Volume 17 of the Willibald Gebhardt Book Series documents papers presented at the WGI conference on “Physical Education and School Sport in Europe”, held in October 2022 and includes ten chapters divided into four sections. Roland Naul and Heinz Aschebrock report in section one on the development of the WGI on behalf of its 30th anniversary. In section two Tamás Csányi highlights the development of implementing daily physical education lessons in Hungarian schools. Patrizia Tortella reviews the multiple efforts of early childhood education in Italy. The third section includes five national surveys on the development of physical activity, physical education and school sports during the two waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stefanie Dahl and Nils Neuber report on the case of Germany, one of the European countries with the longest school closures and shut down of all physical activities, whereas Suzanne Lundvall and Andreas Fröberg analyse the state- of-the-art school-based physical education in Swedish
schools, where Covid-19 did not lead to school closures for primary and secondary schools up to the age of 15. Furthermore, the section includes reports from Southern countries, Slovenia, Italy, and Greece, by Gregor Jurak, Erica Gobbi and Manolis Adamakis and his team. Finally, in section four, the CEREPS Consensus Statement on recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic is documented in two parts.
