On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health, the WHO CC for Physical Activity and Public Health has compiled comprehensive surveys on the promotion of physical activity in Germany.
In addition to the analysis on the promotion of physical activity among children and adolescents published in 2022, ...
On the 1st of February, we have started a new project the NEBB-Update: Updating and Further Developing the National Recommendations for Physical Activity and Physical Activity Promotion that is funded by the German Ministry of Health.
Physical activity is essential for health – but which recommen...
The 19th Meeting of the EU Physical Activity Focal Points Network took place in Brussels on 22-23 February. The aim of this collaborative effort was to foster knowledge exchange and strategic discussions to bolster physical activity promotion and policy monitoring throughout the region.
At the me...
Researchers from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health are collaborating with Dominik Bantle (league head) and Frank Grimm (head coach of the youth selection team) from the American Football Federation Hesse (www.afvh.de) to explore ways to reduce travel in Flag Footba...
Researchers from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health have increased efforts to engage the scientific community, policy-makers and sports organisations in discussions on how to promote physical activity in a sustainable way.
In 2023, Karim Abu-Omar (Co-Director of ...
Germany's Federal Ministry of Health published a policy brief "Physical Activity Promotion for Children and Adolescents in Germany".
Sports scientists from the WHO Collaborating Center for Physical Activity and Public Health at the Department of Sport Science and Sport (DSS) were tasked by the ...
Researchers from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health have published two scientific articles in the European Journal of Public Health. The articles were written in collaboration with staff of the WHO Regional Office for Europe and appear in the journal’s special issue...
The 17th Meeting of the EU Physical Activity Focal Points Network took place in Nice (France) on 30 August 2022. Its goal was to support the alignment of physical activity policymaking and physical activity research in Europe. Scheduled as a pre-conference event to the 2022 Congress of the HEPA Euro...
The World Health Organization has redesignated the WHO Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) for Physical Activity and Public Health at FAU's Department of Sport Science and Sport until March 2026. The Department was first designated as a WHO CC in 2014, and is one of only three Collaborating Centres that a...
Dr. Karim Abu-Omar was invited by the French Ministry of Sport (under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union) to the European Parliament for a conference "Towards a green and sustainable deal for sport". He participated as a speaker in the round table on the impacts of sport on...
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