Projects
Sport Policies in Active Cities - An international comparative governance perspective KU Leuven
Although there is an increasing amount of literature on public sport policies, most of this research concentrates on high performance and elite sport, national sport systems and sport organizations. Even with the significant changes and challenges that the urbanization process brings to planners, administrators and policy-makers and the emergent use of the term 'active cities' by local governments and organizations, most of the investigations ...
Research platform Sport Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Theme 2: Sport participation in Flanders
Theme 3: Monitoring development: from Multimove to Multisport.
Top sport and higher education in the Brussels-Capital Region Vrije Universiteit Brussel
SAFE-SPORT: for a safe sport climate in Flanders. Ghent University
Although the majority of organised sport participants enjoy the many health and social benefits of sport (Bjørnarå et al., 2021), organised sport, like other social sectors, is an environment in which interpersonal violence can take place. If sport is to continue to play its positive social role to the full, interpersonal violence must be prevented at all levels of sport. Although actions have recently been taken at the international and ...
Joint investigation by VUB (service support for student athletes) and the ULB (Ecole des Sports) to the combination of study and elite sport in colleges and universities of the Dutch-and French-speaking higher education in Brussels Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Promotion of physical, mental and social well-being in young people through organized sport clubs in Flanders. KU Leuven
Erasmus+ Key Action 2 : Promoting Mental health through the ENTourage in high-performance Sport (MENTIS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
is to help optimize mental health initiatives within European high-performance and talent development sports organizations. To this
end, the project will develop new community-based interventions targeting the athlete entourage (i.e., coaches, support staff, significant
others)
Responsible and sustainable management in sport organizations: Towards an integrated value(s) approach Ghent University
The United Nations developed 17 sustainable development goals (e.g., good health and well-being, reduced inequalities, and climate action) to be reached by 2030. Despite growing attention, scarce evidence exists about how sport can help to reach these sustainable development goals (Hugaerts et al., 2021; Schyvinck, 2021). This project will study sport’s role as an instrument for sustainable development in society, by examining how sport ...
Understanding the social impact of major sport events Vrije Universiteit Brussel
social impact of major sport events. The proposal starts from the notion
that hosting sport events can generate social benefits for host residents
if novel strategies are designed to make use of (leverage) the event
through sport-based interventions. This strategic process is referred to
as ‘social event leveraging’. To clarify the ...