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International Basketball University in partnership with Lithuanian basketball coaches association THE FOUR MONTHS ONLINE INTENSIVE COURSE FOR ADVANCED YOUTH BASKETBALL COACHES Duration of the course: 4 months, 16 weeks, 2 classes per week. Online course platform: www.ibuvideo.com Structure of the class: One online class duration is 120 min. Study weekdays: Friday (1 class) and Saturday (1 class) Structure of the topics: One week covers one topic, which is divided into two classes. Evaluation: One reflection form (up to 400 words) should be completed on each topic and sent to the course coordinator by email info@basketballstudies.com. Diploma awarded: Lithuanian Basketball Coaches Association diploma, [...]

Three days Online course for advanced Youth basketball coaches will start February 1st, 2021 on IBUvideo.com platform.  The course content builds an understanding on Youth basketball teams' tactic development, presents Youth players strength and conditioning programs and drills as well as improvement of players technique actions. Speakers are world-famous basketball experts like Legendary Lithuanian basketball player Rimantas Kaukenas, Finish National Men's team head coach Henrik Dettmann, FIBA Strenght & conditioning coach Alejandro Vaquera from Spain, Basketball scientist Prof. Rutenis Paulauskas and famous basketball coach Steponas Kairys from Lithuania. It is a great opportunity for every coach to refresh and upgrade Youth [...]

The two-month course for basketball managers is intended for any level of basketball executives, coaches, basketball team, and club leaders whose activities are focused on the development of a basketball organization. The course is delivered in a fully ONLINE mode. The content will be presented by leading world basketball managers – Maurizio Gherardini (Fenerbahce Istanbul), Peter Tutlys (Brands development innovator), Jonas Vainauskas (Former GM of Lietuvos Rytas, Vilnius), Richard Stokes (Head of Euroleague referees), Rimantas Kaukenas (former player of LTU National team) and many others. After completing the reflections document the course participant is awarded a diploma from International Basketball University and [...]

  The 2nd World Basketball Forum event attracted the attention of thousands of basketball professionals. For four days, basketball experts from Lithuania, Canada, Australia, China, Italy and Russia presented global issues of basketball development, which were reviewed by over 100,000 conference participants during online broadcasts! The Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to China, Mr. Vilius Samuila, leaders of China's regional basketball federations, leaders of Beijing Sports University made speeches at the opening of the event. Presentations were done by world-class basketball professionals such as Maurizio Gherardini (Italy), Peter Tutlys (Canada), Matt Weston (Australia), Prof. Rūtenis Paulauskas (Lithuania), and others. During [...]

THE 2ND WORLD BASKETBALL FORUM 2020 www.worldbasketforum.com The World Basketball Forum – is a major international event focusing on exploring the phenomenon of the fastest growing sport in the world – basketball. This annual forum will bring together speakers of different world-leading basketball organizations to share the knowledge and experience of how basketball sport can be developed using the best practice of the world-leading basketball organizations such as FIBA, CBA, Euroleague, and others. It will be a great opportunity for local Chinese basketball stakeholders and international participants (coaches, managers, referees, and fans) to learn the best world practice of basketball development [...]

From December 1rst, 2020, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) in partnership with International Basketball University will begin offering a unique Master in Basketball Business Administration (MBA). Well-recognized global leaders in the basketball field will lecture including NBA Vice-President for Europe Jesus Bueno Pascual, the former Australian Basketball League Head Matt Weston and many Lithuanian basketball officials. Programme Director and organizational leadership specialist Dr. Ray Smith from the U.S. said the program will offer lectures by MRU and recognized basketball industry heads allowing to learn about marketing, human resources, and leadership from those already established in the field. Head of International Basketball University [...]

  International Basketball University (IBU) along with the Lithuanian Association of Basketball Coaches (LBCA) has launched cooperation with the Moroccan Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA). This agreement comes in a context where the MBCA is in the launching phase to participate actively in the improvement of the supervision of Moroccan coaches and also to conclude partnership agreements with all the entities which can contribute to the promotion of the basketball growth. Simultaneously, Lithuanian basketball being one of the world leader’s in the Basketball world has unique youth and professional basketball training systems and basketball coaching knowledge. "It is an exciting day for [...]

Due to continued global growth of Coronavirus situation, the IBU has decided to cancel April and May intensive courses for basketball coaches for participant's health safety reasons. We thank all registered participants for their understanding and support. The following course will be held in June along with the Olympic Men's Basketball Qualifying Tournament in Kaunas, Lithuania. Full details on the June Youth Basketball Coaching Course will be available shortly.

The February IBU 5-Day Intensive Basketball Coaching Course brought together coaches from 10 countries around the world. Basketball coaches from Ghana, Philippines, Turkey, Ireland, Estonia, China, Ukraine, Denmark, Belarus and Lithuania in Kaunas studied Lithuanian basketball methodology, visited local youth basketball schools, watched Euroleague game and interacted with Lithuanian basketball legends. "It was an amazing time of basketball knowledge and innovation, I learned a lot and I recommend everyone come here," said Richard Borsah, a basketball coach from Ghana at the end of the course. Intensive International Basketball University courses are held monthly and are primarily aimed at youth basketball coaches [...]

We are proud to announce that IBU growth in the basketball country of Philippines is getting fast,  having the big help of basketball lover and very talented coach Mr. Raymon Mercader, IBU is launching an online course for local basketball coaches in  Municipality of Kibawe at the province of Bukidnon.  Leading Lithuanian basketball coaches will share their knowledge and experience about youth players development, strength and conditioning programs, building team tactic and players technique development. We are very grateful to  Municipal Mayor Mr. HON. REYNALDO S. RABANES and other leaders of Municipality of Kibawe for support of IBU projects.  We are [...]