Last Friday the 7th, the «3rd International Forum: Playing Heritage. Worldwide Network of Teachers and Researchers in Traditional Games and Sports» took place Carried out in online format, 113 participants from 34 countries on 5 continents took part With the collaboration of the GIAM, AEJeST the...
Rafael Luchorro Parrilla , a GIAM member since 2017, was awarded his doctorate with the distinction Excellent Cum Laude following a public thesis defence. The examining panel consisted of Dr Rosa Rodríguez Arregi (chair), Dr Ulises Castro (secretary) and Dr Miguel Pic (member). The thesis,...
Dr Pere Lavega, INEFC professor and GIAM principal researcher, was recognized at the 2022 International Awards ceremony for Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Sports Foundation of India.This award is added to other distinctions, such as the one he received last March at the Ethnosport Forum in Baku. Congratulations...
Talk by Dr. Pere Lavega for the Permanent International Seminar on Physical Education and Sport. Our IP of the GIAM research group, once again, has shown his teaching in Praxeology and the Traditional Sports Game. He spoke about traditional games, education and training, praxeology and physical...
Aar on Rillo Albert , a fellow member of GIAM, has achieved the degree of Doctor with an excellent qualification, in an event held at INEFC Lleida. The tribunal presided over by Dr. Pierre Parlebas has also been composed of Dr. Fidel Molina Luque (UdL) and Dr. Joseba Etxebeste (UPV). The...
Dr Pere Lavega, IP of the GIAM group, was present at the 5th Ethnosport Forum organized by WEC in Baku, Azerbaijan. 140 people from 45 countries participated, and it was attended by Ministers and high-ranking politicians from countries in Asia, Africa and America. In this meeting he received...
On January 25th, the presentation of the «Worldwide Network of Teachers and Researchers in Traditional Games and Sports » took place. This initiative is led by Dr. Pere Lavega, responsible for the International Projection of INEFC (INEFC-Hub). About 200 people from different continents...
In Jeux sportifs, jeux de société et classifications , Pierre Parlebas and Michel Boutin analyse games and the concept of play. Activities commonly called games inspire great enthusiasm around the world. Some, such as sporting games, primarily involve motor performance . Others, including many...
Volume 22, issue 1 of Cuadernos de Psicología del Deporte published “Design and validation of games and emotions scale for children (GES-C)” . Its authors are Dr Verónica Alcaraz Muñoz and Dr José Ignacio Alonso Roque, active members of the Motor Action Research Group (GIAM), and Dr Juan Luis...
GIAM is concluding its active involvement in the Erasmus+ Together project. Promoting European Traditional Sports and Games: TOGETHER for Inclusive Intercultural Dialogue with People with Intellectual Disabilities The project sought to foster inclusive dialogue through traditional sports and games...
Issue 29 of Acción Motriz published “Educación de las conductas motrices sostenibles” by Dr Francisco Lagardera , a former professor at INEFC Lleida and an active member of the Motor Action Research Group (GIAM). He examines how physical education has evolved in relation to motor conduct,...
On 15 December 2021, motor praxeology research groups from Brazil and Spain held an international meeting . The aim was to get to know one another, share experiences, projects and interests, and explore potential collaborations between groups and individuals. Brazil was represented by the Grupo de...
Last week from 1 to 3 December Almunia Doña Godina, Zaragoza, Spain. We organized the last action of Together Erasmus+ Project coordinated by INEFC and a large participation of GIAM members. An i nternational festival inclusive festival with people with disabilities from Italy, France, and...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published “Relationships, Decisions, and Physical Effort in the Marro Traditional Sporting Game: A Multimodal Approach” . The study used a multimodal approach to examine decision-making among players of Marro, a traditional...
The Emotional States Elicited in a Human Tower Performance: Case Study was published in Frontiers . The study set out to examine emotional states (well-being, discomfort and affectivity) during a representative performance by the Castellers de Lleida group in Plaça Paeria, Lleida. The main finding...
Effect of Ball Screen and One-on-One on the Level of Opposition and Effectiveness of Shots in the ACB was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by Jorge Serna 1, Verónica Muñoz-Arroyave1, Jaume March-Llanes 2, María Teresa Anguera3, Queralt Prat1, ...
The Opportunity project has launched its new website . It brings together information on the project, its activities and structure, and the latest news on this major initiative supported by the European Commission. Opportunity will continue to promote traditional sporting games as a means of...
Today Pere Lavega represented INEFC at the online meeting of Erasmus+ project coordinators. Four sessions covered the introduction, administrative guidance, financial matters, dissemination and final conclusions.
It is presented in its adaptation for the article « Traditional games as cultural heritage. The case of Canary Islands (Spain) from an ethnomotor perspective», by Rafael Luchoro-Parrilla, Pere Lavega-Burgués, Sabrine Damian-Silva, Queralt Prat, Unai Sáez de Ocáriz, Enric Ormo-Ribes and Miguel...
Dr Iman Nefil and Professor Mohamed Boutalbi present their new book, Prise de décision et performance sportive. Approche praxéologique . With a foreword by Dr Pierre Parlebas, the book examines the decision-making process in games and sports. A process is commonly understood as a series of...
GIAM colleague Miguel Pic Aguilar 1 and Gudberg Konrad Jonsson 2 published Professional Boxing Analysis with T-Patterns in Physiology & Behavior in January 2021. The study used observational methods to describe how professional boxers knocked out their opponents. It analysed this motor...
On 11 December, Willy Hugedet successfully defended his doctoral thesis, Physical Education Put to the Test by a Democratic Ideal: The Subversive Work of Pierre Parlebas (1950–2020) , and earned his doctorate. Supervised by Dr Christian Vivier and Dr Sebastien Laffage-Cosnier, the thesis was...
GIAM members Pere Lavega-Burgués 1* and Unai Saez de Ocariz2* published Development and Validation of Two Questionnaires to Study the Perception of Conflict in Physical Education in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health . BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT ARTICLE Int. J....
The International Federation of Physical Education and Sports Group organised the first Ibero-American Congress on Physical Education, Challenges, Paradigms and the New Normal . Dr Pere Lavega-Burgués represented GIAM and gave the talk Innovation and Networking in Physical Education through...
GIAM Lleida members Antoni Costes1, Jaume March-Llanes 2, Verónica Muñoz-Arroyave 1, Sabrine Damian-Silva 1, Rafael Luchoro-Parrilla 1, Cristòfol Salas-Santandreu 1, Miguel Pic 3 and Pere Lavega-Burgués 1* published Traditional Sporting Games as Emotional Communities: The Case of Alcover and...
Playing Ludomotor Activities in Lleida During the Spanish Civil War: An Ethnomotor Approach was published in Frontiers . The authors are GIAM members Enric Ormo-Ribes 1*, Pere Lavega-Burgués 1*, Rosa Rodríguez-Arregi1, Rafael Luchoro-Parrilla 1, Aaron Rillo-Albert 2 and Miguel Pic 3. BRIEF...
The GIAM research group at INEFC Lleida helped organise the first European Forum on Traditional Games and Sports, a live online event organised by the European Traditional Sports and Games Association (AEJeST). The inaugural forum brought together 150 participants from 35 countries across four...
The Croatian Association of Traditional Games and Sports, the Institute for Tourism in Zagreb and the Ethnographic Museum of Istria organised the seminar Traditional Sports and Games in the Context of Tourism . The seminar set out to explore the role and place of traditional games and sports in...
The 9th International Turkish Folk Traditional Sports Games Symposium was held in Türkiye on 29 and 30 November. Over two days, contributors from the United States, Brazil, Greece, Argentina, Africa, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Spain and Catalonia (Lleida) gave talks and took part in roundtables. The...
Dr Pere Lavega Burgués, director and principal investigator of the Motor Action Research Group (GIAM), led an online research workshop. It brought together the Brazilian Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas das Abordagens Táticas nos Esportes Coletivos (NEPATEC) and the Laboratório de Pedagogia das...
Biel Pubill-Soler, known for his research, outreach and practical experimentation, has published “Book Review: Els jocs i els esports Tradicionals. Tradicionari” in Frontiers in Psychology . As Professor Pubill explains, Tradicionari is a work published by Enciclopèdia Catalana that seeks...
Here is GIAM member Rafael Luchoro’s talk from an online event organised in Mexico on 6 November. Rafael, who is completing his doctoral thesis on the subject, gave a thoughtful, rigorous and impassioned account of the projects and research he is carrying out in the Canary Islands. His talk, ...
INEFC and AEJST present the first European Forum for Traditional Games and Sports. The forum will take place over a series of meetings and aims to bring existing networks together. Organisations will be able to introduce themselves and share their work and interests. Participants will learn about...
The AEJeST , the European Association of Traditional Games and Sports, brings together organisations that work to preserve traditional games and sports, encourage people to practise them and recognise the values they convey. Federations and associations for traditional games and sports, cultural...
This Erasmus Sport project, led by Professor Pere Lavega from INEFC Lleida, has the support of 39 organisations, including UNESCO and ITSGA, and seven countries. It aims to promote social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities through traditional games and sports. It will run for...
The Brazilian journal Conexões held the online launch of its special issue on motor praxeology. You can follow the individual contributions at the times listed below. Opening presentation of the dossier: Marco Bortoleto, Joao Rivas, Joao Vori, Edivaldo Gois, Joao Rivas. 24,45 Educação Física e...
On Wednesday 14 October, the Brazilian journal Conexões held an online launch for its 2020 volume 18, a special issue on motor praxeology. The volume features 24 articles by more than 50 authors from several countries, with significant contributions from members of GIAM. The event was streamed...
Posted on 29 September, 2020 by Enric Ormo In order to categorise and describe the set of variables of both internal and external logic in an ethnomotor situation, Rafael Luchorro has developed the table below. It is presented in its adaptation for the article « The Traditional Sporting Games as...
On 29 September, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture will hold a seminar on “Traditional Sports and Games, the way ahead”. Our colleague Professor Pere Lavega i Burgués, a member of GIAM and INDEST and president of the European Association of...
The latest issue of the Brazilian journal Conexões (volume 18, 2020) is devoted to motor praxeology. It brings together 24 articles by more than 50 authors from universities in Brazil, Argentina and Spain, presenting research findings, reflections and accounts of practice. The special issue was...
Dr Pere Lavega, professor at INEFC Lleida and GIAM’s principal investigator, took part in the 3rd International Ethnosport Forum in Antalya, Türkiye. The forum brought together experts from 50 countries and 12 ministers from different continents. The 250 participants were able to attend the...
The renowned journal Frontiers in Psychology has announced a special issue on traditional sporting games and play: enhancing cultural diversity, emotional well-being, interpersonal relationships and intelligent decisions . This is the first time a high-impact scientific journal has devoted a...
Professor Pere Lavega, GIAM’s principal investigator, took part in the First Regional Conference of African Ministers as a UNESCO expert. The sessions, held in Madagascar from 10 to 13 September 2019, focused on implementing the Kazan Action Plan (KAP) in Africa. Experts and ministers discussed...
Volume 4 of the Enciclopèdia Castellera was presented at the headquarters of the Castellers de Lleida. Xavier Brotons, the encyclopaedia’s director, described the volume’s significance and the new perspective it brings to the world of human towers. The speakers were joined by Carles Puig-Gros,...
Our GIAM colleagues Vicente Navarro Adelantado and Miguel Pic Aguilar have presented their new book La paradoja de jugar en tríada. El juego motor en tríada (The Paradox of Playing in a Triad. The Triad Motor Game). A triad is a collective arrangement with distinctive consequences when it takes...
JCI recognises GIAM Less than a month ago I received the welcome news that our group was a finalist in the eighth edition of the Lleidatans de l’Any 2019 awards , organised by the Jove Cambra Internacional de Lleida (JCI). Members of the group broke the news to me after quietly conspiring to keep...
The International Symposium on Traditional Sports Practices and Sustainable Cultural Tourism took place from the 7th to the 12th in Tamanrasset, Algeria. The symposium covered the description and analysis of traditional sporting games (TSGs), their cultural contexts, games and sports in relation...
Dr Queralt Prat presented and defended her doctoral thesis in the Hall of Honour at INEFC Lleida before a panel of Professors José Ignacio Alonso, Eloísa Lorente Catalán and Francesc Busca Bonet. The thesis, Towards Collaborative and Emotional Physical Education Through Information and...
On 4 and 5 December 2018, Turkmenistan hosted the international conference “Importance of the Great Silk Road: Present and Future Development”. UNESCO organised it with the Government of Turkmenistan. Experts on traditional games and sports (TGS) from the Interactive Atlas of Cultural Interactions...