Sixth annual meeting of HEPA Europe, 26 November 2010, Olomouc, Czech Republic

The 6th annual meeting of HEPA Europe, the European network for the promotion of Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) was kindly hosted Palacký University, Faculty of Physical Culture, Olomouc, Czech Republic on 26 November 2010. It included parallel sessions of four HEPA Europe working groups. At the annual meeting, progress made in HEPA Europe’s work programme for the previous year was presented.

Participants also discussed and adopted the work programme 2010/2011 and amendments to the Terms of Reference for HEPA Europe. In addition, 14 new membership applications were confirmed and the Steering Committee was elected. Finally, activities to be continued and future projects to be undertaken by HEPA Europe were discussed, including new activities on physical activity promotion and injury prevention and on workplace-related physical activity.This meeting was supported by the European Union in the framework of the Health Programme 2008-2013 (Grant Agreement 2009 52 02).

The 2nd HEPA Europe conference on “Health-enhancing Physical Activity in the 21st century: Environmental and social influences and approaches”, took place back-to-back with the annual meeting on 24-25 November 2010, featuring 8 key note lectures, 16 oral and 80 poster presentations.