Program Overview
This faculty led program will provide Slippery Rock University students the opportunity to learn about the academic discipline of adapted physical activity by attending the 2025 International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity (ISAPA). Hosted by the Kingdom of Kerry in the city of Tralee, Ireland, students, APA-related policy makers, practitioners and scholars from around the world will come together to learn, network and socialize while advancing the health and wellness for individuals with disabilities. The themes of this year's symposium are the following:
1. Creating new opportunities to thrive
2. 'Inclusivizing' our world
3. Nothing about us, without us
Students enrolled and studying in the area of adapted physical activity and/or health and physical education, will develop a worldview that acknowledges diversity and global interdependence at the ISAPA 2025 conference. Participants will experience through high quality interactions how policy in sport, physical activity, and physical education can be a vehicle for advancing human rights for individuals with disabilities at local, regional, national and global levels.
This program is not associated with a summer 2025 course. As such, graduating seniors are not eligible to participate in this travel program unless you will be enrolled in summer 2025 courses to complete your degree or are enrolled to return as a graduate student in fall 2025. Furthermore, students are not eligible to explore financial aid eligibility to offset the costs associated with this program.
This program will be capped at 20 student participants. Applications will be reviewed and approved on a first come-first serve basis.
Further information is available from the individual faculty leaders listed below as well as the Office for Global Engagement (Spotts World Culture Building-Room 002C).
Faculty Leader Information
Dr. Dallas Jackson
Physical and Health Education
126 Morrow Field House
dallas.jackson@sru.edu
Dr. Istvan Kovacs
Physical and Health Education
115 Morrow Field House
istvan.kovacs@sru.edu
Program Timeline
| Timeline |
Important Dates |
| Publicity for program begins |
January 2025 |
| Apply for your passport |
As soon as possible. Please don't wait to apply! |
| Student applications & application fee due |
February 28, 2025 (The program application may close before this date if applications received exceed number of spaces available on the program) |
| Official acceptances announced |
end of February/beginning of March |
| Mandatory-Pre-Departure meetings with participants |
March, April, May, June |
| Students billed for program fees |
Late April with summer billing |
| Airline reservations confirmed |
Mid March |
| Group departs |
June 13, 2025 (tentative) |
| Group returns |
June 21, 2025 (tentative) |
Costs
A non-refundable application fee of $100.00 is due at the time of application. The
application fee is a $100.00 non-refundable administrative fee covering currency fluctuations and wire transfer fees.
This program is not associated with a summer 2025 course. As such, students are not eligible to explore financial aid eligibility to offset the costs associated with this program. Graduating seniors are
not eligible for this program unless they will be enrolled in summer courses to complete their degree or an SRU graduate program in the fall 2025 semester.
Estimated Costs: $3350.00 (estimated-final price will be confirmed at the time of billing)
Cost includes:
- International airfare
- Most program activities/site visits and excursions
- Shared accommodations in multi bedded rooms
- Most breakfasts in country except on flight travel days
- In-country transportation to program sponsored excursions
- Full student registration for The International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity (ISAPA)
Not included in the program cost above:
- Basic international travel insurance-estimated at $16 per week of travel
- Any unexpected baggage fees charged by the airlines-estimated at $50-$75.00 per checked in bag
- Personal spending money-we recommend an estimated $700.00 in personal spending money to cover meals beyond breakfasts and incidentals including personal shopping. This estimate is determined by previous student reports of personal spending and may vary by participant.
- Vaccines/Health related expenses. Please consult with your primary care physician regarding international travel to Ireland.
Health and Safety
For general safety and security information for students abroad visit
U.S. Students Abroad.
For information regarding vaccines and medicines visit the
CDC. **Vaccines are the financial responsibility of the program participants and not covered in the above costs.
To learn more about international travel in this country,
click here.