european college of sport science

Welcome
On behalf of The European College of Sport Science (ECSS) and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NSSS), I am delighted to welcome
you to Oslo for the 14th annual ECSS Congress.
The Congress theme is ’Sport Sciences: Nature, Nurture and Culture’. Sport is a complex phenomenon that includes most dimensions of
human life. The complete study of human activity in sport must build on a diversity of scientific approaches. The 14th Annual Congress
programme feature theoretical, applied and cross-diosciplinary sport studies as well as research findings based on the natural, behavioural,
social and human scientific disciplines.
The scientific programme is composed of more than 1.400 abstracts which were accepted after careful review by the scientific committee
of the ECSS and the local scientific committee of the NSSS. The strong interest in this year’s Congress underlines the growth and increasing
significance of the ECSS as an interdisciplinary forum for ongoing debate. The presented abstracts comprise not only all relevant sport
science subdisciplines and themes but also all continents and 79 different nations. The abstracts are distributed among four Plenary
Sessions, 36 Invited Symposia, 74 Oral Sessions, and four Poster Sessions with more than 870 posters.
Oslo is the capital of Norway and is situated at the head of Oslo fjord surrounded by forested ridges. The city is unique, a city surrounding
a sea inlet with mountains as a backdrop. Apart from the scientific programme features, I encourage you to enjoy Oslo and take advantage
of our social programme with various sight seeing options, exercise and training possibilities and a closing banquet in the beautiful
natural surroundings of the NSSS.
On behalf of the ECSS and the Oslo team I wish you all a pleasant and productive stay in Oslo!
Sigmund Loland
Congress President
OSLO/NORWAY, JUNE 24-27, 2009 5