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IOC grant to the OSTRC
Intoduction
The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center is one out of four research centers that will receive an IOC grant for research on prevention of injury and protection of athlete health.
Among the world leaders on sports injury research
The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center under the chair of Professor Lars Engebretsen and Professor Roald Bahr is proud to be among the four out of 36 research centres in the competition that will receive a grant to stimulate further research and collaboration.
The other centers are located in South Africa, Canada and Australia.
By supporting selected research centres, the IOC will promote injury and disease prevention and the improvement of physical health of the athlete by:
• Establishing long-term research programmes on injury and disease prevention (including studies on basic epidemiology, risk factors, injury mechanisms and intervention).
• Fostering collaborative relationships with individuals, institutions and organisations to improve athletes’ health
• Implementing (and collaborating with) applied, ongoing and novel research and development within the framework and long-term strategy of the IOC
• Setting up knowledge translation mechanisms to share scientific research results with the field throughout the Olympic Movement and sports community and to convert these results into concrete actions to protect the health of the athletes.
The IOC will support established research centres that have demonstrated clinical, educational, and research expertise in elite sports, by giving them an annually grant of CHF 100.000 for a period of four years. The centres must be affiliated with clinical medicine as well as education.
The four research centres are:
· UCT/MRC Research Unit of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine
(ESSM), University of Cape Town, South Africa
· Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Calgary,
Canada
· Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (CIPSP),
School of Human Movement & Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat,
Australia
· Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of
Sport Sciences, Norway