| Foreword | No.43 January 2005 |
Message of the President |
As 2005, the United Nations International Year of Sport and Physical Education begins, ICSSPE looks forward to welcoming new Board members who were recently elected at the General Assembly in Thessaloniki on August 6th. We again extend our thanks to all outgoing members of ICSSPE’s Executive Board and Associations’ Board, and we are looking forward to continued collaboration as we work on world-wide activities with regard to sport, physical education and sport science. One of the highlights of activity in 2004 has been the "Role of Physical Education and Sport in Education" (SpinEd) project. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Richard Bailey and funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a world-wide project was carried out which studied the importance of sport and physical education in education. The results are highly interesting and very encouraging. I recommend to all of you to take note of these findings and share with us your comments and recommendation. The full report will be published in the May issue of the Bulletin. Another project of ICSSPE, also funded by the IOC, is the history of the Paralympic Movement, written by Dr. Steve Bailey. The full manuscript will be published in 2005, to be another milestone document many of us have waited for so long. Following the UNESCO World Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials responsible for physical education and sport (MINEPS III) in 1999 in Punta del Este (Uruguay) and the Ministers’ round-table in 2003 in Paris (France), MINEPS IV was held in Athens from December 6-8. Important issues were discussed, including new initiatives in the fight against doping and how to ensure quality physical education in all parts of the world. The recommendations from this event can be found in the Partners and Events section of this Bulletin. Since the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2005 as the International Year of Sport and Physical Education, ICSSPE and its over 260 member organisations and institutions have been involved in the preparation of initiatives and events for 2005. We do this in close cooperation with Mr Adolf Ogi, the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, for sport for development and peace. We all have a great responsibility for taking this unique opportunity to contribute to this special year and we must make sure that the important role that physical education and sport can play with regard to education, health, development and peace is made better known in the general public and that our efforts in this respect will lead to new and sustainable developments on international, national and local levels. I encourage you all to develop and implement plans and to share with us many of the examples of good practice. Finally I would like to thank Tamara Devine who has been working at the ICSSPE office in Berlin as ICSSPE’s Publications and Scientific Affairs Manager. It was a great privilege to have such a competent and committed expert with us and we hope to continue collaboration with Tamie, although in a different way. As I advised in my previous Bulletin message, at the end of 2004 the Chair of ICSSPE’s Editorial Board, Prof. Dr. Jan Borms, completed his term. We extend our most sincere thanks to him for his continued support over nearly forty years, his hard work to identify relevant topics for ICSSPE’s publications and for leading the Editorial Board in such a brilliant and empowering manner. We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Darlene Kluka, who commenced as the new Editorial Board Chair on January 1st and who will undoubtedly step up to the challenge with all her competence, vibrancy and enthusiasm. Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper President, ICSSPE http://www.icsspe.org/portal/bulletin-january2005.htm Message of the President - English