One of the greatest global public health challenges of the 21st century is the low level of physical activity observed throughout life, and one of the biggest challenges for athletic performance is the neglect of athletes’ physical and mental health and well-being. An individual’s lifestyle can cause health problems, but it can also be part of the solution to improve health, well-being, and/or performance.
Academic disciplines involved
- Exercise physiology
- Nutrition
- Sport and health psychology
- Mental health work
- Pedagogy
- Genetics, epigenetics
Research topics
Children and adolescents
- School-based physical activity
- Schoolyards, design and physical activity
- Motor skills and physical fitness among children and youth
- Physically active learning
Athletes
- Lifestyle and athletes
- Health among athletes
- Factors for performance and performance development
- Injuries in football
Students
- Body image and lifestyle among students
- Physical fitness among police students
Occupational groups
- Health and lifestyle among shift workers
- Belonging and mental health in the workplace
- Health among group instructors and personal trainers
Clinical groups
- Exercise and type II diabetes
- Exercise and obesity
- Exercise and eye health
- Exercise and mental disorders: eating disorders, schizophrenia, substance-related disorders
- Implementation of physical activity in rehabilitation and treatment of various diseases
Older adults
- Aging and physiological adaptation to exercise
- Sports activities for older adults
Collaborators
National Partners
- Vestfold and Telemark County Municipality
- Telemark Hospital
- Vestfold Hospital
- Center for Morbid Obesity at Health South-East
- Modum Bad
- The Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT)
- Health promotion centers in Telemark, Vestfold, and
- Buskerud
- Telemark Research Institute
- Mental Health Norway
- Erfaringskompetanse.no (Skien)
- GREP (Porsgrunn)
- Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School
- OsloMet
- University of Agder
- NTNU
- Østfold University College
- Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
- (Center for Physically Active Learning)
- Norwegian Police University College, Stavern
- TVERGA
- Aktivitetsalliansen
- Schools in Telemark and Vestfold
External member: Jarle Berge (Kysthospitalet and Polithøgskolen)
International partners
- Loughborough University
- Trinity St David’s University (UK)
- University of Southern Denmark
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Nordic Baltic Network (Norway, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia).
- University of Toronto, Canada
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
- Columbia University, New York, USA
- Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Aalborg University, Denmark
