EduPASS Symposium part of the CIAPSE Congress 2025 in Zurich
The Erasmus+ project EduPASS (Education for Physical Activity and Sport: Informal and Non-formal Settings), which was successfully completed in 2024, was presented at the 2025 CIAPSE Congress at the PH Zurich at the beginning of September. The presentation by the EduPASS partners fitted in perfectly with the conference theme “Holistic approaches to childhood development: Exploring motor, social-emotional and cognitive development and their interactions.” Prof. Roland Naul (CEREPS), Prof. Francis Ries (University of Seville), and Dr. Sebastian Brückner (WGI) presented the key steps and results of the EduPASS project, such as the online teaching platform and the handbook for implementing and using the platform’s content, to an interested audience of experts from all over Europe as part of the Invited EduPASS Symposium. The competence-oriented professional profiles and teaching content aimed at quality assurance in the training of educators in the context of movement, play, and sports in childhood and adolescence, which the EduPASS partners presented, fit very well with the conference goals of promoting a more holistic approach to research and knowledge transfer in the context of child development, which also takes into account the importance of cognitive, socio-emotional, and academic aspects.
Roland Naul and Francis Ries were also involved as CEREPS representatives in the selection and awarding of the CEREPS–sponsored Young Scholar Award. Alethea Jerebine from Deakin University (Australia)/Coventry University (UK) was honored for her work “Exploring Risk in Children’s Active Physical Play in Schools: As Safe as Possible or as Safe as Necessary?”