WORKSHOP INFO
CONVENOR and CONTACT PERSON: Capranica Laura
CO-CONVENORS: Cabri Jan and Meeusen Romain
VENUE: University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Piazza Lauro de Bosis, 15 Rome, Italy
DATES: 14th -17th September 2011
AIM OF THE WORKSHOP
The aim of the The Future of Research in Sport Participation in the Lifespan (EW-SPiL) is intended to gather, to spread and to build knowledge on the most relevant issues that influence sport performance, understanding and monitoring of the development of sport adherence and achievement during the lifetime. Thus, EW-SPiL will develop interdisciplinary communication for constant involvement of the findings (sharing competences and a multidisciplinary research approach (i.e., the same problem observed from different disciplinary points of view). Scholars in sport sciences at an International level will share the needs of high-level research at university level or other public or private institutions, in educational, industrial, and other related areas. The workshop will integrate theoretical and applied competences and skills allowing to deal, at research and/or intervention level, with the complexities of sport performance in relation to special needs of populations such as children and older individuals involved in sport activities.
To open new research opportunities and to become a precious tool for educational, sport, governmental, and research Institutions, EW-SPiL will provide a strong interdisciplinary approach, and facilitate the exchange of European scholars in sport sciences. The quality of the workshop will be guaranteed by the involvement of distinguished scholars from several European and American Institutions internationally recognized for educational excellence and scientific merits. The cooperation of these different types of actors is unique to this network and will contribute to:
1) expand the knowledge and research perspectives on the most innovative technology in sport research with particular focus to field settings;
2) strengthen the links already established between the participants;
3) stimulate future research actions at European and International levels. Furthermore, EW-SPiL is intended as a precursor of future actors to achieve permanent forms of cooperation between different competences in the field of sport to reduce health costs due to sedentary lifestyles in children and older individuals. In fact, the ultimate goal of future research actions will include intervention strategies at national and international levels to enhance the continuous lifelong involvement in sport activities in the general population.
