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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTHINESS AND 
FITNESS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

Magdeburg, Germany, 12th–15th September 2018

The 2018 version of the international scientific conference on Health Across Life-
span (HAL) organised by the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the Cen-
tre of Neurodegenerative Diseases Magdeburg together with the European Group for 
Research into Elderly and Physical Activity (EGREPA) was a great success. Not only 
because it attracted about 160 participants of 22 different nationalities from Africa, 
Asia, Europe, North- and South-America. But actually because it was a well-organised 
and very informative conference.

The key note lectures comprised Marcela González Gross’ Fitness and Lifestyle in 
Middle Life; Kirk Erickson’s Effects of Exercise on Brain and Cognition; Rado Pišot’s 
Bed Rest Model for Studying Physical and Cognitive Decline; Gerd Kempermann’s 
The Neurobiology of Individualised Brain Aging; and Matthieu Lenoir’s Motor Com-
petence and Childhood Obesity, which altogether indicate the red-line of the conferen-
ce, with the speakers giving excellent updates on the current status of these topics and 
their work.

Further, the audience could attend the invited symposia Motor Training, Mobility 
and Cognition (two separate sessions organised by EGREPA), and Cognitive-Motor 
Interactions across the Lifespan, and in three parallel sessions indulge in the oral pre-
sentations that ranged from the topics on Healthy Aging to Social Aspects of Health 
and Physical Activity. Additionally, two extensive poster sessions and workshops (e.g. 
shiatsu and various dances) gave a more hands-on character to the conference.

Further detailed information on the content of the lectures and posters can be found 
on (https://www.hal2018.de/index.php?id=20908).

We certainly hope that the conference will be again held in 2021, thus becoming 
triennial; the previous version in 2015 was entitled Active Healthy Aging (its report 
can be read in Annales Kinesiologiae 2015, vol 6 (2): 155-156), as this event is highly 
recommended for all the researchers or clinicians from the field of motor development, 
studying the effects of physical activity and cognitive-functional exercise for all ages.

Cécil Meulenberg and Uroš Marušič

https://www.hal2018.de/index.php?id=20908
http://ojs.zrs.upr.si/index.php/AK/article/view/104/127


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MEDNARODNA KONFERENCA O ZDRAVJU IN TELESNI 
PRIPRAVLJENOSTI V ŽIVLJENJSKI DOBI 

Magdeburg, Nemčija, 12.–15. september 2018

Letošnja mednarodna znanstvena konferenca o zdravju v celotnem življenjskem 
obdobju ('Health Across Lifespan' HAL 2018), ki sta jo organizirala Univerza Otto von 
Guericke Magdeburg in Center za nevrodegenerativne bolezni Magdeburg skupaj z 
Evropsko skupino za raziskave starejših in gibalno/športno aktivnost ('European Group 
for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity' EGREPA), je bila izvedena zelo uspe-
šno. Ne le zato, ker je pritegnila približno 160 udeležencev 22 različnih narodnosti iz 
Afrike, Azije, Evrope ter Severne in Južne Amerike, ampak tudi zato, ker je bila dobro 
organizirana in zelo informativne narave.

Vabljena predavanja so udeležencem predstavili predavatelji: Marcela González 
Gross 'Fitness and lifestyle in middle life'; Kirk Erickson 'Effects of exercise on brain 
and cognition'; Rado Pišot 'Bed rest a model for studying physical and cognitive decli-
ne'; Gerd Kempermann 'The neurobiology of individualised brain aging'; in Matthieu 
Lenoir 'Motor competence and childhood obesity'. Naslovi plenarnih predavanj naka-
zujejo rdečo nit konference, predavatelji pa so v njih odlično podali povzetke najnovej-
ših ugotovitev na svojih raziskovalnih področjih.

Poleg plenarnih predavanj so se udeleženci konference lahko udeležili vabljenih 
simpozijev z naslovi: 'Motor training, mobility and cognition' (dve različni sekciji orga-
nizirani s strani EGREPA-e), 'Cognitive-motor interactions across the lifespan', in treh 
vzporednih sekcij prestavitev, ki so zajemale tematike od 'zdravega staranja' do 'social-
nih vidikov zdravja' in 'gibalne/športne aktivnosti'. Organizirani sta bili tudi dve sekciji 
s predstavitvami plakatov in delavnice (npr. Shiatsu in različni plesi), ki so konferenci 
dale bolj praktičen značaj.

Podrobnejše informacije o vsebini predavanj in predstavitvah plakatov so dostopne 
preko spletnega naslova: https://www.hal2018.de/index.php?id=20908.

Vsekakor upamo, da bo ta predvidoma trienalna konferenca (predzadnja, z naslo-
vom Aktivno zdravo staranje in za katero dostopno poročilo v Annales Kinesiologiae 
2015, vol. 6 (2): 155-156, je potekala leta 2015), organizirana tudi 2021. Znanstvena 
konferenca je namreč zelo priporočljiva za vse raziskovalce ali zdravnike/medicinske 
delavce, ki delajo na področjih gibalnega razvoja in/ali raziskujejo učinke gibalne/
športne aktivnosti in kognitivno-gibalne vadbe v vseh starostnih obdobjih. 

Cécil Meulenberg in Uroš Marušič

https://www.hal2018.de/index.php?id=20908
http://ojs.zrs.upr.si/index.php/AK/article/view/104/127
http://ojs.zrs.upr.si/index.php/AK/article/view/104/127

