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WHO Collaborating Centre @WHO_Europe | Department of Sport Science and Sport | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Tweets by @AntoninaTcymbal and @SvenMessing
Erlangen, Germany
Joined December 2021
❗ New publication ."What Policies Do Local Governments Use to Promote Physical Activity? A Comparative Analysis of Municipalities From 4 EU Countries and Japan".Read the full article here: .#healthpolicy #physicalactivity
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❗New project❗ .NEBB-Update: Updating and Further Developing the National Recommendations for Physical Activity and Physical Activity Promotion
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Kickoff for the NEBB-Update: Updating and Further Developing the National Recommendations for Physical Activity and Physical Activity Promotion Physical activity is essential for health – but which...
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RT @JoeyJMurphy: 🚨Does your role impact physical activity? Perhaps in government, not-for-profits, NGOs or academia? . 📢We want to hear f….
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Excited to announce that our commentary is now published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health!.
The JPAH Special Edition aims to address our most pressing global health challenges. This commentary prompts discussion around different views on the relationship between #physicalactivity & #climatechange & how future research could be guided accordingly
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We spent three amazing days at the @hepaeurope conference! Thanks to all colleagues for the intensive knowledge exchange and interesting discussions and to the organizers for the nice atmosphere!.See you all at #heppa2025
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🚨 The HEPA Conference is getting closer and closer!.Check out the attached pictures to see what sessions we have organized or will be participating in. See you soon in Dublin!.#hepa2024 #PhysicalActivity #PhysicalActivityPromotion #PhysicalActivityPolicy
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We are glad to have contributed to Sven Schneider's book on #climatechange as a health risk. It features 45 chapters from leading German experts. Our chapter discusses the negative impact of #sports on the #climate and how transforming the sport sector can reduce this impact.
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We are delighted to announce that the Co-Director of our Collaborating Centre, Karim Abu-Omar, has been invited to join the Journal of Physical Activity and Health as a Senior Assistant Editor.
Join us in welcoming Dr. Karim Abu-Omar as a JPAH Senior Associate Editor. His research at @UniFAU focuses on health promotion among vulnerable groups, reducing health inequalities, and physical activity and #PlanetaryHealth.
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RT @fiona_bull: WHO latest report shows 1/3 adults (1.8 billion) do not meet recommended levels of physical activity - this increases risk….
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We are glad that three colleagues from France visited us for an exchange about #physicalactivity and #health last week. Besides presenting their current research to FAU staff and PhD students, the visit focused on a BayFrance funded project on local physical activity policies
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We are happy to announce our participation in six symposiums at this year's HEPA conference. #PhysicalActivity #ActiveTransport #PlanetaryHealth #HumanRights #PhysicalActivityPolicy.Don't miss out on early bird registration, and we look forward to seeing you in Dublin!
🗓️Join us @RCSI_Irl in Dublin 🇮🇪 from Aug 19-21st for HEPA 2024 conference. 🐦Early Bird registration ends on May 15th🐦.Register here:
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Since last year, our team has been working with a computer scientist on optimizing travel distances in sports that will help reduce CO2 emissions, time and costs. Read more about our collaboration with the American Football Verband Hessen on our website
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The Department of Sport Science and Sport (DSS) at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) is one of more than 800 high-ranking academic institutions globally that support the World Health Organization…
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Last week we attended the European Union's Physical Activity Focal Points Network meeting. We were happy to present our recent research and to support WHO/Europe in facilitating a workshop for representatives of EU member states. #physicalactivity #PublicHealth
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RT @JPAHjournal: The concept of physical literacy (PL) has strongly influenced #physicalactivity research & policy, but has yet to include….
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Check our new publication where we mapped existing approaches of #physicalactivity #policy monitoring and analysed methodological aspects, especially with regards to the roles of governments and researchers.
Research- vs. government-driven physical activity policy monitoring: a systematic review across different levels of government
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RT @SvenMessing: Back at work after an intensive week in #Ireland with workshops and presentations at #EPH2023 in #Dublin and @PAfH_UL in #….
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If you are attending #MoveCongress by.@ISCA_tweet, don't miss our co-director Karim Abu-Omar's presentations on the links between #sport and #planetaryhealth
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Many thanks to our colleagues for providing us with the opportunity to discuss our concerns, challendges and expectations regarding #PhysicalActivity monitoring. We look forward to continuing our collaboration.
3rd meeting of Methodological Competence Platform for NCD surveillance in Dublin. Thanks Karim & @IRakovac for your leadership of PA work. Much work still to do but good progress has been made on understandability of PA & single-item questions.
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RT @JPAHjournal: 🔗 ✍️🏽 our latest editorial from @DrKatjaSiefken & Dr. Karim Abu-Omar invites researchers to examin….
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