TY - THES AU - de Boer, Max T1 - Social Youth Development Through Sports T4 - Analysis of the ENGSO Youth’s Liaison Potential in Youth sport: From National to the European Level DA - 2015 CY - Chur PB - Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Chur A3 - Burk, Walter AB - The European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation Youth (ENGSO Youth) is the non-governmental umbrella youth organisation of the ENGSO, which is the European umbrella organisation of national sports confederations and National Olympic Committees (NOCs). ENGSO Youth’s mission is to give youth a real say in sports through promoting and supporting sport, health and participation of young people as well as volunteering and international cooperation in the youth sport sector in liaison with its national member organisations. Therefore, a strong liaison between ENGSO Youth and its national youth member organisations is fundamental to pursue this mission, however not yet researched upon. Hence, the focus on this individual bachelor thesis will be on the potential of the collaboration between ENGSO Youth and one of its most important drivers the German Sport Youth (DSJ) with the first aim to illustrate the outcome of this liaison. Based on the findings, the second aim is to weigh if the youth sport sector in Switzerland, as they are not yet part of ENGSO, could participate on the European level. As a result, the third aim is to give clear recommendations for the steps towards this involvement. These aims will be achieved with a qualitative research design and methodology in form of interviews with members of ENGSO Youth, the DSJ, the Swiss Federal Department for Sport (BASPO) and Swiss Olympic. M3 - Bachelorarbeit Tourismus M4 - Citavi ER -