Dr. Antonis Kambas,

Department of Physical Education and Sport Science
Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

1. Visions & Aims of OCARIoT

• Dr Leire Bastida
  Project Manager & Programmes Responsible eServices
  TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Spain
• Ana Moya Cañas
  Project Manager & Researcher
  TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Spain

2. Technical Solutions of OCARIoT

• Dr Konstantinos Votis
  Researcher, Director Visual Analytics Laboratory
  Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece
• Dr Andreas Triantafyllidis
  Research Associate
  Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

3. Implementing OCARIoT in Real School Settings

• Kostas Soutos
  Physical Education Teacher, Head Department of Physical Education
  Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), Greece
• Thomas Fischer
  Educational Psychologist & Senior Researcher
  Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), Greece

4. Assessing & Evaluating Physical Activitiy of Children & Teenagers

• Antonis Kambas
  Department of Physical Education and Sport Science
  Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Klearchos Panousis
  Physical Education Teacher, Deputy Head Department of Physical Education
  Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), Greece

Smart childhood Obesity CARing solution using IoT potential

Child obesity is the major paediatric public health concern affecting around 224 million school-aged children in the world. Its prevalence has tripled in many European countries since 1980, still increasing in an alarming rate. More than one in three school-aged children in Brazil, Greece and Spain are overweight or are affected by obesity.

Thus, the main goal of OCARIoT (i.e. smart childhood Obesity CARing solution using IoT potential) is to promote the improvement of eating and physical behaviours and the prevention of the obesity onset for children between 9 and 12 years old.

For doing so, OCARIoT develops an Internet of Things (IoT)-based personalised coaching solutions based on a Decision Support System (DSS) guiding children to improve healthy eating and physically active lifestyles. The IoT network will allow observing child activity patterns of daily living, health evolution, physiological and behavioural parameters as well as environmental data. OCARIoT offers an open Dashboard for educators and parents systematically compiling information from various self-reflection tools and IoT sources and an interactive App for children to motivate and encourage children in order to commit them to follow-up their personalised coaching plans.

The workshop will explore first the underlying visions and aims of OCARIoT, second gives an hands- and brains-on experience of the technical solutions of the project, third describes the implementation of OCARIoT in real school settings and finally describes state-of-the-art methods to assess and evaluate physical activities of children and teenagers.

“MissionX: Train like an astronaut” (MX: TLA), an international educational challenge.

Styliani Karakiriou

STS DPESS, DUTH

1. Athina Primikiri, ΜΧ Country Lead for Greece, MX:TLA

The philosophy of the educational challenge MX:TLA

2. Konstantinos Soutos PE11, Ellinogermaniki Agogi
3. Maria Soultogianni, PE70, Madoulides Educators

MX: TLA, purposes and aims in Education

4. Marina Molla, PE70, Dimitra Doloma, PE11, 9^th Primary School of Komotini
5. Vasiliki Psaridou, PE70, Minority School of Doko

MX: TLA, interdisciplinary teaching in physical education

6. Filippos Groudos, PE11, 18^th Primary School of Xanthi
7. Michalis Rantos, PE70, 8^th Primary School of Komotini

Educational activities of MX: TLA in primary school

“Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut”, created by NASA, is an international educational challenge that focuses on the physical fitness and nutrition of students by encouraging them to “train like an astronaut”. It is a modern, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to teaching physical education, in which targeted activities are organized with a focus on exercise as a means of improving and promoting a healthy way of living. During the implementation of this program, teams of students from all over the world learn about the principles of healthy eating and sports by competing with each other. At the same time they complete activities and they get enthusiastic about exploring space as well as with their own educational future prospects in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM). In addition, students practice in scientific reasoning and team work by participating in specific assignments, which have the same aims as the analytic teaching programmes and the interdisciplinary unified curriculum framework of compulsory education. The purpose of this workshop is to present the implementation of this project and to promote it to the broader educational and scientific community.

Friday 15.05.2020

Kellis E., Tryfonidis M.

Malliou P.,¹ Beneka A.,¹ Gioftsidou A.,¹ Kellis E.,² Kofotolis Ν.,² Tryfonidis M.,³ Arsenis S.,⁴ Zayfsev T.Y. ⁵ 

¹Democritus University of Thrace

²Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Serres

³Sport Medicine Association of Cyprus

⁴Xanthi FC

⁵Football Academy Plovdiv

Preventive Outreach Through Exercise and Counseling Techniques in Soccer (PROTECTS) is an innovative project (Erasmus+ Sport) that developed by academics, clinical experts and athletic/soccer trainers and players coming from different countries of Europe in order to PROTECT athletes, especially the youngest, from health and safety hazards in the “soccer field”. Its main goal was to identify the gaps in the strategies used for the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries in soccer and in the counselling and communication skills that are needed in order to motivate the coaches and players in a safer participation to soccer and sports, and to propose certain strategies for physical (e.g. specific exercise drills) and mental preparation in order to contribute at the reduction of preventable musculoskeletal diseases during training and games. PROTECTS platform contain learning and assessment tools suitable for athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, and sport physiotherapists, in order to guide them on how to effectively integrate the strategies proposed in their daily training processes and during games and competition.

Kosta George1, Professor, D.P.E.S.S. D.U.Th.

Afthinos Ioannis, Professor
Koustelios Athanasios, Professor
Kouthouris Charilaos, Professor
Theodorakis Nikolaos, Associate Professor
Tzetzis George, Professor

¹Democritus University of Thrace
² National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
³ University of Thessaly
⁴Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The round table will try to answer the following questions:

a)      What abilities and skills should the physical education graduates should have  (major Sport Management, Sport Tourism, and Recreation)?

b)      What are the needs of the “sport market” and how the graduates can be more competitive in the job searching ?

c)       What are the conclusions of the Erasmus Plus project: Curriculum Building, the Future of Sport Management in Europe?

Dr. Evangelos Bebetsos, Department of Physical Education & Sport Science, Democritus University of Thrace

Nicos Andreopoulos^, Secretary General of “ENALMH” Network

Creation, goals and actions of the network

Komanthi Kouloutmpani, (MSc), Head of Physical Education and School Sports of Piraeus Directorate of Primary Education,

Physical activity and mental health

Dr. Christos Mouzakidis, Hellenic Association of Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders (Alzheimer Hellas)

InALMH Project: Conception, design and aims of the Action

Dr. Vasiliki Garopoulou, Scientific Collaborator at 1st Neurology DEPT – AHEPA University General Hospital, Scientific Collaborator at the Hellenic Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (Alzheimer Hellas)

InALMH Project: Implementation and expected results

The European Network for Active Living and Mental Health (ENALMH) was created as a result of the MENS Project (www.mensproject.eu) as part of the ERASMUS+ program. The main purpose of the Network is to promote a healthy and active lifestyle for people suffering from various mental illnesses through their involvement in sports, and organized physical activity.
In this context, ENALMH has submitted and received the approval of the European Commission to carry out and deliver the InALMH research project. The main objective of this project is to fill the gap between the general policies of Sports and Physical Integration in the broader context of Mental Health, through the active participation of people with mental illness in organized sports and physical activities. through the implementation of upgraded recommendations and directives of the European Commission.

ENalMH Network, its goals, members and actions will be presented in detail. At the same time it will be presented the InALMH Project, its design, the partners of the Program, its methodology, its final goals and the expected results of its implementation.

ENalMH: European Network of Active Living and Mental Health

InALMH: Inter-Active Living for Mental Health

Ilias Smilios and Athanasios Chatzinikolaou
Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Physiology of Exercise
Mail: info@eevfa.gr

Presenters: I. Smilios¹, P. Botonis², A. Kabasakalis³, N. Zaras⁴

¹Democritus University of Thrace, School of Physical Education & Sport Science

² National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Physical Education & Sport Science

³Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Physical Education & Sport Science at Thessaloniki

⁴Nicosia University, School of Science and Engineering, Department of Life and Health Science

• Ilias Smilios, Indices of training load evaluation
• Petros Botonis, Management of training load in team sports: from theory to reality
• Athanasios Kabasakalis, Evaluation and interpretation of biochemical indices of training load
• Nikos Zaras, Management of training load for the annual planning in individual sports