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As the leading International Sport for All Association, TAFISA (The Association For International Sport for All) strives to raise awareness about the benefits of Sport for All and physical activity. TAFISA endeavours to reintroduce physical activity into everyday life. It is the Mission 2030 to use Sport for All as a tool to create a better world and tackle global challenges from social inclusion to gender equity, environment, peace, development, etc. With 360 Members across 170 countries, TAFISA is a not-for-profit organisation, benefitting from a strong network of sports organisations, national Olympic committees, sport ministries, international federations, intergovernmental organisations, municipalities, and universities; and enjoys official recognition and cooperation with IOC, UNESCO, WHO, EU and ICSSPE.

Tel Aviv University is the largest University in Israel with approximately 30,000 students. It is the only University in Israel with a Masters program in Exercise Physiology. It has the newly founded Sylvan Adams Sports Institute with testing and training facilities, encironmental chamber and hypoxic hotel. The Campus have Faculty members in Exercise Sciences and students that participate in various research programs, and a Sports Technology program with the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Polythecnic University

Sport Matters is an NGO based in Sydney, Australia that aims to make a positive and long-lasting impact on development in Australia, the Pacific, Asia and Africa.

Premier Academy of Sports Science and Physical Education (India) being a non-profit and professional organization aims at promoting the culture of excellence in the field of Sports Science and Physical Education world-wide, for the purpose of channelising youthful energy into constructive and productive directions. Further, it promotes active and healthy lifestyle for people of all ages and classes, through participation in various disciplines of games, physical activities and competitive sports, on-line and off-line on the regular basis, for physical fitness, entertainment and social well-being, with a a view to develop India as a sporting nation, in due course of time.

Physical education, health, and recreation study program is a study program at the Faculty of Sports and Health Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, which organizes activities in the fields of physical education, sports, and health. The main objective of the study program is to produce graduates of physical education, sports, and health who have the expertise of educators, researchers, and creative economy developers in the fields of physical education, sports, and health with character and innovative use of Science and Technology.

Panathlon is an International Movement for the promotion and spread of culture and sporting ethics, according to the official recognition of the IOC, and it aims to deepen, divulge and defend the values of sport as a tool for training and enhancing the individual and as a vehicle of solidarity between men and peoples. The word “Panathlon” is of Greek origin, and can be translated with “group of sport disciplines” and its motto “Ludis Iungit” means “united by sport”. Panathlon International is the association of all Panathlon Clubs, essentially based on the voluntary work of its Club members.

NASR connects sport researchers from different sciences and promotes research on sport themes.

Nippon Sport Science University

South African Higher Education Institution

The National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport pays great attention to the international cooperation development. Prospective development plans of the University always take into account world trends and constant changes, taking place in the Ukrainian and European educational process, etc. The main areas of international activity are representing the University at the international arena and in international organizations; looking for partners, preparing and signing cooperation agreements with foreign universities, educational and scientific institutions; working with embassies and consulates of foreign states in Ukraine; training specialists for partner countries; participating in preparation and implementation of international educational and scientific projects and programmes; advertising and information sharing activities at the international level; searching for financial support in international organizations; coordinating the participation of various University departments at international symposiums, congresses, conferences. The University continued to maintain close business cooperation with the International Association of Universities on Physical Education and Sport during 2018. The International Centre for Olympic Studies and Olympic Education and the Olympic Academy of Ukraine work on the basis of the University. They maintain fruitful relations with the International Olympic Committee, the International Centre for Olympic Education, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the International Olympic Academy. The NUUPES signed 35 agreements with higher educational and scientific institutions from 14 countries in 2018 (Belarus, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Iraq, Iran, Italy, China, Latvia, Mexico, Moldova, Poland, Croatia, Czech Republic, Japan). The University is actively working in the directions of international academic cooperation intensification. The sufficient progress was achieved in relations with Polish, Chinese and Latvian partners. The University was visited by the delegation of the International Judo Federation and the International Judo Academy, the Shandong Sports University (China), the Guangzhou Sport University (China), the Jining University (China), the Nihon University of Tokyo (Japan), the All-Japanese Coaches Association, the National Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan, 3-D Institute (USA), etc. As part of the international partnership, the University participates in the EU programmes “Horizon 2020”, “Erasmus +” on staff and teachers’ academic mobility, and Capacity Building in Higher Education, cooperates with the European network of physical activity of the World Health Organization in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. The major achievement of the University in 2018 was getting the EU grant under the Erasmus + programme in the direction KA2 Capacity Building in higher education: “Innovative Rehabilitation Education – Introduction of New Master Programmes in Ukraine”. The project goals: establishing professional capacity of the academic and research staff, developing the teaching/learning/assessment resources and creating specific educational infrastructure needed to provide the new professional study programme in physiotherapy at the national level. Project objectives: Update and revise the current Bachelor Programme in Physical Therapy Create comprehensive Master Programme in Physical Therapy Increase professional capacity of the academic staff to reach at least 40 qualified PT faculty members for teaching physical therapy Create educational infrastructure for learning Physical Therapy at partner universities Pilot PT master programmes based on the new content and innovative teaching approaches, and graduate up to 200 masters in PT. The total Grant amount is € 997.249.00. Inter-institutional agreements have been signed with the Gdańsk University of Physical Education and Sport (Poland) and the Vincent Pol University in Lublin (Poland) this year. They envisage participation of students, scientific and pedagogical staff and employees of the NUUPES in the programmes of academic mobility Erasmus + at the expense of the funds provided by the EU. Under these agreements students of the NUUPES are sent to study at these universities. During November – December 2018 a doctoral student from the Kazakh Academy of Sport and Tourism practiced at the NUUPES with the purpose of advance training and undertaking scientific internship. The programme “Two Diplomas” with the participation of the NUUPES and Vincent Pol University in Lublin (Poland) started in 2018. As part of this program, our students have the opportunity to obtain the Polish university diploma in addition, to undertake internships and practice in professional organizations in EU.