Members

The W.J.H. Mulier Institute is a national Centre for Research on Sport in Society in the Netherlands. The institute is a not-for profit foundation founded in 2002 by four Universities in the Netherlands and an existing sport research enterprise. The research executed comprises a broad field of subjects e.g. sport participation, sport and health, sport and education, (elite) sport and media, social inclusion, quality management in sport and physical education.  

Research projects are partly financed by the government, partly through commissions from communities, NOC*NSF and other sport organisations. In the area of employment and (vocational) education the institute is active/ has been active in research concerning:  

1.  the development of a labour market monitoring system (i.c.w. IVA Tilburg)  
2. implementation of a national qualification structure of competency based education in sport 
3.  development of methods for validation of formal and informal learning 
4. quality assurance and management in sport.  

In line with this expertise the involvement of the institute in the EQS project will be concentrated on: 

•    ECVET: Conceiving and testing a methodology for the creation of units of competences in the sport sector; 
•    ECVET: Conceiving and testing a methodology for the weighting of credits in the sport sector.

The role they will take in the project is to support the lead partners within the work packages they will be a key organisation in the dissemination and implementation of the interim and final results in the Netherlands.