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Carl, Johannes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7393-0450
Barnett, Lisa M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9731-625X
Jerebine, Alethea https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1396-244X
Mazzoli, Emiliano https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9207-4167
Mouton, Alexandre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1690-0383
Barratt, Jaime https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6945-6108
Elsborg, Peter https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1770-2274
Green, Nigel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9395-3921
Niederberger, Marlen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4892-7222
Sum, Raymond Kim-Wai https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4051-9945
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Filho, Valter Barbosa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-4068
Battista, Rebecca
Bopp, Trevor https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6320-6028
Brazo-Sayavera, Javier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6249-5131
Brian, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-0938
Bryan, Charity
Cairney, John https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2856-3967
Camara, Pascal Mamudou https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4100-918X
Campbell, Fiona
Carcamo-Oyarzun, Jaime https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7536-8788
Christodoulides, Efstathios https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6423-7002
Davies, Karl
Dlugonski, Deirdre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7030-8348
Dolley, Danielle https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7374-9034
Dudley, Dean https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5140-9533
Duncan, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2016-6580
Durden-Myers, Liz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7705-1138
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Englén, Tom
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Farrag, Mahmoud
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Accepted: 16 June 2026
First Online: 8 August 2026
Declarations
Conflicts of Interest/Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests. Nevertheless, the authors wish to disclose the following professional affiliations to ensure transparency: Jaime Barratt co-leads the ASPA Special Interest Group Physical Literacy, of which Lisa M. Barnett, Alethea Jerebine and Raymond Kim-Wai Sum are members. Nigel Green serves as the chair of the International Physical Literacy Association, and Johannes Carl, Peter Elsborg, and Raymond Kim-Wai Sum serve as official country ambassadors for the International Physical Literacy Association. Peter Elsborg is the funder and current board member of the Physical Literacy Network Denmark, and Alexandre Mouton is an active board member of the AIESEP. Finally, Raymond Kim-Wai Sum is the current president of the Chinese Physical Literacy Association.
Ethics Approval: Ethics approval for this study was granted by the Human Ethics Advisory Group Health at Deakin University (approval number HEAG-H 06_2024). The study was performed in accordance with the 2013 Declaration of Helsinki.
Consent to Participate: All representatives provided informed written consent prior to participation and data collection. This is not a clinical study.
Consent for Publication: Not applicable.
Availability of Data and Material: The Global Physical Literacy (GloPL) Action Framework, including the main document with respective translations and the consortium, is available on the following website: .
Code Availability: Not applicable.
Authors’ Contributions: Conceptualisation: JC, LB, EM, AM, JB, PE, NG, MN, RKWS; data curation: JC, AJ; discussion (Delphi): JB, PE, NG, RKWS, all consortium members; formal analysis: JC, AJ; funding acquisition: JC, LB; investigation: JC, AJ; methodology: JC, MN; project administration: JC; resources: LB; software: JC, AJ; supervision: LB, EM; validation: JC, LB, AJ, EM, AM; visualisation: JC; writing (original draft): JC; writing (review): all authors (including consortium members); writing (editing): JC, LB, EM, AM, JB, PE, NG, MN, RKWS. All authors read and approved the final version of the article.
Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process: During the preparation of this work, the authors used Google Gemini for linguistic refinement suggestions. This AI tool was utilised solely to enhance the manuscript’s readability and address grammatical/stylistic issues, without generating any content or ideas. After using this service, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.
