ANNALES KINESIOLOGIAE • 6 • 2015 • 1 REPORTS AND REVIEWS/POROCILA IN OCENE, 69-78 20th ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF SPORT SCIENCE Malmo, Sweden, 24th-27th June 2015 The 20th annual congress of the European College of Sport Science was held in Malmo (Sweden) from 24 to 27th June, 2015. This year the Congress was organized by two neighbouring countries and three universities: the Department of Sport Sciences, Malmo University, the Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, and the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (NEXS), University of Copenhagen. In total, there were 2394 participants from 70 countries with 1587 submitted abstracts. There were 4 plenary sessions, 38 invited speakers, 113 oral sessions, and 64 mini-oral sessions. The Congress participants presented their latest research from different research fields. Namely, the presentations were given on the topics of physiology, training and testing, health and fitness, sports medicine and orthopedics, biomechanics and others. The ECSS Young Investigator Award 2015 contest was held again this year. Martin Keller (Switzerland) won in the oral presentation category; Tetsuhiro Kidokoro (Japan) was the winner in the mini-oral (poster) presentations category. The ECSS 2015 was attended by a member of the Institute for Kinesiology Research, Scientific and Research Centre Koper, University of Primorska, Slovenia, Uroš Marušič, Ph.D. He gave a speech within the section of invited speakers, his presentation's title was "Mental and Cognitive Training: Importance for Skill Learning, Rehabilitation and Sports Activities - Mechanisms and Applications". The 21st Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science will be held next year from 6th to 9th July in Vienna, Austria. Uroš Marušič 73 ANNALES KINESIOLOGIAE • 6 • 2015 • 1 REPORTS AND REVIEWS/POROCILA IN OCENE, 69-78 20. LETNI ZNANSTVENI KONGRES »EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF SPORT SCIENCE« Malmo, Švedska, 24.-27. junij 2015 20. letni znanstveni kongres »European college of sport science« je potekal v Mal-mu (Švedska) med 24. in 27. junijem 2015. Letošnji kongres sta organizirali dve sosednji državi in kar tri univerze: Oddelek za znanosti o športu Univerze v Malmu, Oddelek za znanosti o zdravju Univerze v Lundu ter Oddelek za prehrano, telesno aktivnost in šport (NEXS) Univerze v Kopenhagnu. Letošnjega ECSS-kongresa se je udeležilo 2394 udeležencev iz 70 držav, oddanih pa je bilo 1587 povzetkov. Odvile so se 4 plenarne sekcije, 3 ustne predstavitve in 64 predstavitev v obliki posterja, prisostvovalo pa je tudi 38 povabljenih govornikov. Udeleženci kongresa so predstavili svoje najnovejše ugotovitve na različnih znanstvenoraziskovalnih področjih, kot so fiziologija, treniranje in merjenje, zdravje in zmogljivost, športna medicina in ortopedija, biomehanika in ostalo. Tudi letos je potekalo tekmovanje mladih raziskovalcev (ECSS Young Investigator Award 2015 contest), kjer je v kategoriji ustnih predstavitev zmagal Martin Keller (Švica), v kategoriji predstavitev v obliki posterja pa Tetsuhiro Kidokoro (Japonska). Letošnjega kongresa ECSS 2015 sem se udeležil kot predstavnik Inštituta za kinezi-ološke raziskave Znanstveno-raziskovalnega središča Univerze na Primorskem. V sekciji vabljenih predavateljev sem predstavil prispevek z naslovom »Miselni/kognitivni trening: Pomen za učenje veščin, rehabilitacije in športnih dejavnosti - mehanizmi in aplikacije«. Naslednje leto bo 21. letni kongres ECSS potekal med 6. in 9. julijem na Dunaju v Avstriji. Uroš Marušič 74