Report Card Grades

  • Overall Physical Activity: C+
  • Organized Sport and Physical Activity: B-
  • Active Play: D
  • Active Transportation: D+
  • Sedentary Behavior: D-
  • Physical Fitness: C+
  • Family and Peers: C-
  • School: C+
  • Community and Environment: B+
  • Government: B

Report Card Leaders

Evelin Mäestu, Ph.D.
I am researcher of Institute of Sport Sciences and Physiotherapy in University of Tartu. I completed my PhD in Exercise and Sport Sciences. My research interest is children’s and adult’s physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiorespiratory fitness and it impact to different health aspects. In 2020 I joined with research group of Physical Activity and Health which is lead the “Schools in Motion” program in Estonia. This program aiming to make school-day more active through active academic lessons, active recess, active transportation to and from school. I am also related to several international projects related to physical activity and its promotion. I have published more than 50 per-reviewed scientific articles of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, fitness, cardiometabolic health in children, adolescents and adults.

Jaak Jürimäe, Ph.D.
Jaak Jürimäe is a Professor of Coaching Sciences. He completed his PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Queensland, Australia and joined the Institute of Sport Sciences and Physiotherapy at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His research interests among others include the assessment of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, body composition, bone health, cardiorespiratory fitness and different blood biochemical parameters during growth and maturation in children. He has a special interest in pediatric exercise physiology. He is currently an Associated Editor for BMC Pediatrics. Dr. Jürimäe has published more than 180 papers and book chapters in the peer-reviewed literature. In addition, he has co-authored 3 books with internationally reconginized publishers and supervised 12 PhD students.