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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 provides a strategic roadmap for leveraging data and AI to identify early health risks and deliver personalized interventions that turn data points into lifelong habits. The session features three interlinked, movement-friendly modules separated by active “brain breaks”. First, participants will explore the potentials of fitness monitoring and surveillance through the features of SLOfit, the Slovenian national physical fitness monitoring system, and the multilingual FitBack platform for open-access fitness assessment. Second, they will experience a prototype installation from the Martin Krpan exhibition—inspired by the legendary Slovenian folk hero—to explore effective communication regarding the importance of physical fitness and HEPA. Third, participant will test the AI-supported ecosystem developed by the Horizon Europe SmartCHANGE project to identify Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) risks and create individualized interventions.
Who shall attend the workshop: Early and mid-career researchers, policymakers, and practitioners will gain insights into how AI solutions can leverage fitness and 24-hour movement data to drive tailored behavioral interventions and strategies for promoting physical activity.
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.
