Sport - a healthy alternative

The UBC Commission on Sport Annual Meeting entitled "Sport - a Healthy Alternative" was held in Karl-skrona, Sweden on 19-21 April 2007. It gathered representatives of 8 cities from 7 countries: Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden.

With sport as a healthy alternative being the main subject of this year's meeting, Karlskrona speakers (among whom there was a Sweden's Governmental Drug Coordinator) presented ways of preventing unhealthy and addictive lifestyles (such as drug addiction, doping), whereas in the second part of the meeting speakers from Turku (Finland) and local ones from Karlskrona focused on methods of promoting healthy habits.

Additionally, meeting participants had an opportunity to see the implementation of healthy lifestyle polices in practise, and thus visited the Karlskrona Indoor Athletic Arena and Telenor Arena Karlskrona.

Moreover, during the meeting, Ms Beata Lêgowska was re-elected as the Chairperson of the UBC Commission on Sport, and Ms Camilla Brunsberg was nominated the Commission's Vice Chairperson. Furthermore, at the meeting there was presented 2007 grant awarding procedure entitled "Always Active". By allocating the grants the Commission wanted to award those projects which encouraged elderly people to keep physically active and increased their functional capacity as well as promoted sport as a way of preventing various illnesses. As usual the Commission's grants were addressed exclusively to UBC member cities.

The projects eligible for the 2007 grant session should be realised in the period June 1 - November 30, 2007. The deadline for sending grant applications was April 30, 2007.