Steering Committee members

These are the current Steering Committee Members of the EUNAAPA network who have been confirmed on 29 January 2009 at a project meeting in Luxembourg.

 

 

Christophe Delecluse


Contact details:

Departement Biomedische Kinesiologie

FaBeR-KULeuven

Tervuursevest 101, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

Christophe.Delecluse@faber.kuleuven.be

Tel: 016/32.90.76

 

 

 

Ellen Freiberger


Contact details:

Dr. Ellen Freiberger

Institut für Sportwissenschaft und Sport

Gebbertstr. 123b

91058 Erlangen, Germany

Ellen.Freiberger@sport.uni-erlangen.de

Tel. +49(0)9131-8525464

 

 

 

Marijke Hopman-Rock


CHAIR

Prof. Dr. Marijke Hopman-Rock is the founding chair (2005) of the European Network for Action on Ageing and Physical Activity (EUNAAPA).

Prof. Hopman-Rock is programme manager Physical Activity and Health of TNO Quality of Life (the Dutch Organization for Applied Sciences) in Leiden, the Netherlands. She is also co-director of the Body@Work Research Center, a co-operation between TNO and VU University Medical Center (VUMC) in Amsterdam. Since September 2008 she has been appointed at the VUMC as a special Professor in Physical Activity and Health of Older Persons.

 

Contact details:

Prof. Dr. Marijke Hopman-Rock

TNO Quality of Life

Wassenaarseweg 56

2301 CE Leiden, The netherlands

marijke.hopman@tno.nl

tel: +31 71 5181709

 

 

 

Nina Waaler-Loland


Contact details:

Nina Waaler Loland

PhD, Dean

Faculty of Health Sciences

Oslo University College, Norway

Nina-Waaler.Loland@hf.hio.no

Tel: + 47 45255055

 

 

 

Alfred Ruetten


* added to the SC as project coordinator of the PASEO project untill the end of the project (June 2011)

Prof. Dr. Alfred Rütten is the head of the department of sports science and sport of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was visiting research Professor at the Departments of Sociology and Medicine of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA), and visiting Professor of Public Health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, New Haven (USA).

Prof. Rütten has worked on cross-national research projects on physical activity surveillance in the European Union. Among them was the "European Physical Activity Surveillance System (EUPASS)" project that tested a physical activity surveillance system. He has also analyzed physical activity data of the Eurobarometer 58.2 for the European Commission, and is currently working on publications about Eurobarometer 63.4 data on physical activity data.

Prof. Rütten was coordinator of the EU funded "European Network for Action on Physical Activity and Ageing" project and is currently coordinating the EU funded projects "Improving Infrastructures for Leisure-Time Physical Activity in the Local Arena - Good Practice in Europe (IMPALA) and "Building Policy Capacities for Health Promotion through Physical Activity among Sedentary Older People (PASEO)".

Contact details:

Prof. Dr. Alfred Ruetten

Director of the Institute of Sport Science and Sport

Gebbertstr 123b

91058 Erlangen, Germany

alfred.ruetten@sport.uni-erlangen.de

Tel: 49 9131 85-25000

 

 

 

 

 

Federico Schena


Contact details:

prof. Federico Schena MD PhD

Dept. of Neuroscience & Faculty of Exercise and Sport Science

University of Verona, Italy

 federico.schena@univr.it

Tel: +39 045  8425143 

Center of Bioengineering and Sport Science

Rovereto, Italy

federico.schena@unitn.it

Tel: +39 0464 483521