Physical education and school sports: a creative approach to human rights and democracy – Webinar The Secretariat of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport is pleased to announce its upcoming Consultative Committee webinar on Physical education (PE) and school sports: a creative approach to human rights and democracy. This webinar will take place online on Monday 21 February 2022 from 15:00 to 17:00 (CEST) and will bring together...

Post-Doctoral Position Physical Activity & Mental Health, University of Limerick, Ireland The University of Limerick (UL), Ireland required an experienced researcher for a 24-month postdoctoral position.  Dr Matthew Herring UL was recently awarded a 24-month Health Research Board Ireland grant, entitled “Physical Activity Guidelines for Anxiety and Depression: Optimal Physical Activity Dose and Biopsychosocial Profiles...

Training School April 2022  Data collection, harmonisation, integrated & federated data analysis DE-PASS Training School “State of the art in physical activity behaviour (PAB) data collection, research harmonisation, integrated and federated data analysis across multiple cohorts and countries” The DE-PASS Training School (TS) extends across a three day period, and will be a live face...

Funded PhD Studentships available at Northumbria University – Closing Date Feb 18th 2022 Just one of the ambitious and valuable aims of the COST Action “Determinants of Physical ActivitieS in Settings” (DE-PASS) is to provide an effective Knowledge Transfer Platform (KTP). DE-PASS brings together researchers from a host of nations all interested in advancing science...

Virtual mobility grant towards the Best Evidence Statement preparation I was successful in my Virtual Mobility (VM) grant application as part of the virtual networking tools in DE-PASS cost action CA19101 to further advance the work in Deliverable 2.5 (D2.5) in Work Group 2. As deputy lead of D2.5, I have been coordinating D2.5 activities...

Dr Ivana Milovanović, Associate Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, Serbia, recipient of an Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITC) Conference Grant I am delighted to report that I was successful in my application for an ITC Conference Grant (advertised by the DE-PASS COST Action) and recently presented at the...

Determinants of physical activity and sedentary behaviour: Participation in a collaborative production of a best-evidence statement As part of my PhD project, I found a good opportunity in joining DE-PASS work group D.2.5, led by my supervisor Dr Fiona Ling, to which I could contribute to the deliverable and conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis...

Training School on Application and Implementation of Group Concept Mapping Techniques DE-PASS in partnership with Concept Systems Inc and PAfH (Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster, University of Limerick, Ireland) organized a Group Concept Mapping Webinar & Tutorial on 23rd and 30th September 2021.  These two events were the final events part of the first...

Virtual Mobility (VM) Grant to create BESt on determinants of Physical Activities for children/adolescents As one of the deliverables for the DE-PASS cost action CA19101 is to produce a Best Evidence Statement (BESt), this Virtual Mobility (VM) was a great occasion to work with the WG2, Deliverable 2.5 Core group members in charge of creation...

Virtual mobility in gathering evidence for the Best Evidence Statement, including disabilities – Dr. Kwok Ng, Finland. There have been recent calls in the Lancet, BSJM, and JPAH for scientific approaches to include physical activity data on persons with disabilities. As one of the deliverables for the DE-PASS cost action CA19101 is to produce a...