Vitality and social responsibility of voluntary sport clubs in the Netherlands

Abstract for European Association for Sport Management conference 2015 in Dublin. The aim of this research is to gain more insight in the vitality of voluntary sport clubs in the northern part of the Netherlands, where their vitality was based on the right to exist, orientation on the future and social responsibility

Factsheet vitaliteit sportverenigingen

Het afnemende marktaandeel van de sportverenigingen, de toename van professionele dienstverlenende sportorganisaties en verschillende maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen zorgen voor een veranderende vraag bij sporters en sportverenigingen. Bestuurders van sportverenigingen worden in toenemende mate geconfronteerd met complexe uitdagingen om het voortbestaan van de vereniging te garanderen. Daarnaast richt het overheidsbeleid zich steeds meer op de maatschappelijke rol van de vereniging en het principe van de Open Club. Maar hoe vitaal en open zijn de noordelijke sportverenigingen al? En hoe kijken de leden naar deze ontwikkeling? Inzicht hierin kan bijdragen aan het ontwikkelen en implementeren van interventies en scholingsmogelijkheden voor verenigingsbestuurders en -ondersteuners, waarmee de ondersteuning van de sportverenigingen in Noord-Nederland een impuls krijgt

Voluntary sport clubs and the social policy agenda

Local governments, traditionally an important partner of voluntary sport clubs in the Netherlands, are increasingly influencing clubs into involvement in social projects and activities. Although it is not clear what contribution sports clubs can play in this social policy agenda, or whether this agenda carries dangers of undermining the nature and strengths of these clubs (Coalter, 2007), more and more clubs in the Netherlands try to adapt to these demands. Sport clubs are no simple implementers of local social policy, they need autonomy to translate social activities to the local context and specific characteristics of the club to be successful (Skille, 2008). The aim of this study is to gain insight in the opinions of sport club members towards this upcoming social responsibility

Vitality of sport clubs in the Netherlands

Poster gepresenteerd tijdens European Association for Sport Management (EASM) conference in Dublin

Post-quantum TLS without handshake signatures

We present KEMTLS, an alternative to the TLS 1.3 handshake that uses key-encapsulation mechanisms (KEMs) instead of signatures for server authentication. Among existing post-quantum candidates, signature schemes generally have larger public key/signature sizes compared to the public key/ciphertext sizes of KEMs: by using an IND-CCA-secure KEM for server authentication in post-quantum TLS, we obtain multiple benefits. A size-optimized post-quantum instantiation of KEMTLS requires less than half the bandwidth of a size-optimized post-quantum instantiation of TLS 1.3. In a speed-optimized instantiation, KEMTLS reduces the amount of server CPU cycles by almost 90% compared to TLS 1.3, while at the same time reducing communication size, reducing the time until the client can start sending encrypted application data, and eliminating code for signatures from the server\u27s trusted code base