hockey that is co-funded by the European Union, has made its way to the world’s ice hockey governing body.
IHF Slovenia’s Secretary General Dejan Kontrec and Majda Hanić from the Ice Hockey Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina talk about the goals and expectations of this three-year project.
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27th February 2023, Budapest – “The Women’s Hockey Partnership for Progress received very positive feedback by the IIHF members and other participants at the Summit,” commented WHPP Project Manager Haris Muhićwho, together with IHF Slovenia Secretary General Dejan Kontrec over the the last weekend attended the 2023 IIHF Women’s Ice Hockey Summitin Budapest.
“Being able to participate on behalf of the WHPP at this top level event in women’s ice hockey was not merely beneficial to the visibility of the project itself, but also offered us significant exchange of ideas and know-how that we can implement in the project over the next three years,” added Muhić while already looking ahead to the upcoming first WHPP Academy in Maribor (SLO) later this year.
The WHPP Delegation at the Summit with the IIHF President Luc Tardif and IIHF Senior Vice-President Petr Břiza
The two-day Summit focused on various aspects of the women’s game, including promotion and marketing which essential for attracting young girls to the sport. “In regions where women’s ice hockey is under-developed, we need larger focus on promotion to break with some stereotypes associated to girls taking up this sport,” said Dejan Kontrec reminding that ice hockey is still to often considered as male sport and visibility of women’s ice hockey is largely inter-linked with success in men’s hockey. “Hopefully, we can make some changes for the better with WHPP in the Danube region,” concluded Kontrec at the end of the conference in Budapest.
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WHPP joins the IIHF’s #InspireTheNext Campaign
/0 Comments/in Coaching, Development, News, Players /by WHPP PR22nd March 2023, Ljubljana – The Women’s Hockey Partnership for Progress project, together with national ice hockey associations of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia supports the International Ice Hockey Federation’s campaign Inspire The Next which was officially launched today.
The campaign is aimed to inspire women to get involved in ice hockey, both on and off the ice. The main objective of the campaign is to elevate the stories within the women’s game in terms of participation, awareness, and professional opportunities. While women’s ice hockey has grown in participation by almost 30,000 registered players in the past five years, the IIHF continues to work on recruiting the next generation of women in the game, whether players, officials, and coaches, or other supporting roles. Although the female game has made advances around the globe, the growing popularity of team sports among girls and women still offers numerous undeveloped opportunities.
The objectives of the #InspireTheNext campaign go hand-in-hand with the objectives of the WHPP project to promote and advance the game of women’s ice hockey within the Danube region. Over the next three year various events and activities in the region will be organized contributig to these goals – one of them already next month when the city of Maribor will host 1st WHPP Ice Hockey Festival and Academy.
WHPP project making headlines at IIHF.com
/0 Comments/in News /by WHPP PR10th March 2023, Zürich – The news about the launch of Women’s Hockey Partnership for Progress, a unique program focused on the development of women’s ice hockey that is co-funded by the European Union, has made its way to the world’s ice hockey governing body.
IHF Slovenia’s Secretary General Dejan Kontrec and Majda Hanić from the Ice Hockey Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina talk about the goals and expectations of this three-year project.
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WHPP at the Budapest IIHF Women’s Ice Hockey Summit
/0 Comments/in Development, Governance, News /by WHPP PR27th February 2023, Budapest – “The Women’s Hockey Partnership for Progress received very positive feedback by the IIHF members and other participants at the Summit,” commented WHPP Project Manager Haris Muhić who, together with IHF Slovenia Secretary General Dejan Kontrec over the the last weekend attended the 2023 IIHF Women’s Ice Hockey Summit in Budapest.
“Being able to participate on behalf of the WHPP at this top level event in women’s ice hockey was not merely beneficial to the visibility of the project itself, but also offered us significant exchange of ideas and know-how that we can implement in the project over the next three years,” added Muhić while already looking ahead to the upcoming first WHPP Academy in Maribor (SLO) later this year.
The two-day Summit focused on various aspects of the women’s game, including promotion and marketing which essential for attracting young girls to the sport. “In regions where women’s ice hockey is under-developed, we need larger focus on promotion to break with some stereotypes associated to girls taking up this sport,” said Dejan Kontrec reminding that ice hockey is still to often considered as male sport and visibility of women’s ice hockey is largely inter-linked with success in men’s hockey. “Hopefully, we can make some changes for the better with WHPP in the Danube region,” concluded Kontrec at the end of the conference in Budapest.