📍 Casino 2000, Mondorf-les-Bains (Luxembourg)
📅 13–14 March 2026
Two days dedicated to the latest scientific advances shaping sport, from fundamental research to real-world practice.
13 March (from 18:00) – Inaugural Lectures
- Prof. Henning Madry – Genetic doping in sport
- Prof. Xavier Bigard – Transgender and DSD athletes
14 March – Scientific Programme
08.00 - Welcome speech (15mins)
08.15 - Meet the teams (15mins)
8.30 - SESSION 1: BRAIN POWER IN SPORTS – FROM ADAPTATIONS TO PERFORMANCE AND INJURY PREVENTION
- Alexandre Maricot - Brain Adaptations Following Chronic Ankle Instability: Consequences for Balance, Performance, and Return to Sport in Table Tennis (LIROMS) (10 mins)
- Thorben Hülsdünker - Train your Brain and make it fast – 10 years of brain training research for elite athletes in Luxembourg and Germany (LUNEX) (10 mins)
- Khatija Bahdur - Developing a motor-cognitive protocol for aerobic performance testing in team ball sport athletes (LUNEX) (10 mins)
- Questions (15 mins)
- Frédéric Margue, Jérôme Pauls - From Patellar Fracture to Sustained Performance: Clinical and Performance Perspectives on a Data- and Context-Driven Return-to-Sport Framework in Elite Cycling (LIHPS) (20mins)
9.35: SESSION 2: BREAKING THROUGH SPORTS INJURIES - FROM DIAGNOSIS TO UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT
- Amanda Magosch - Meniscus injuries associated to ACL rupture (CHL) (10 mins)
- Annika Punger - High-performance sport with joint arthroplasty–is preoperative performance level achievable? (Malteser Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien, Germany) (10 mins)
- Robin Voskuilen - The posterior cruciate ligament-posterior femoral cortex angle (PCL-PCA): a precise indicator of knee decompensation in skeletally immature ACL-injured patients (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands) (10 mins)
- Questions (15mins)
10.20: Break (20 minutes)
10.40: SESSION 3: MEASURING WHAT MATTERS - FROM DATA COLLECTION TO HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE MEASURING AND MODELLING SPORT, HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE
- Gabriella Vinco - PERFORM project (Uni.lu) (10 mins)
- Anne Backes – ORISCAV-LUX: Identifying movement behaviour phenotypes in the Luxembourgish adult population based on accelerometers raw data: the ORISCAV-LUX 2 study (LIH) (10 mins)
- Katarzyna Szczerba - Statistically Enhanced Learning and Federated Learning in Healthcare (Uni.lu) (10 mins)
- Questions (15min)
- 11.25: Bridging Research and Practice (presentation of knowledge translation initiatives, in collaboration with the Athlete Commission) (20mins)
11.45: SESSION 4: MIND IN BODY IN SPORTS - FROM MENTAL HEALTH TO BEHAVIOURAL PATTERNS TO LIFESTYLE IMPACT
- Mathilde Mura – PIANISSIMO: Personalised physical activity promotion in patients with osteoarthritis using a smartphone-based solution (LIH) (10 mins)
- Camille Tooth, Katy Seil-Moreels - The impact of social media of the mental health of young athletes: the E-MOTION project (LIROMS) (10 mins)
- Sandra Heck - How do sports participation and sports settings influence the mental health of children and adolescents? (LUNEX) (10 mins)
Questions (15min)
12.30: Final comments
Registration:
Please register by clicking here or by email: camille.tooth@liroms.lu
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