Sport injuries are most often caused by overstraining. Injuries not only have an impact on the quality of life of athletes but can also incur high costs to sports clubs, due to the players’ absence. The main goal is to have a tool, which can advise trainers to optimise training per individual athlete …

Aspects of involvement in sports and active leisure in an organized context have been extensively investigated, but none of these studies provides a comprehensive picture of the membership involvement of members in voluntary clubs (MI). Our research aims to obtain an overview of existing knowledge on …

Virtual communities are online spaces with potential of integration of (member-generated) content and conversations [7,8]. In our research project we are interested in the adoption and building of virtual communities in organized sports, that is to say in the voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) in the Netherlands. …

This thesis is about volunteer motivation and engagement. The research elaborates on the motivation and engagement of volunteers in the project InduS. Nowadays, a world without volunteers cannot be imagined. They get more and more important in every aspect of social life, for example volunteers are …

Factsheet van het tweede werkpakket waarin door middel van case studies en focus groepen met verenigingsondersteuners een competentieprofiel voor de verenigingsontwikkelaar werd gemaakt. Kerntaak van de verenigingsondersteuner is om bij te dragen aan 'vitalisering' (het maatschappelijk toerusten en toekomstbestendig …

Factsheet vanuit het eerste werkpakket van het RAAK project 'vitalisering van de sportvereniging'. Kerntaak van de verenigingsondersteuner is om bij te dragen aan 'vitalisering' (het maatschappelijk toerusten en toekomstbestendig maken) van de sportvereniging. De sportvereniging heeft daarbij niet alleen …

Research to indicators to build a typology of virtual communities in organized sports.

Background: Health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) promotion programs are implemented in sports clubs. The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of the insufficiently active participants that benefit from these programs. Methods: Data of three sporting programs, developed for insufficiently …

Social Networking Sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter are increasingly implemented in voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) as channels for organizational communication. By using SNSs, the sports clubs are, in fact, building virtual, online communities as an extra ‘communication …