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DE-PASS Proof of Concept Training School, University of Limerick, Ireland, Jan 2023 – Dr. Kieran Dowd Between 9th and 11th January 2023, the University of Limerick hosted a Training School for researchers and national leads from 10 nations across the European Union, all of whom have committed to engaging in deliverable 4.5 of DE-PASS. The...

View the DE-PASS short animation video explaining the EU COST Action CA19101 ‘Determinants of Physical Activity in Settings’. DE-PASS seeks to identify, understand and measure the factors/determinants which promote, maintain or inhibit Physical Activity Behaviours (PABs) across the lifespan and in different settings. The Action aims to translate the knowledge learned to assist and inform...

DEPASS Short Term Scientific Mission and/or Virtual Mobility Grant Opportunity – “DE-PASS Data Management Protocol Development” Deadline 28th October 2022. DE-PASS (DEterminants of Physical Activity BehaviourS in Settings) is an EU COST Action which has a focus on identifying, understanding and measuring the determinants which promote, maintain or inhibit Physical Activity Behaviours (PABs) across the...

First published paper by DE-PASS: Khudair, M., Marcuzzi, A., Ng, K., Tempest, G.D., Bartoš, F., Peric, R., Maier, M., Beccia, F., Boccia, S., Brandes, M. and Cardon, G., 2022. DE-PASS Best Evidence Statement (BESt): modifiable determinants of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents aged 5–19 years–a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ...

Sports industry is a market where people, activities, businesses and organisations are involved in producing, facilitating, promoting, or organising any activity, experience, or a business enterprise focused on sports. It is the market where the businesses or products offered to its buyers are sport-related, and these may be goods, services, people, places, or ideas.1  Sport is a big part of our...

DE-PASS STSM / VIRTUAL MOBILITY CALL, June to October 2022. ‼️The application deadline for DEPASS Short Term Scientific Missions and Virtual Mobility Grants has been extended until Friday 24th June. Please contact us at info@depass.eu if you are interested and please submit your application prior to the 24th June. All details available at https://depass.eu/activities/stsms-and-virtual-mobility-grants/ ‼️ COST...

DE-PASS Network Meeting, Porto, May 2022 The DE-PASS Network Meeting for 2022 took place in Porto on the 4th & 5th of May 2022 with 65 members from 30 countries attending on the day or virtually.  There were many key highlights at Work Group (WG)/Deliverable level as well as at the Management Committee (MC) meeting...

International Conference – Complexity and Opportunities of Transdisciplinary Research: From Sports to Management to Policies On May 7, 2022, the University of Rome Foro Italico will host the International Conference “Complexity and Opportunities of Transdisciplinary Research: From Sports to Management to Policies”. In the last decade, European collaborative networks of researchers from different fields and sports...

Seeking candidates for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022 application. The project: DE-PASS is a COST-Action focused on the determinants of physical activity behaviours. One of the planned outputs of DE-PASS is a Europe-wide “Proof of Concept” prospective cohort study. This is a multi-centred cross-European data collection project. In each country, physical activity data...

Registration is now closed for the face to face workshops, online keynote registration remains open – DEPASS Training School April 2022 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 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) and DE-PASS are still inviting...