ABOUT Hungarian School Sport Federation

"Hungarian School Sport Federation (HSSF) is the biggest civil organisation in the fields of school sport in Hungary. HSSF founded in 1987, went through a major transformation in 2012, extending its mission beyond school sport:

In the field of education:

• supports teachers to implement quality physical education, to promote health-conscious, future-oriented lifestyle through regular PE and fitness assessment,
• develops professional content, methodology, teaching materials, knowledge sharing platforms to help professional work of PE and other teachers,
• organizes in-service trainings for teachers.

Regarding organizing promotional and sport events HSSF

• promotes health-enhancing physical activity, volunteering, social integration through nation-wide communication campaigns, national competition system (Student Olympics, Diákolimpia®), grassroots sport events,
• organized ISF World Schools Championships (Cross-Country 2016, Swimming 2017, Combat Games 2019) and supports Hungarian participation at ISF championships.

In the field of international cooperations, professional content development HSSF

• strengthens its strategic partnership, international cooperations through memberships (ISCA, FIEP, EUPEA, ISF),
• has observer status in the WHO-HEPA Europe working group, while the Hungarian government appointed HSSF’s representative as the Hungarian national HEPA focal point,
• took part in numerous European-level working groups in the field of physical education, grassroots sport and HEPA,
• coordinates and participates in Erasmus+ Sport collaborations, projects and other programmes supported by the European Commission,
• organises and participates at international conferences on quality PE, school sport.

HSSF also develops and operates a national Active School Programme for schools committed to provide age-appropriate quality and quantity of physical activity for all children. Pilot programme launched with 75 schools in September 2022."

The Vision of ISCA

"PE and school sports as activities should not be the privilege of the most talented, but wide-range opportunities for everyone to establish a physically active life.

A continuously increasing number of children who are actively and conscientiously involved in health-enhancing physical activity and healthy lifestyle."

The Mission of ISCA

"Our mission is

• to motivate children to regularly be physically active in order to become healthy and happy adults.
• to help creating health-conscious social culture, foster being conscious about the positive effects of regular physical activity and increasing the commitment to movement.
• to endorse the fulfilment of fun and joyful PE lessons, to foster increasing the prestige of the PE class and to increase the appreciation of the work done by PE teachers.
• to contribute to the professional academic results of PE and their practical utilization through our thorough and active research and development activity."