2/8/2010

The POIN-Conference

Physical activity and sport require adequate environments!

Indoor and outdoor sports facilities, as well as infrastructures for self-organized physical activity such as parks, lanes or open landscape are major resources for physical activity and sport all over Europe.

On the one hand, attitude towards physical activity has changed dramatically across all ages, becoming broader and a lot more differentiated – therefore challenging to adapt facilities for physical activity and sport. On the other hand, infrastructures for physical activity and sport are outworn and in urgent need for renovation and modernization. Management and operating issues need updating.

How to improve infrastructure for physical activity and sport?
What are good practice examples of policies and instruments for infrastructure development for physical activity and sport in Europe and worldwide?
How to coordinate health promotion and infrastructure development?

POIN2010 provides answers!

POIN2010 will deal with those questions and challenges. This conference presents new EU-guidelines on improving infrastructures for physical activity and sport. These guidelines were developed in the EU-project IMPALA. Examples of good practice will be put up for discussion at the event from European as well as from non-European countries.

The POIN2010-Conference will offer opportunities for exchange of experience and information to policy makers and key stakeholders in fields such as sport, health, urban and spatial planning.

Key objectives of the conference are:

International symposium for decision makers and key stakeholders in politics and fields such as sport, health, urban and spatial planning, environment, tourism, economy etc.
Presentation and discussion forum for good practice in infrastructure development for leisure-time physical activity and sport.
Adoption of a position paper with criteria of good practice in infrastructure development for leisure-time physical activity and sport.

Programme

Nov. 8th, 2010 | 12:00 - 18:30

9:00 - 12:00 Arrival, Lunch, Welcome Coffee

12:00 - 12:30 OPENING
Markus Frank, City Councillor of Sports, City of Frankfurt/M.
Walter Schneeloch, Vice-President, DOSB

12:30 - 16:30 PLENARY SESSION

12:30 - 13:30 | EU-Guidelines to improve infrastructures for
physical activity and sports
Alfred Rütten, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg

13:30 - 14:30 | WHO and Physical Activity Promotion
Lideke Middelbeek, WHO Copenhagen (tbc)
| EU Physical Activitiy Guidelines, Jacob Kornbek, European
Commission - DG Education and Culture Sport Unit

14:30 - 15:15 Good Practice in Policies for Infrastructures
National Action Plan on Physical Activity, Directorate of
Health (Norway)
"El Anillo" and "Young Factory", Carlos Javier Rodríguez
Jiménez, Regional Minister of Extremadura (Spain)
The policy of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) in the
area of sport development planning, Andreas Klages, DOSB (Germany)
Experiment Healthy Neighbourhoods, Annelies Acda,
Municipal Health Department Amsterdam (Netherlands)

15.15 - 16:00 Good Practice in Developing Infrastructures
Cycling and Health - the Austrian National Plan on Cycling,
Helmut Koch, komobile - klima.aktiv (Austria)
Integrated Sports Development, Sports Department
Frankfurt (Germany)

16:00 Coffee Break & Poster Sessions

16.30 - 18:30 WORKSHOP SESSION
Development of infrastructures for physical activity and sport
Planning | Financing | Building | Management

Common evening event (Included in the conference fees)
Depot 1899 - Wirtshaus | Frankfurt
Textorstraße 33, D-60594 Frankfurt/Main

Nov. 9th, 2010 | 9:00 - 13:30

9:00 - 10:30 PLENARY SESSION
Transatlantic Experiences in built environment and
physical activity promotion
Abby King, Stanford University, USA

10:30 Coffee Break & Poster Sessions

11:00 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION
Australian and Pacific perspectives and transferability
of approaches
Neville Owen, University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia

12:45 - 13:30 PLENARY SESSION
Final Paper on Good Practice Criteria
Alfred Rütten, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg

13:30 Lunch, Farewell and Goodbye

The language of the conference is English.