European College of Sport Science - ECSS

📢 Calling all ECSS Members! Want to help review the science that shapes our Congress?

We’re looking for ECSS Members, preferably ECSS Fellows and former winners of the ECSS Young Investigators Award, to join the Reviewing Panel and put your extensive expertise to work, reviewing Congress abstracts and supporting EJSS as an expert reviewer. It’s a 4-year commitment and Panel Members get their ECSS Annual Congress registration fee waived.

Applications close on 15 October 2026.

For more details and the application form, visit https://bit.ly/4gNAb2u.

New partnership 🤝

ECSS has appointed Dryfta as its new data management provider. The agreement was signed at the 31st ECSS Annual Congress in Lausanne.

🔗 To know more about what this change means for our members and Congress participants, 👉 https://bit.ly/4xjII4v

Were you at ECSS Lausanne 2026? We want to hear from you.

Now that the Congress is over, this is your chance to tell us what you thought about your experience. We are keen to collect as many responses as possible, so every piece of feedback helps us make future Congresses even better for you.

If you attended, please take a few minutes to complete the post-event survey via your Congress App or https://bit.ly/4hPQ62L.

GLP-1 weight-loss medications alone are not enough.

ECSS has joined 11 leading international peak bodies representing exercise and sports science in calling for Clinical Exercise Physiologists (CEPs) to be a core part of obesity care.

Why?
The use of weight-loss medications has rapidly moved into mainstream care and evidence shows that 20% - 40% of weight lost with these medications can come from lean tissue, including skeletal muscle.

Muscle drives strength and mobility. Losing it can mean reduced physical function, greater frailty risk and weight regain after treatment ends.

CEPs are university-trained allied health professionals who prescribe exercise to help people maintain their muscle and strength. They design and supervise evidence-based exercise programmes, keeping people active and independent as they age.

It’s time for exercise physiology to be recognised as a standard part of weight-loss medication treatment.

To read the joint statement and six key asks, visit https://bit.ly/457BAvC.

The Norges idrettshøgskole is inviting applications for an Associate Professor/Professor in Sport Nutrition position in the Department of Physical Performance. The application deadline is 18 August 2026.

🔗 For details, visit https://bit.ly/3Tm49Tm