COVID-19 and the Quality of Physical Education

Volume I of the new CEREPS BOOK SERIES comprises high value presentations of recent CEREPS Summits (Hungary-Budapest 2020; Slovakia-Bratislava 2021, and Ireland-Cork 2022). All three summits referred to different meanings, dimensions and aspects of the topic "Quality Physical Education" from national and international perspectives documented by umbrella organisations (i.e. OECD, UNESCO, WHO, FIEPS, EUPEA). The Hungarian School Sport Federation hosted the Summit in 2020 when the Corona pandemic already affected the status of school-based physical education (PE) and school sports with two important waves of lockdowns in 2020 and early 2021. Not surprisingly, at the Bratislava Summit in October 2021, the topic of the crisis in PE impacted by COVID-19 dominated the agenda with review reports in how far national health and education policies stopped regularly teaching in PE and school sports. The effect of Covid-19 on PE and indoor physical activity and outdoor school settings were reported from different national countries across Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain), and from a comparative European perspective. The Bratislava Summit was hosted by FIEPS Europe and the Comenius University. To counteract the clash downs of PE at school, a steering committee was set up in Bratislava to develop a CEREPS consensus statement on how to recover PE during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. One major topic of the following Summit in Cork (2022) were workshops to document the many aspects of the CEREPS consensus statement with actions to restore the former quality status of PE at European schools from a student`s, PE teachers`, parents` and scholarly point of view. The anthology is divided into three parts according to the main topics of the Summits.

Band I der neuen CEREPS-BUCHSERIE enthält hochwertige Präsentationen der jüngsten CEREPS-Gipfel (Ungarn-Budapest 2020, Slowakei-Bratislava 2021 und Irland-Cork 2022). Alle drei Gipfeltreffen