The I CoSCABal University Congress ended last Saturday after three intense days of an exchange of information about handball at the university level. The speakers, career directors, deans of faculties, university professors showed the different realities of countries such as Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and Spain.
Among the objectives of this Congress, the main one focused on providing a starting point for the South and Central American Handball University Network for the technical and social development of this sport. The Coordinator of the Network, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, together with Immanuel Cruz, showed an initial diagnosis of the different realities and future actions of the Network, among which they focus on joining it to generate spaces and joint projects around university teaching. , training and research. Currently, the University of León in Spain, along with other Universities from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica are already adhered to the Network. In the Congress, other Universities through their representatives showed their interest in joining this proposal which aims to generate synergies between university handball agents. Those who wish to contact the coordinator to know the steps to follow, can contact by sending an email to developmentcoscabal@gmail.com
The last day culminated with different exhibitions, among which the organizers of the III INTERNATIONAL HANDBALL CONGRESS, Dr. Sebastián Feu and Dr. Antonio Antúnez showed the most interesting evolution of the different initiatives that are being developed around the scientific field of handball. In addition, a first approach was established for future collaborations between COSCABAL and the aforementioned CONGRESS, in which they can still register through the following link:
https://sites.google.com/view/coinba2021
The closing ceremony was directed by the president of COSCABAL, Mr. Marcel Mancilla, who, valued the development of the University Handball Network, committed to the Development Commission to continue promoting all the programs that are being carried out. carried out and left the door open to future collaborations with different entities to work in favor of the growth of handball in South and Central America.
* The Congress can be seen on the YouTube channel Handball SC América
