Dear Friends,

Hereby, we have the pleasure to inform you that the European Aquatics will organize European Aquatics Water Polo Referees School 2025.

The School will be organized by European Aquatics Academy, as part of the Water Polo Technical Officials certification program in 2025.

This edition of the school will be organized in two parts.

The first part will be online, with the presence of the highest-level representatives of European Aquatics, European Aquatics Education Academy and European Aquatics Water Polo experts as lecturers on 10th of May 2025.

The second part will be organized onsite, in Istanbul (Türkiye), from the 22nd – 25th of May 2025
in cooperation with the Turkish Water Polo Federation.

This School is open to new candidates, who want to become International Referees   and Federations may present all those having at least one year of experience as referee, at the highest National level and who have the intention to be nominated to the European Aquatics Referees List and officiate at international competitions in the future.

The entire school/program will consist of a theoretical and a practical part. The first part will be dedicated to theoretical preparations and the second part consists of a theoretical and a practical education as the final evaluation. 

The course consists of a part dedicated to the correct interpretation and application of the Water Polo rules & Regulations, ethics, behavior, and history. Moreover, a Water Polo Rules test as well
a practical examination will be done.

All candidates, who successfully pass the school will receive the European Aquatics Basic certification level which gives the opportunity to achieve an Intermediate certification level during the season 2025/2026 and to be appointed at the European Aquatics Water Polo competitions as Referees during that season.