Research platform Sport Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Theme 2: Sport participation in Flanders
Theme 3: Monitoring development: from Multimove to Multisport.
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 ...
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 ...
In sports, it is crucial to adapt to errors of teammates to achieve a good performance. However, despite the large literature on social error monitoring, the social error monitoring processes of athletes and coaches have received little attention. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying the processing of observed errors are still debated. A crucial factor which can shed further light on these theoretical accounts, is the relationship between ...
This project aims at the development of a predictive model for talent identification and development, based upon the combination of anthropometry, physical performance parameters, motor coordination, psychological characteristics, executive functions and environmental factors in young athletes. This multidimensional approach will lead to models with predictive power that is higher than currently available in research literature and practice. ...
The research platform Sport distinguishes three main research lines: policy monitoring, sport participation and the broad motor development in young children.