ALTHOUGH THE BORDERS ARE DISPUTED, APEIRON GATHERED SCIENTISTS FROM 9 COUNTRIES

E-conference "Sports Sciences and Health" was held

The tenth international scientific conference "SPORT SCIENCES AND HEALTH" organized by the Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences was held online on June 24 and 25, 2020, via the Zoom application. This is the first conference at the Pan-European University organized without the physical presence of participants. The jubilee scientific meeting was officially opened by academician prof. Dr. Rajko Kuzmanović, President of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska.

About 115 scientific workers from Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Austria, Sweden, Italy, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina with 48 scientific and professional papers participated in the scientific meeting and contributed to current topics in the field of sports and of health.

The first keynote speaker was Dušan Mitić, a professor at the University of Belgrade, who spoke on the topic of "Supporting an active and healthy lifestyle".

Dr. Damir Knjaz, professor at the University of Zagreb, spoke about the topic "Physical activity, aging and health". On the second day of the conference, students' e-poster presentations were shown.

In a letter of support from the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the RS, the sponsor of this scientific meeting, it was announced that the "Sports Science and Health" conference was included in the ranking list of categorized meetings of the Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society of the Republic of Srpska as a scientific meeting with international participation . They point out that at the end of April 2020, the magazine "Sports Science and Health" was positively evaluated by "Scopus", the largest citation database for the European climate, and considering the respected lecturers and the topics covered, the ministry gave full support to the scientific conference.

"Thematic areas of the scientific meeting primarily deal with the connection between sport and human health. The organizing team had a big task - to organize the conference in a different way compared to last year, when we had about a hundred guests from various countries at the University. The comments of numerous participants and words of support tell us that we successfully realized the jubilee, tenth conference. Bearing in mind that some participants did not present their scientific papers in this way, a technical trial was held the day before the conference, and those who were unsure are now enthusiastically accepting the online communication system.", said prof. Dr. Velibor Srdić, President of the Conference Organizing Committee and Dean of the Faculty of Sports Sciences.

The co-organizers of the scientific meeting are the National Pedagogical University from Kazakhstan, the Lipetsk Pedagogical University from Russia, the Vocational School for Educating Teachers and Trainers, Subotica, the Faculty of Sports and Tourism, Novi Sad and the Gerlev Sports Academy, Denmark.

The conference is intended for physical education professors, sports trainers, doctors, pedagogues, psychologists, sports organizations, sports managers and other experts related to sports and health.

The conference was scheduled for March 13, 2020, and due to the epidemiological situation, it was held online.

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