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On June 25, 2026, Jelle Habay successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "The response to mental fatigue: clarifying the range and origin of interindividual variability". Promotors: Prof. Dr. Bart Roelands (MFYS-VUB), Dr. Jeroen Van Cutsem and Prof. Dr.

Training systems for young athletes, sports policy, and frameworks for health checks in Europe. Prof. Kevin De Pauw is honored to be part of the international expert panel for the national Latvian research program "Sport" at the RSU Laboratory for Sport and Nutrition Research.

The SportsComp project’s three e-learning courses developed in Work Package 3 are ready. Development of the courses took place during a 9-month period, between June 2024 - March 2025. The three e-learning courses were developed based on the competency update of Work Package 2.

We have launched our new BLITS website! Take a quick look at https://blits.vub.be/. 

The SportsComp Erasmus+ project. An initial WP2 Protocol Overview: The International and Multidisciplinary Delphi and Qualitative Study.

We are thrilled to introduce the scientific board at 4Gold, comprised of 6 exceptional individuals including Prof. Dr.

We are pleased to announce that the Erasmus+ collaborative project, Higher Education to Improve Competence in Sports Physiotherapy (SportsComp), has been awarded €400,000 for a 3-year international project.

Kick-off Backyard Project with world-class ultra-endurance athletes.  In the picture Merijn Geerts with a personal record of 677km.  Stay tuned for more info. 

VUB professor Bart Roelands heads the Human Physiology and Sports Physiotherapy research group. One of his specialisations is thermoregulation.    The heater is a lot lower, at home and at work. Some don't even turn on the heating. How should you dress?   That is not difficult.

Falls are a major problem associated with ageing. Yet, fall-risk classification models identifying older adults at risk are lacking.