The current challenges in a healthy lifestyle and its political support, nutrition, and the influence of the environment on movement activity were debated at the annual International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) conference, whose co-organiser was the Faculty of Physical Culture. One of the largest academic events on this specialisation, it attracted more than 1300 experts from all over the world.
The hectic four-day programme in the Congress Centre in Prague featured lectures by experts such as British epidemiologist Sir Andrew Haines and Bruce Y. Lee of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The interesting array of lectures, symposia, and poster presentations was complemented with several workshops dealing with the prevention of cancer and the electronic healthcare system eHealth.
Representatives of the UP Faculty of Physical Culture introduced their own scientific projects, among others Jana Pelclová, Zdeněk Hamřík, Josef Mitáš, and Michal Vorlíček. The category of Young Researchers was dominated by Lukáš Rubín, who was selected by the evaluation board out of 140 applicants to present his talk. “It was a great honour for me. I presented an overview of the most important findings from the Czech research called IPEN Adolescent, which investigates the associations between a developed environment and physical activity in Czech children and youths. I must thank all my colleagues from the Czech IPEN Working Group, without whom the final work would never have been done. This is a success for the whole team,” said Lukáš Rubín.
“The conference was a success. It was not only a very nice event, but also a professionally stimulating one. And that is not only my opinion, there were many foreign guests who said the same. The organising team under the leadership of Ferdinand Salonna deserves congratulations and big thanks, not only because they have managed to introduce this prestigious conference into the Czech Republic, but also because they’ve managed to run it so smoothly,” he added.
Part of the programme were also several satellite events in Olomouc, including an educational course on the evaluation of the effectivity of programmes and inroads to a healthy lifestyle, and a meeting of the research group INTUE – International Network of Time-Use Epidemiologists. The Baroque premises of the UP Arts Centre hosted the conference Are V4 Living Actively?, where the impact of the environment on movement activities was debated.