Our May 2017 Conference was hosted in Vienna by Gerald Schuhfried and his team at Schuhfried GmbH. We welcomed PSI to their first ETPG Conference and also John Hackston as representative of Oxford Psychologists Press.

We invited Professor Dr. Louis Norman-Audenhove and MMag. Michael Brandstetter from the Austrian Insurance Association to brief us on how another industry interest group serves its members.

Dr Veronika Kretmayr introduced us to new developments in sports psychology. Dr Kretmayr made a number of important points:

• Sports psychology has influenced I/O psychology and continues to do so.
• People working in sports psychology are not necessarily psychologists.
• it has therapeutic and neuropsychological aspects.
• most people working in the area are self-employed consultants.
• universities, centres of excellence and academies are the best routes to market here. Large sporting clubs, with some exceptions, tend to hire individual consultants who ‘bring tests with them.’
• there is a real opportunity to create tests contextualized to specific sports.
• decision-making, personality, state-trait, arousal, stress, neuropsychological tests are possible areas for further development.
  a growing need for objective data and online testing

Our members Aleksandra Jaworowska and Sara Corral also presented issues involved in Classification and qualifications required for test supply.