A symbolic participation fee (25,00 €) is required to reserve your place and minimise no-shows, as workshop capacity is limited.
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1. The Future of HEPA: From SLOfit Data to SmartCHANGE Behaviour, 14:00 – 17:00
Coordinator: Gregor Jurak, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport
About: How can we turn movement behaviour and fitness monitoring into a clinical asset? This workshop presents a roadmap for using these data and AI to identify health risks early and provide personalized interventions that turn data points into lifelong habits.
2. From Pledge to Practice: Building Skills for Climate and Sustainability Action, 14:00 – 17:00
Coordinator: Antonina Tcymbal, WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health, Department of Sport Science and Sport, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
About: Participants will gather knowledge about the integration of planetary health measures into scientific practice. Problems will be identified from different perspectives: individual, practical, and policy perspective. Subsequently, possible measures will be highlighted and will serve as starting points for discussion and implementation.
Who shall attend the workshop: Scientists, practitioners, and policymakers. HEPA-Europe has embraced a planetary health pledge and wants to bring it forward. In this workshop we will work on co-designing ways to implement the pledge and provide hands-on tools. Experience from all kinds of backgrounds is warranted to both bring in the needed expertise and to implement the suggested solutions in everyday practice.
3. Physical Activity Policy Implementation: Measures, Methods and Means of Evaluation, 09:00 – 12:00
Coordinator: Petru Sandu, University Babes-Bolyai
About: The workshop’s purpose is to provide attendees with knowledge, skills and experience of how to conduct a physical activity policy implementation evaluation nationally, regionally or locally. The main expected benefits for the participants are: 1) Gaining first-hand experience in using the physical activity environment policy index (PA-EPI), a tool designed to assess the extent of implementation of national and sub-national government policies and actions to promote PA; 2) Learning about international best practice policy exemplars (BPEs), and 3) Larning to evaluate, identify and prioritise policy implementation gaps and create feasible PA policy recommendations.
Who shall attend the workshop: The target audience is early and mid-career researchers but also policymakers and practitioners.
4. Sharing Experiences and Increasing Capacity in Physical Activity Policy Monitoring and Evaluation, 14:00 – 17:00
Coordinator: Petru Sandu, The National institute of Public Health in Romania
About: The workshop introduces the concepts of PA policy, monitoring&evaluation (M&E) and their importance for PA promotion. M&E tools, their usability, similarities, differences and challenges in using them in the context of real life policymaking are discussed; examples from how Member States are conducting their national PA policy/strategy M&E and why building capacity for PA policy M&E are necessary are introduced. Finally, a conversation around how the research-policy-practice gap can be bridged, in order to make the current tools more often used in practice, by (national and sub-national) governments is discussed and brainstormed.
Who shall attend the workshop: The target audience for the workshop are early and mid-career researchers looking into gaining a more in-depth understanding of the current scientific progress in PA policy M&E, but also policymakers and practitioners searching for practical solutions to conduct M&E of their policies or strategies to promote PA. The workshop is designed as a learning context but also an ”agora” for exchange of experiences and ideas.
