National Brain Awareness Week takes place from March 14th to 20th, 2022 The Dementia: Understand Together campaign, led by the HSE in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Age Friendly Ireland, Age & Opportunity, Healthy Ireland and the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre, is encouraging everyone to make simple changes to help maintain…
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The Walk21 Conference series is the leading conference on walking and walkability in the world. From London to Sydney, New York to Hong Kong, Bogota and Vancouver, great cities have made their communities better for walking and hosted the conference. Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), in partnership with the Government of Ireland, is proud to…
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The Secretariat of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport is pleased to announce its upcoming Consultative Committee webinar on Physical education (PE) and school sports: a creative approach to human rights and democracy. This webinar will take place online on Monday 21 February 2022 from 15:00 to 17:00 (CEST) and will bring together experts in…
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Integrating Exercise Practitioners into Outpatient Mental Health Services in Ireland: Evaluation and Service Model Launch 10am to 12pm 28th January 2022 Learn about the first evidence-based exercise practitioner role embedded in the Mental Health Services in County Wexford, as we talk through the results of this well needed programme. Platform: Zoom. Sign up with Eventbrite:…
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I-PARC Conference 2022 “Leveraging policy, programs, and research for a more active society in the wake of COVID-19” Just over a week to until I-PARC Conference 2022!! The conference will run from Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th January 2022 with daily keynote speakers and breakout sessions featuring expert speakers and a series of good practices…
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I-PARC Conference 2022 “Leveraging policy, programs, and research for a more active society in the wake of COVID-19” Members of I-PARC are hosting a virtual conference titled “Leveraging policy, programs, and research for a more active society in the wake of COVID-19”. The event will run from Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th January 2022 with…
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Sport Ireland today published the 2021 Irish Sport Monitor Interim Report Q3, which covers the months July-September this year and shows that participation in sport continued to rise throughout the year with numbers approaching pre-pandemic levels. In the third quarter of the year 43% of Irish people over the age of 16 years old took…
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A qualitative systematic review from I-PARC was published in the International Journal for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity in September 2021. The aim of the review was to report on facilitators and barriers of implementation for interventions which promote physical activity in community-based settings. A secondary aim was to provide recommendations to improve implementation identified…
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Great line-up of speakers for upcoming Exercise is Medicine Ireland and Physical Activity for Health, HRI Research Cluster, University of Limerick webinar, December 10th at 12pm. Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudeirpjkpEtLM88evuAnDdVAsi0CuPwdf
Sport Ireland Media Release December 7, 2021 Sport Ireland publishes Research Strategy 2021-2027 Sport Ireland today published its Research Strategy 2021-2027 which sets out the role of research in supporting Sport Ireland to achieve its organisational objective of delivering a world-class sports sector operating to the highest standards of governance and accountability and contributing towards…
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