president, Hungarian School Sport Federation
HSSF’s mission on Quality Physical Education
17 November, 9h40–10h05
Mr Balogh would like to speak about the numerous initiatives of Hungarian School Sport Federation that are aimed at Quality Physical Education and Physical Activity promotion and that were launched and developed under his leadership in recent years. He would also brief his views on why we have to rapidly and radically change our PA programs and why he thinks we have reached a tipping point where the recent bad physical activity trends may become irreversible.
Bio:
Gábor Balogh, an Olympic silver medalist and former eight-times world champion in modern pentathlon has a decade long experience in leading sport organisations and launching physical activity campaigns and sport initiatives both at national and international level. From 2010 he has worked as an advisor of the Hungarian government dealing mainly with grassroots sport and school sport. He is the president of the Hungarian School Sport Federation since 2012 and the Hungarian National School, University and Leisure Sport Federation since 2017. Under his leadership, a number of successful international projects were implemented by these organisations, most notably the European School Sport Day and the SHAP.E. project (funded by Erasmus + program of the EU) in which participating organisations formed recommendations to Member States and the EU to introduce a health-conscious, future-oriented life management key competence within the lifelong learning framework.