FIDE is proud to announce that the first FIDE course for Trainers shall take place from 18 to 25 July 2004 in the FIDE-Trainer Academy in Berlin. All Trainers who wish to obtain the official FIDE-Trainer Diploma are kindly invited to register.

International Trainer Academy of the World Chess Federation (FIDE)

The progressive performance-orientated further developing in competitive chess demands highly qualified specialists in the field of chess sport who are pedagogically schooled trainer personalities with a strong communicative charisma and team spirit. With a centralized education an enhancement of training activities in chess should be achieved.

Location
The training centre known by the term “Trainer Academy of FIDE” has a permanent location in the district Charlottenburg in Berlin, good traffic connections, and guarantees reasonable economic conditions.

Due to these reasons the City of Berlin with its international flair was chosen. The designated premises are found directly on the area of the Berlin Olympic Stadium, which will be redesigned for the coming World Championship 2006 in soccer into an attractive “Olympic park” for sports, culture, and free time activities.

Location:
FIDE-Trainerakademie
Hanns-Braun-Str., block 6, 14053 Berlin
tel.: +49 (030) 32679664, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

In direct neighbourhood, at a distance of 100 metres, is the office of the German Chess Federation and the General Secretariat of the European Chess Union located.

Address/Enrolment for courses at:
FIDE-Trainerakademie/Deutscher Schachbund e.V.
Hanns-Braun-Str., Friesenhaus I, 14053 Berlin
tel.: +49 (030) 3000 78 0, fax: +49 (030) 3000 78 30, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Feature/Furnishing:
There are four rooms with an area of 155 square meters available: course room, library, computer room, bureau. The rooms are equipped electronically and technically with internet access at each training place.

Support:
The International Trainer Academy of the FIDE is being supported and approved by the Minister of Interior (Home Office) and the Senate of the City of Berlin.

Training Objective/Licenses:
An education is to be strived for, which ensures that all graduates pass with a similar specific knowledge in chess. After the successful attendance at the trainer academy an acquired trainer-title can be achieved depending on which level is passed:

- FIDE-Instructor
- FIDE-Trainer
- FIDE Senior Trainer

Training Contents:
The educational contents of the courses at the FIDE-Trainer-Academy should be special lectures about international development in chess, material about “International Title rules by FIDE”, “FIDE-Rating-Rules” and “Organizational structures of the World Chess Federation and its Commissions”.
A special lesson course should occupy itself with modern education through computer chess, the possibilities through the internet in a form of “virtual classrooms”, with help of electronic teaching aids and learning aids (programme and compact discs), multimedia training and analysing with video/audio chat on the basis of net meetings, etc.

Who is allowed to take part?
The trainer academy is the central training post for courses and further education for trainers of all member federations of the Federation Internationale des Echecs. Preferred will be participants with trainer specific basic knowledge which they acquired at training events at their national federations (qualifications for trainers). The education will start in the year of 2004 with the realization of a first course for acquiring the title: FIDE-Trainer.

Administration:
The FIDE appointed GM Uwe Boensch as the administrator of the International Trainer Academy. He s a member of the FIDE-Trainer Committee and national trainer of the German Chess Federation.