Safe Fall – Safe Schools seminar

The University of Brighton is hosting a Safe Falls Seminar with visiting researchers Oscar DelCastillo Andres and Maria Del Carmen Mesa from The University of Seville.

The two-day event will include practical activity sessions to showcase how their programme runs and is open to all.

• Saturday 11 February 2023, 9am to 5.30pm
• Sunday 12 February 2023, 9am to 1pm

University of Brighton Eastbourne campus
Hillbrow site, Room G41

If you’d like to come along to the event please let Oscar and Maria know on their event booking form. Your data will only be used for communications related to this event.

Safe Fall-Safe Schools is an educational programme, based on judo (ukemis), methodologically developed through scientific research, to teach children how to fall safely and securely.

The World Health Organization (2021) points out that falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury and deaths worldwide. This figure comes from the 37.3 million falls that are severe enough to require medical attention each year.

Faced with this problem of great social significance, and of great economic expense for all countries, the WHO launched the challenge of responding to this social problem with `prevention strategies should emphasize education, training, creating safer environments, prioritizing fall-related research and establishing effective policies to reduce risk’.

Institutions such as the European Judo Union and the University of Seville, together with eight other European universities, have reacted to this WHO call and believe that Safe Fall-Safe Schools can respond to the WHO challenge, in a coherent and objective manner. Therefore, they have joined forces to develop the Safe Fall-Safe Schools program and to bring judo, and its ukemis, closer to society, supporting the EJU motto that Judo is More than Sport.