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The logic behind the initiatives of national governing bodies in Flanders to improve organised youth sport Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Margot Ricour, Veerle De Bosscher, Simon Shibli

Regular involvement in organised youth sport boosts the likelihood of lifelong sport participation. However, increasing dropout rates in sport clubs and alarming levels of young people not meeting physical activity guidelines may suggest that the organised sport sector’s efforts have been insufficient to date. This situation calls for evaluation of the applicable youth sport policy to determine how organised youth sport is intended to operate ...

Elite youth sport policy and dual career support services in 15 countries Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Veerle De Bosscher, Camilla Brocket, Hans Westerbeek
Over the past decades, competition has increased, athletes train longer and more national and international championships are organized for young athletes. Responding to this increasing performance pressure for athletes, several countries have established programmes to support talent identification and talent development. A plethora of studies have attempted to understand what determines success for talented youth at the micro-level (individual ...

The potential of sports-based social interventions for vulnerable youth: implications for sport coaches and youth workers Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Reinhard Haudenhuyse, Marc Theeboom, Fred Coalter
Sports have long been viewed as an opportunity to actively engage young people
in a leisure context and not just in terms of participation in sports activities, but
across a range of issues including education, employment and training,
community leadership and healthy lifestyles. Although there are some indications
that when working towards broader outcomes with socially vulnerable youth a
specific methodology is ...

HIV prevention through sport: the case of the Mathare Youth Sport Association in Kenya Ghent University

Bert Meulders, Wim Delva, Sandy Groeninck, Kristien Michielsen, Marleen Temmerman, Bart Vanreusel
Background & Objectives In Kenya, some progress was registered with declines in new HIV infections and prevalence rates – the latest figures show an estimated adult (15-49 year) infection rate between 7.1% and 8.5% (UNAIDS, 2008) – but the epidemic remains a threat to the development of Kenyan society, especially after outbursts of violence following the elections of December 2008. Some of the preventive efforts have been done at grassroots ...

The value of intersectoral partnerships in sport : promoting sport participation, physical activity, social capital and mental health through a sport development program in disadvantaged communities Ghent University

Mathieu Marlier
Societal changes in the 20th and 21st century have led to a bigger gap between rich and poor, an increased social diversity and a decrease in social cohesion and social capital in our Western civilization. These changes cause multidimensional challenges for sport, social, health, youth and cultural sectors that cannot be handled by a single organisation and call for an integrated approach. One of these challenges is including ethnic minorities ...

Youth Olympic Games: challenges and impact on the different youth sports policies of the world Ghent University

Steffie Lucidarme, Marc Maes
It was during the IOC session in Guatemala City in July 2007 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to conceive a new sporting event for young athletes. The idea of organising the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) was purposed to the IOC executive board by Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC himself. (IOC, 2009). The first YOG will be held in Singapore in August 2010. Notwithstanding all the good and enviable intentions the IOC has in ...

Teaching traditional Chinese martial arts to contemporary Chinese youth – a qualitative study with youth wushu coaches in China Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Yueyi Jia, Marc Theeboom, Zhu Dong

Background and Study Aim: Wushu, the collective noun for Chinese martial arts, is one of the most prominent traditional sports in China and is generally recognised as the origin of most Asian martial arts (e.g. judo, karate, taekwondo). Wushu practice is characterised by a strenuous and often repetitive approach, and in recent years it has become less appealing to today’s Chinese youth. In China there are two types of wushu organisations ...

The first Youth Olympic Games: innovations, challenges and ethical issues Ghent University

Jim Parry, Steffie Lucidarme
In 1990, the President of the European Association of National Olympic Committees, Jacques Rogge, inaugurated the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), held for the first time in Brussels in 1991. The athletes were between 15 and 18 years, from 33 different countries, and competed in 10 summer sports. Two years later the first EYOF for winter sports was held in Aosta (Italy), and since then the event has taken place both in summer and winter ...

Sports initiatives for socially deprived youth in Flanders (Belgium): the impact of Euro 2000 on the ‘Neighbourhood Sports Project of Mechelen’. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Marc Theeboom
As a result of a shift towards a 'target group approach' within local sports policy in which sport is no longer only regarded as an activity in itself, but also as a means for personal and social development of disadvantaged groups (especially youth), specific sports initiatives have been set up in Flanders, the northern Dutch speaking part of Belgium, since the late 1980s aimed at underprivileged youth. In 1988, the 'King Baudouin Foundation' ...

Quality and performance management of national sport organizations: measuring and steering the performance of the distribution network Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jo Van Hoecke, Hugo Schoukens, Paul De Knop
A number of national sport federations and professional leagues have introduced the 'Professional Academy Support System' (PASS) as their system of quality assurance regarding youth development. They are working with Double PASS - a spin-off of the University of Brussels - for the objective auditing of the academies in their clubs. The role of this independent standards organisation (ISO) is to measure the actual and potential performance of ...