On 18 and 19 March 2014 our EU project “Fit for Life Europe” to encourage physical exercise among older people came to a close with a conference in the Stuttgart Town Hall. At the same time the project team (partners from Bologna, Extremadura, Limoges, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Warsaw) presented the result of this project process – the guide “Promoting exercise among senior citizens in European municipalities”. During these two days experts, as well as local hands-on practitioners from all over Europe, reported on the background situation and solutions and discussed and exchanged their experience.
Programme
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
from 08:30 Accreditation
09:00 Welcoming speeches
Opening: Mayor Fritz Kuhn
Alfons Hörmann, President of the German Olympic Commitee
10:00 Introduction
Dr. Monika Köster
Federal Centre for Health Education (Germany)
10:30 Initiative presentation
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred RĂĽtten
University of Erlangen
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Do we have a blind spot for the importance of physical activity in older people? A struggle for healthy living
Prof. Dr. Marijke Hopman- Rock
European Network for Action ond Ageing and Physical Activity (EUNAAPA)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Poster Session
14:30 Developing an European Dimension in Sport
Representative of the European Commision tbc
15:00 EU Project Fit For Life
Project Representative
15:30 Parallel workshops
Workshop 1
HEPA Framework Europe
Carolin Barz, Capital city Stuttgart, Department for sport and movement
Elisa Saccinto, University of Bologna
Workshop 2
Information / Communication
Prof. Luca Pietrantoni
Workshop 3
Networks
Lena Knorr, Capital city Stuttgart, Department for sport and movement
With partners of the regional gouvernment of Extremadura and the city of Limoges
Workshop 4
Education / Knowledge
Prof. Herbert Hartmann and Pia Pauly from DTB (German Gymnastic Federation)
Workshop 5
HEPA Framework, Baden- WĂĽrttemberg
Dr. Christoph Rott, Dr. Torben Sammet
Workshop 6
Effective fall prevention: The exercises that work
Prof. Dr. Dawn Skelton
Workshop 7
Action plan "physical activity promotion of elderly"
Prof. Dr. Michael Kolb
approx. 17:30 End of the workshops
from 19:30 Reception in the multigenerational house in Stuttgart Heslach
Greeting Werner Wölfle, Mayor for general administration and hospitals
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
09:00 Practical visits on site
1 Robert Bosch Hospital, tbc
2 Sport in the park
3 Senior fitness test introduction
11:00 Arrival city hall and coffee
11:15 Results of the workshops
12:15 Geriatric aspects on healthy ageing
Prof. Dr. Clemens Becker
Geriatric rehabilitation, Robert Bosch Hospital
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Exercise to prevent falls: practical implementation
Prof. Dr. Dawn Skelton
Glasgow Caledonian University
14:15 Healthy ageing in the city
Antonio Borgogni
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
14:45 Coffee break
15:15 Implementation of health enhancing physical activity in the city
Prof. Dr. Michael Kolb
15:45 HEPA Handbook Presentation
Project representative
16:00 Official handover of the HEPA Handbook by the representatives of the project to the European Commission and to the participants
Dr. Susanne Eisenmann, Mayor for Culture, Education and Sport
approx. 16:15 End of the Conference
The following speakers have confirmed their participation:
Professor Dawn Skelton is Professor of Ageing and Health at the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is a commissioned author for the World Health Organisation’s Health Evidence Network and the UK’s Department of Health.
She co-hosted the 8th World Congress on Active Ageing, August 2012 in Glasgow.
Since 2001, Alfred RĂĽtten is Director of the Institute of Sports Science (ISS), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
He is chair of the Department of Public Health and movement and holds a Chair of Sports Science. Previously, he was Professor of Sociology of Sport / Sport Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Research Professor of Sociology, University of Birmingham, and Visiting Professor of Public Health at Yale University.
Prof. emeritus dr. Marijke Hopman-Rock holds the chair for "Physical Activity and Health in Older Persons" at VU university medical center in Amsterdam. She also worked with TNO (the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientic Research) in Leiden.
Marijke is the past (founding) chair of the European Network for Action on Ageing and Physical Activity (EUNAAPA) and honorary member; past vice president of the European Group for Research on Elderly and Physical Activity (EUNAAPA); past co chair of the Aging Interest group of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM); past associate editor of the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity (JAPA, Human Kinetics) and BMC Public Health. She was also in the editorial board of Active Aging Today.
She studied Biology, Psychology, Statistics and Epidemiology
The conference venue can easily be reached by public transport. Starting at the main station take line 5, 6, 7 or 12, direction Leinfelden, Botnang, Ostfildern till Charlottenplatz, from where it is only a seven minutes walk to the city hall.
You might also take the bus No 43, 44, direction Westbahnhof or Killesberg that stop at the station "Rathaus".
Download your individual schedule here: www.vvs.de
Hotels in Stuttgart can be found under the following link:
State Capital Stuttgart
Department for Sports and Physical Activity
Nadlerstr. 4 70173 Stuttgart Germany
T +49 711 216-59812
info(at)citiesforsports.eu
