ECSS strives to continue a long tradition by providing thematically oriented interest groups as a platform for exchange and networking during its Annual Congress. The thematic orientation of a SIG refers to both the major sports science disciplines and also special target groups or specific sub-topics of current relevance.

ECSS provides the meeting facilities for SIGs, including any technical requirements. Furthermore, ECSS regularly updates its website with information about the SIG groups and other relevant material produced by specific SIG groups.

Expressions of interest (including the topic, a content related abstract and a special interest core group, including 3-5 participants) should be sent to the ECSS Office and will subsequently be reviewed by the ECSS Scientific Board.

The ECSS has the following Special Interest Groups:

• Combat Sports
• Elite Sport Performance
• Environmental Physiology
• REDs
• Running Sciences
• Sports Nutrition and Hydration (sponsored by GSSI)
• The Active Brain
• Wearable Technology

Each SIG meets in the framework of the Annual Congress and changes topic every year. Any congress participant can join a SIG for free by simply attending the meeting.

Visit the congress page of our upcoming congress in Glasgow for more information about these groups.

ECSS is here to help boost your scientific career by promoting sport science-related employment vacancies from all around the world.

This platform has become a career starting point for many scholars in the field of sport science by publishing sport scientific positions, PhD scholarships, as well as research grants from leading sport scientific institutes.

If you would like to publish a job vacancy, please get in touch via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and learn how to gather international applications for your vacancy.

Our Events Calendar presents the latest sport science-related events around the world. Full access is provided online via your ECSS account.

The platform is used by sport science associations to announce congresses, symposia, tutorials and relevant awards, providing an excellent opportunity to gain awareness within the community.

Frequently consulted by scholars in all sub-disciplines our events Calendar functions as a useful tool to plan your academic year with regards to participation and contribution to sport science events.

To include an item in the Events Calendar, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

ECSS has a number of travel grants available for attending the ECSS Annual Congress in person, as follows:

• ECSS Travel Grant
• ECSS YIA Travel Grant
• GSSI Young Scholar Travel Grant
  

ECSS Travel Grant

The College offers three ECSS Travel Grants each for €600 (Euros). During the online abstract submission process, applicants have the opportunity to opt in for the ECSS travel grant. The applicant must fulfill the following requirements: 

• The applicant is not a former ECSS travel grant winner.
• The applicant has successfully submitted an abstract for presentation at the ECSS Annual Congress
• The applicant uploaded a proof of a university affiliation that appears on the DAC List of ODA Recipients in the ECSS account.
• The applicant uploaded a proof of current residence in a country that appears on the DAC List of ODA Recipients in the ECSS account.
• The applicant paid the full registration fee before receiving the ECSS travel grant money.

Further information about the ECSS travel grant can be found here. 

ECSS YIA Travel Grant

At every ECSS congress, ECSS and its official publishing partner, Wiley, offer up to five travel grants of €600 each for ECSS Young Investigators Award (YIA) candidates. During the online abstract submission process, applicants for the ECSS YIA have the opportunity to opt in for the ECSS YIA travel grant. The applicant must fulfill the following requirements: 

• The applicant is not a former ECSS YIA travel grant winner.
• The applicant has successfully submitted an abstract for an ECSS YIA presentation at the Annual Congress
• The applicant uploaded a proof of a university affiliation that appears on the DAC List of ODA Recipients in the ECSS account.
• The applicant uploaded a proof of current residence in a country that appears on the DAC List of ODA Recipients in the ECSS account.
• The applicant paid the full registration fee before receiving the ECSS YIA travel grant money.

Following a review of all ECSS YIA applications by the ECSS Scientific Board and ECSS Scientific Committee, ECSS YIA travel grants are then selected according to the results of the ECSS YIA’s abstract selection process and offered to candidates.

Further information about the ECSS YIA travel grant can be found here. 

GSSI Young Scholar Travel Grant

Our platinum partner, the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI), offers the GSSI Young Scholar Travel Grant to young researchers (35 years of age or younger at the time of the Annual Congress), anywhere in the world, in the field of sports nutrition and hydration, presenting their work at the ECSS Annual Congress. Abstracts submitted in these two areas in both presentation formats, oral or poster, may opt in to apply for the GSSI Young Scholar Travel Grant. 

Further information about this grant, including the application form, can be found here.