The Sport Empowers Disabled Youth 2 (SEDY2) project encourages inclusion and equal opportunities in sport for youth with a disability by raising their sports and exercise participation in inclusive settings. It was important to ensure that the authentic views, wishes and feelings of youth with a disability regarding inclusion in sport were attained. Therefore, online focus groups were conducted with youth with a disability, their parents and sport professionals in Finland, Lithuania, Portugal and The Netherlands. Seven themes regarding inclusion in sport have been identified from these interviews: having a choice, sense of belonging, everyone can participate, same rights and equality, acknowledge that everyone is unique, inclusion is an ongoing process and terminology (language) is challenging.
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The Sport Empowers Disabled Youth 2 (SEDY2) project encourages inclusion and equal opportunities in sport for youth with a disability by raising their sports and exercise participation in inclusive settings. It was important to ensure that the authentic views, wishes and feelings of youth with a disability regarding inclusion in sport were attained. Therefore, online focus groups were conducted with youth with a disability, their parents and sport professionals in Finland, Lithuania, Portugal and The Netherlands. During the online EUCAPA 2020 conference the preliminary results of these focus groups were presented.
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Vaak wordt sport gepositioneerd als ‘de belangrijkste bijzaak in het leven’. De vraag is echter of sport feitelijk voor veel mensen niet veel méér is. Sport is in onze samenleving een heel belangrijke bron van zingeving. Christenen, maar ook moslims en joden, zoeken zingeving vooral in iets dat de mens overstijgt. Maar zingeving kan ook een werelds karakter hebben. Mensen kunnen de betekenis en de waarde van hun leven ook ontlenen aan aardse zaken. Dan blijkt dat voor velen sport het leven zin geeft, omdat via sport belangrijke menselijke waarden gerealiseerd kunnen worden: gezondheid, presteren, genot, samenwerking en gezelligheid. In het verleden werd godsdienst een samenbindende kwaliteit en functie toegedicht in de samenleving. De grote socioloog Émile Durkheim wees erop dat mensen een wezenlijke behoefte hebben om 'deel uit te maken van een groter samenlevingsverband'. Godsdienst heeft in de geschiedenis altijd een belangrijke rol gespeeld in het bevredigen van deze behoefte, aldus Durkheim. De vraag is of sport deze rol (deels) heeft overgenomen. Volgens Ruud Stokvis draagt sport bij aan morele vorming, sociale binding én zingeving. Ook de wereld van de sportmarketing maakt gebruik van het feit dat sport een belangrijke bron voor zingeving is
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MUSE supports the CIVITAS Community to increase its impact on urban mobility policy making and advance it to a higher level of knowledge, exchange, and sustainability.As the current Coordination and Support Action for the CIVITAS Initiative, MUSE primarily engages in support activities to boost the impact of CIVITAS Community activities on sustainable urban mobility policy. Its main objectives are to:- Act as a destination for knowledge developed by the CIVITAS Community over the past twenty years.- Expand and strengthen relationships between cities and stakeholders at all levels.- Support the enrichment of the wider urban mobility community by providing learning opportunities.Through these goals, the CIVITAS Initiative strives to support the mobility and transport goals of the European Commission, and in turn those in the European Green Deal.Breda University of Applied Sciences is the task leader of Task 7.3: Exploitation of the Mobility Educational Network and Task 7.4: Mobility Powered by Youth Facilitation.
Diverse partijen, zowel marktpartijen als kennisinstellingen, gaan in 2020 samenwerken in een pilot om te toetsen in hoeverre zij de plant kardoen (familie van de artisjok distel) in haar volle potentieel kunnen gebruiken voor diverse commerciële doeleinden, zoals bloemen, voedsel, composiet en een lamp. Er wordt in deze pilot onderzoek gedaan naar: - Gebruik van reststromen als bodemverbeteraar - Teelt van kardoen - Verwerking van kardoen
The focus of this project is on improving the resilience of hospitality Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by enabling them to take advantage of digitalization tools and data analytics in particular. Hospitality SMEs play an important role in their local community but are vulnerable to shifts in demand. Due to a lack of resources (time, finance, and sometimes knowledge), they do not have sufficient access to data analytics tools that are typically available to larger organizations. The purpose of this project is therefore to develop a prototype infrastructure or ecosystem showcasing how Dutch hospitality SMEs can develop their data analytic capability in such a way that they increase their resilience to shifts in demand. The one year exploration period will be used to assess the feasibility of such an infrastructure and will address technological aspects (e.g. kind of technological platform), process aspects (e.g. prerequisites for collaboration such as confidentiality and safety of data), knowledge aspects (e.g. what knowledge of data analytics do SMEs need and through what medium), and organizational aspects (what kind of cooperation form is necessary and how should it be financed).Societal issueIn the Netherlands, hospitality SMEs such as hotels play an important role in local communities, providing employment opportunities, supporting financially or otherwise local social activities and sports teams (Panteia, 2023). Nevertheless, due to their high fixed cost / low variable business model, hospitality SMEs are vulnerable to shifts in consumer demand (Kokkinou, Mitas, et al., 2023; Koninklijke Horeca Nederland, 2023). This risk could be partially mitigated by using data analytics, to gain visibility over demand, and make data-driven decisions regarding allocation of marketing resources, pricing, procurement, etc…. However, this requires investments in technology, processes, and training that are oftentimes (financially) inaccessible to these small SMEs.Benefit for societyThe proposed study touches upon several key enabling technologies First, key enabling technology participation and co-creation lies at the center of this proposal. The premise is that regional hospitality SMEs can achieve more by combining their knowledge and resources. The proposed project therefore aims to give diverse stakeholders the means and opportunity to collaborate, learn from each other, and work together on a prototype collaboration. The proposed study thereby also contributes to developing knowledge with and for entrepreneurs and to digitalization of the tourism and hospitality sector.Collaborative partnersHZ University of Applied Sciences, Hotel Hulst, Hotel/Restaurant de Belgische Loodsensociëteit, Hotel Zilt, DM Hotels, Hotel Charley's, Juyo Analytics, Impuls Zeeland.
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Lectoraat, onderdeel van NHL Stenden Hogeschool
Lectoraat, onderdeel van NHL Stenden Hogeschool