WELCOME
TO THE 9th ELECTRONIC THENAPA NEWSLETTER
Message from the co-ordinators:
 Thenapa
is disseminating its results and products all over Europe and even
over the world at an Olympic pace.
After the meeting in Sofia last November, many initiatives were
realised to give the highest possible exposure of the results and
products of our Thematic Network in all European countries.
The second edition of the two reports “Inclusion
and Integration through Adapted Physical Activity” and “Vocational
Training in Adapted Physical Activity” was finished and booklets
with the summaries of those two reports were published in order
to present the information in a accessible way to the broader public.
Our CD-ROM ‘ADAPT’ was presented and disseminated during
many national and international conferences.
During these conferences many Thenapa colleagues
reported about the THENAPA results: this was the case in Oxford,
Freiburg, Berlin, Oslo, Clermont -Ferrand, Krakow, Hamburg, Thessaloniki,
and during the Erasmus Mundus preparatory meetings in Norway, Ireland
and Czech Republic.
H. Van Coppenolle represented
THENAPA during the Dr. Honoris causa Award of Jacques Rogge, the
IOC President in Warsaw.
We were even invited in New Delhi to present ADAPT
and to discuss its translation in Hindu. Steps were made as well
for a Russian translation.
At the same time our network was successful in
trying to boost the dissemination process by applying to other European
projects as the European year of Education through Sport.
This project gave us the possibility to translate ‘ADAPT’
besides English, French and German, in 12 more languages.
In this project also a new website is developed.” Sports
participation for inclusion of persons with a disability in European
Countries
The
European Research Bulletin produced its third issue.
And the last good news from the European Commission
came some weeks ago, telling us that our proposal for our next Thematic
Network "Ageing and disability - a new crossing between physical
activity, social inclusion and life-long well-being" (THENAPA
II) has been approved. and will start on 1st of October 2004.
So we are convinced that all our THENAPA colleagues
deserve the Olympic Medal for dissemination. Congratulations.
FLOK, Tervuurse Vest 101
B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee Fax: +32 16 32 91 96
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it and we are waiting for your comments and contributions for
the next Newsletter, which we will publish on a monthly basis.
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Prof. H. Van Coppenolle
Prof. J.C. De Potter,
THENAPA co-ordinators
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9th annual congress of the European College of Sport Science
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The 9th annual congress of the European
College of Sport Science in Clermont-Ferrand, France from 3rd
till 6th of July, 2004 was a step further in the dissemination of
the CD-ROM ADAPT. ADAPT was introduced to the public during a poster
presentation of 10 minutes.
Small brochures with the poster presentation were prepared and distributed
together with a significant number of CD-ROMs during the Congress
as well.
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The European collaboration for integration in practice: CD-ROM
“ADAPT” – a common European curriculum in
Adapted Physical Activity |
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 CD-ROM
ADAPT was presented during the Pre-Olympic Congress, organised by
ICSSPE from 6th to 11th of August 2004 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
This presentation added a lot to the world-wide popularisation of
ADAPT. A great interest was shown from colleagues from USA, Brazil,
Canada, Israel, South Korea.
Also the President of IPC Phil Craven, expressed his interest and
at the same time his great satisfaction of the product. It is our
common goal to increase the quality of life of individuals with
disabilities across their life-span through participation in quality
programmes of APA.
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THENAPA impact at the Pre-Olympic congress. |
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 During
the 11th Pre-Olympic Congress hold from 6th to 11th of August in
Thessaloniki, Greece a great number of presentations were related
or referring to THENAPA results.
The Austrian key-person Maria Dinold presented the THENAPA recommendations
for improvement of inclusion in physical education in Europe. The
key-person of Czech Republic Hana Valkova presented a real examples
of inclusive PE lessons. The Norwegian key-person Nina Kahrs presented
the recommendations for future work in the area of inclusion through
APA. The key-person of France Claire Boursier presented the situation
of inclusion in sports in Europe.
The Greek THENAPA key person Christina Evaggelinou
presented her study of the Athitudes toward integration of children
with disabilities: The effect of the implementation of the Paralympic
education material.
 Dissemination
beyond European partnership
The latest achievements and the progress of the dissemination process,
as well as all THENAPA products were presented to the President
of IFAPA Claudine Sherrill. She expressed her satisfaction of the
collaboration between THENAPA and IFAPA, because the adapted physical
activity and sport for persons with a disability are part of a global
international network, they do not only play an important role as
a professional fields, but contribute to developments in the society
in general.
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EYES encourages sports participation for inclusion of persons
with a disability |
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 The
project ‘Sports participation for inclusion of persons with
a disability in European Countries’ executed by the Catholic
University of Leuven (Belgium) is supported by the European
Year of Education through Sport 2004 (EYES). EYES is an initiative
of the European Union promoting the social and educational values
of sport. In order to promote sport and to compensate for the current
lack of information and educational materials in the domain of Adapted
Physical Activity (APA) and sports, the CD-ROM “ADAPT”
will be disseminated in 12 European languages, as well as a
website is developed within the framework of the European project
‘Sports participation for inclusion of persons with a disability
in European Countries’. 20 European countries are involved
in this project which is financially supported by EYES.
| EARAPA: Call
for papers for the new EARAPA Bulletin |
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European Bulletin Adapted Physical
Activity
Call for Papers
European Bulletin of Adapted
Physical Activity
Bulletin européen en activité physique adaptée
Europaisches Bulletin für Bewegung, Spiel und Sport in Rehabilitation
und bei Behinder
 We
are pleased to announce that since January 2003, the first issue
of the 'European
Bulletin Adapted Physical Activity' is available.
The Bulletin is an electronic journal that publishes
leading articles in English, French and German. Leading articles
can be
a) current opinion articles, addressing contentious or emerging
issues in the field of APA, or
b) comprehensive review articles that interpret and evaluate the
current literature to provide a rationale for and application of
research findings in the field of APA. Leading articles will normally
be by invitation of the Editorial Board; authors wishing to submit
a leading article are advised to consult the Editors before doing
so.
The Bulletin also publishes original and translated short communications
in English, French, and German. This section is created especially
to promote young researchers and to stimulate and help them in their
efforts to publish research reports. Master thesis students should
consider the Bulletin as a publication forum for their research
work.
Call for Papers
All manuscripts submitted to the Bulletin will
be reviewed anonymously by acknowledged experts in the subject;
at least two experts will be involved in this process. When preparing
manuscripts for publication in the 'European
Bulletin of Adapted Physical Activity', please adhere to the
guidelines available on the website. We look forward to receiving
your manuscripts.
Yves Vanlandewijck
Peter Van de Vliet
Editors-in-Chief
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