5^th International Week

9:00-10:00 | room B11/206 | Optimalisation of Elite athlete health and performance in the heat

This lecture will explain why heat presents a substantial—yet highly context- and athlete-specific—challenge to elite athlete health and performance. The underpinning biophysics and physiology will be translated into evidence-informed practice, integrating long-term heat acclimation or acclimatisation with complementary cooling, hydration and competition-day strategies. Drawing upon real-world examples from elite sport, the lecture will demonstrate how careful planning, individualisation and prior piloting can transform challenging environmental conditions into a potential performance opportunity.

9:00-10:00 | room B11/236 | Ethical issues of AI in sport and exercise research

10:30-11:30 | room B11/114 | Exercise physiology, skeletal muscle metabolism and exercise diagnostics

The lecture will cover the historical understanding of skeletal muscle metabolic biochemistry, ending in current methodologies, understanding and recent discoveries.

10:30-11:30 | room E34/207 | Exercise for Health (exercise, prevention & rehabilitation)

13:00-14:00 | room B11/206 | Psychological Bases of Sport Injuries

The lecture discusses psychosocial risk factors for the occurrence of sports injuries. Furthermore, psychological perspectives on rehabilitation and return to physical activity are discussed.

13:00-14:00 | room B11/236 | Graduates' Perspectives on Sport Coaching

An insight to graduates’ experiences of their university coach education

14:30-15:30 | room B11/206 | Markerless Motion Capture and AI in Sports and Physical Education

I will demonstrate markerless and IMU-based motin capture systems which can be used from professional to recreational sports level. Also, I will explain how XR/Metaverse is used in physical education in Japan.

14:30-15:30 | room B11/236 | The measurement of daily energy expenditure in free living people using doubly labeled water

I will discuss the theory and practice of using the doubly labelled water technique for measuring daily energy expenditure in free living people, with particular focus on sports studies. I will describe recent developments in the technique and how it can be used to improve the quality of nutrition data.

9:00-10:00 | room B11/334 | Current perspectives on altitude training in elite athletes

Elite athletes often attend altitude training camps in an attempt to optimize their performance. This lecture covers the the hematological and non-hematological adaptations to altitude training, as well as factors affecting individual adaptation and potential performance outcomes.

9:00-10:00 | room E34/153 | Handball practical session

This practical handball lesson focuses on developing basic handball skills through active game-based exercises. Students practise passing and catching, dribbling, movement without and with the ball, and shooting at goal in pairs and small groups.

10:30-11:30 | room B11/334 | Physical Activity After COVID-19

10:30-11:30 | room E34/207 | Sport 2035 (Technology, Innovation & Performance)

13:00-14:00 | room B11/334 | Student-athletes' and teachers' experiences of COVID-19 in Sweden

13:00-14:00 | Ball sports hall | An Invasion game for team sports

If you are attending this workshop as a participant, please wear appropriate sportswear, as practical activities will be included in the session.

13:00-14:00 | room E34/207 | Ph.D. open discussion

14:30-15:30 | room B11/114 | Human Pose Estimation: Workshop in Google Colab

14:30-15:30 | room E34/207 | Designing a doubly labelled water study to measure daily energy expenditure

14:30-15:30 | room B11/334 | Sports communication on social media

Social media have fundamentally transformed how athletes, sports organizations, and fans communicate and interact. Beyond sharing information, digital platforms have become important spaces for building personal brands, engaging audiences, managing public image, and shaping relationships between sport and its stakeholders. Drawing on research presented in the book Sports Communication on Social Media and Audience Reactions (Karolinum, 2025), as well as other relevant studies, this lecture explores how athletes and sports organizations strategically use social media and how audiences respond to their communication. Particular attention is paid to audience engagement, the opportunities and challenges of digital communication, and the factors influencing positive and negative reactions. Through research findings and practical examples, the lecture offers insights into the evolving role of social media in contemporary sport and its implications for athletes, sports organizations, and communication professionals.

9:00-10:00 | room B11/114 | Can we exercise our way out of poor health? A public health perspective for sports scientists

This lecture examines how physical activity fits within the broader U.S. approach to prevention, public health, and population health.

9:00-10:00 | Ball sports hall | Handball practical session

This practical handball lesson focuses on developing basic handball skills through active game-based exercises. Students practise passing and catching, dribbling, movement without and with the ball, and shooting at goal in pairs and small groups.

10:30-11:30 | room B11/114 | Sports Entrepreneurship

This one-hour session is designed to stimulate entrepreneurial thinking within a sports context. Students will be encouraged to look at sport from an entrepreneurial perspective by identifying opportunities, solving problems, and creating value for athletes, clubs, fans, or communities. The session introduces the basic principles of entrepreneurship and explores how innovative ideas can be transformed into viable concepts. Students will become familiar with the key elements of a simple business model and learn how these elements help shape and communicate an idea. Through an interactive group exercise, they will apply entrepreneurial thinking to develop a sport-related concept and reflect on how creativity, innovation, and value creation can contribute to opportunities within the sports sector.

10:30-11:30 | room B11/206 | From Injury to Recovery: Regenerative Medicine and 3D Technologies for Musculoskeletal Repair in Sports Medicine

This lecture will introduce students to how modern regenerative medicine aims to repair bone, cartilage and skin using advanced biomaterials and 3D printing technologies. Starting from fundamental tissue biology, this lecture will explore how discoveries made in the laboratory can be translated into patient-specific implants, scaffolds and surgical planning tools used in the operating room. The session will highlight real research examples to show how interdisciplinary science is shaping the future of orthopaedic and tissue repair therapies.

13:00-14:00 | room B11/114 | The nature of science and scientific thinking

The lecture will cover the writings of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper concerning what features are, and are not, adherent to the scientific method.

14:30-15:30 | room B11/206 | Sport and Exercise for chronic disease prevention

Developing and implementing sustainable exercise interventions in challenging contexts, requires an understanding of the problem, and the input from the community experiencing the problem. This lecture aims to share the development, implementation and outcomes of various exercise interventions in low-resourced environments for persons with multiple NCDs.