The climbing project of the Institute of Sports Science, the University Hospital Münster and the Children's Cancer Aid Münster e.V. was honored as a special project for children and young people at the award ceremony for the Citizens' Prize of the City of Münster. The special feature: Children and young people between the ages of 8 and 18 decide on the funding of the individual projects in the newly founded funding forum of the city of Münster. The climbing project was the only project to receive the maximum amount of funding.
Last week, Barbara Halberschmidt and Laura van de Loo's MA “Dual Career” seminar was able to take a look behind the scenes at SC Preußen. Sören Weinfurtner gave the course the opportunity to view various premises and watch the U19 team in training. One day later, the group returned to Berg Fidel to accept an invitation from the Uni Baskets. There, the group watched an exciting game against the Kirchheim Knights.
We say THANK YOU to everyone involved!
The University of Münster's sports mentoring project was highlighted as a forward-looking educational model at the OECD Global Forum on the Future of Education and Skills 2030 (10 to 13 October) in Japan. Dr Marie Ghanbari, initiator of the project from the Sports Psychology department, contributed her expertise in a separate article on empathy training, as reported by the Westfälische Nachrichten newspaper, among others.
The Erasmus project “PA4Age” was successfully completed with an international conference in Treviso, Italy on November 7, 2024. The project partners were able to present the developed learning platform and app on the topic of motivation and active ageing to numerous interested professionals from the sports and health sector as well as older adults.
Bernd Strauß and Heiko Wagner have been elected Vice Dean and Dean of Studies for a further two years in the Fachbereichsrat. At the meeting (13 November 2024) of the Executive Board, Heiko Wagner was elected Managing Director and Bernd Strauß Deputy Managing Director for a further year.
We congratulate them and wish them all the best for their further term of office.
In the BMBF project ComeSport, the Education and Culture in Sport and Education and Teaching in Sport departments are developing training courses for teachers on the subject of social media and body image in physical education. A meeting with other project partners has now taken place at Leipzig University. The first training sessions have already been tested.
From 29th to 30th October, the Kick-Off Camp of the TReND doctoral network took place at the University of Münster. TReND is an EU MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the EU, UKRI and SERI. We are happy to have had a successful and productive official start of the doctoral training programme with the TReND fellows and their supervisors. Of the twelve TReND fellows, seven fellows came to Münster with their supervisor(s), while three participated remotely. The kick-off camp was used to work on a theoretical framework for the research of the TReND consortium, but also for getting to know each other and growing as a consortium, which everyone really enjoyed!
In the new book ‘Psychology of Crises in Sport’ by Bernd Strauss, Stephanie Buenemann, Charlotte Behlau, Maike Tietjens and Katherine Tamminen, readers learn about the theoretical and empirical background of concepts related to crises. They then learn how apply this knowledge and these methods to prevent and cope crises. Well-known examples and case studies are used throughout the book to provide a comprehensive understanding of crises.
(Strauss, B., Buenemann, S., Behlau, C., Tietjens, M., & Tamminen, K. (Eds). (2024). Psychology of crises in sport. Springer)
