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MOVE Quality call for applications
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Are you running a physical activity initiative for hard-to-reach populations in your community?
Do you want to enhance the quality of your initiative, but don’t know how?
Experts in your field are waiting to help you move your initiative forward and reward you for it…
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MOVE Transfer call for applications
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Are you offering a successful physical activity initiative for hard-to-reach populations in your sport organisation or local community?
Would you like to transfer it to another setting or location in your country?
We invite you to apply to be part of MOVE Transfer, a process that will assist you in developing your initiative, leading to the transfer or scale-up of the initiative within a national context.
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StreetGames reveals “UK’s £53bn Inactivity Time Bombâ€
Young inactive people in the UK aged between 11 and 25 are carrying an enormous threat to their nation on their shoulders – and they don’t even know it. It’s called the “Inactivity Time Bombâ€, which was revealed this month by ISCA member StreetGames as a growing problem that will cost the UK economy £53bn over the course of the youths’ lifetimes. StreetGames new report, “Inactivity Time Bomb: The economic cost of physical inactivity in young peopleâ€, highlights that high inactivity levels among socially disadvantaged groups, including low income earners, girls/women and ethnic minorities, are in desperate need of attention and action to help deactivate the bomb.
Access the full report here
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Health kinesiology symposium to develop South-East European syllabus
ISCA Vice President Prof. Herbert Hartmann from the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) will be one of six invited speakers at the 7th Conference on Kinesiology’s Satellite Symposium in Opatija, Croatia, on 24 May 2014. The satellite symposium aims to create awareness of and address the need for a collaboration to be established between the public health system and kinesiology, the study of human movement, in South-Eastern Europe. It encourages stakeholders from health and kinesiology to attend and contribute to developing a syllabus of health kinesiology as an international postgraduate study, primarily for students from South-East European countries. Online registration is open until 22 May.
Read the full announcement here
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ISCA member story of the month
New ISCA member brings school sport back in Sierra Leone
Last decade the Government of Sierra Leone banned school sport activities because they were often marred by violence and sometimes death. In 2010, new ISCA member Sport for Development and Peace Sierra Leone (SDP SL) decided to step in and find a solution to this barrier to sport and physical activity for young people. By 2011 the government’s ban was lifted. Tima Brewah tells ISCA how SDP SL helped turn this situation around.
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