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Session report from the 23rd annual congress of the European College of Sport Science held in Dublin, Ireland – July 4th<\/sup> \u2013 7th<\/sup> 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The annual congress of the European College of Sport Science was held in Dublin, Ireland this July. The congress, hosted by University College Dublin and Ulster University had more than 3000 attending sport scientists from all over the world. This year, the congress theme was \u201cSport Science at the Cutting Edge\u201d, with the local organizing committee aiming to provide opportunities for delegates to learn from, and contribute to, the latest developments in Sports and Exercise science in a stimulating social and professional setting.<\/p>\n Part of the multidisciplinary academic program was the invited session in social science and humanities titled \u201cSocial Inclusion through Sport: Analyzing Effective Interventions and Policies to tackle Social Exclusion\u201d chaired by Professor Reinhard Haudenhuyse from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Included in the session were three academic contributions:<\/p>\n In the session\u2019s first presentation, Professor Haudenhuyse argued that it is difficult to determine the effectiveness and impact of sport-based interventions aimed at social issues. Using examples from the research project \u2018CATCH \u2013 Community Sports for At-Risk Youth: Innovative strategies for promoting personal development, health and social cohesion\u2019, professor Haudenhuyse demonstrated how social inclusion is often defined in relation to social exclusion, and as such, remains undefined. Furthermore, how social exclusion in sport interventions is a vague concept that lacks a general definition. As a consequence, sport-for-inclusion\/sport for all policies run the risk of becoming \u2018merely\u2019 about raising participation rates of specific target groups. As a conclusion to his presentation, Professor Haudenhuyse called for new research projects that challenge simplistic, elitist and individualistic perspectives on sport and social inclusion\/exclusion.<\/p>\n The second part of the session program was a debate session created by Dr. Holly Collison. Here, Dr. Collison used empirical examples from a comparative research project of sport for development programs (SDP) in five international locations: Kosovo, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, and Zambia. All of these SDP had three primary themes: 1) human rights, 2) peacebuilding and 3) reconciliation and disability. With this background, the attending delegates at the session discussed five statements\/questions:Sport for development (or social inclusion) programs mainly give voice to (male) individuals with athletic ability or sporting interests, and thus fail to be fundamentally inclusive.<\/p>\n Lastly, my presentation on collaboration between public sector agents and volunteer sport organizations in social inclusion programs was up.\u00a0 This presentation was based on a research project with a qualitative approach consisting of interviews with 32 public sector employees and leaders in public health departments at a County and at a municipality level in Norway. The aim of the project was to investigate how public sector agents collaborate with volunteer sport organizations to promote social inclusion in sport and physical activity. Based on the analysis of the material, in my presentation, I argued that while public sector agents see volunteer sport organizations as highly valuable assets for public health work and claim to collaborate a great deal with volunteer sport organizations, the forms of collaboration between public and volunteer sectors are limited. Often, these \u2018collaborations\u2019 involve public sector funding some of the activities of volunteer sport clubs. Hence, it is neither innovative or collaborative. Furthermore, the public sector agents have limited knowledge of the effect and durability of the activities they fund. Concluding my presentation, I highlighted that this project point to three main findings: 1) there are some incompatible logics of sport, health, and inclusion between public and volunteer sector, 2) public sector agents are influenced by cultural narratives of the health benefits of participating in volunteer sport clubs and 3) public sector agents appear to have unrealistic expectations of volunteer sport organizations.<\/p>\n Session report from the 23rd annual congress of the European College of Sport Science held in Dublin, Ireland – July 4th \u2013 7th 2018 The annual congress of the European College of Sport Science was held in Dublin, Ireland this July. 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