ICSSPE Executive Board Endorses CEREPS Post-Covid-19 Recommendations for Action

ICSSPE’s Executive Board Members have endorsed the European Council of Research in Physical Education & Sport (CEREPS) Consensus Statement of Physical Education and School Sport for Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe – Recommendations for Actions. It also endorsed the scientific background paper for the recommendations.

Authors on behalf of CEREPS of both papers which were published in August 2022, are Roland Naul, Siobhán O`Neill, Francis Ries & Fiona Chambers.

According to the results of the empirical outcome of COVID-19 studies across Europe

by CEREPS on children, adolescence, young adults and their related care takers

in family life, schools and sport clubs, the CEREPS scientific background paper

identified at least ten recommendations for actions to take for recovery from the

COVID-19 pandemic. Six of the ten actions are related to proceeding with physical

education (PE) and school sports during the ongoing pandemic. The remaining four

actions are related to activities for recovering and building better PE and school sports

after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Consensus Statement presents the recommendations for actions as a part of COVID-19 studies reviewed in the scientific background paper. For each action special stakeholders are selected and addressed for whom the actions concern. The research team also identified ten target groups are: children, adolescents, young adults, parents, school principals, PE teachers, volunteers, coaches, scholars, and policy makers.

The papers are available for download in the ICSSPE Scientific Resource Section and below: