About us

We are the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS). An initiative that brings together, within the Amsterdam UMC, two Dutch leading academic groups on research and clinical practice of athlete health protection. The ACHSS initiative is one of the 11 IOC Research Centers for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health.

Through this website we will keep you updated on our own research and others' who deal with these topics.

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EuroFit

More Healthy With & Through Football

February 06, 2019 in Publications, Healthy Lifestyle

Reducing sitting time as well as increasing physical activity in inactive people is beneficial for their health. Today we published an Article in PLoS Medicine about the effects of the European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) programme to improve physical activity and sedentary time in male football fans, delivered through the professional football setting.

EuroFit 'trailer'

October 05, 2016 in Healthy Lifestyle, Projects

Just today the latest 'trailer' on the EuroFit project got released. This video introduces the EuroFit FP7 project - an EU funded research project that seeks to improve men's health by leveraging their ambition to their football clubs.