Last Friday, the Department of Movement Science, formerly Sport Biomechanics at the Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences (IfS) at the University of Münster, celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark this special occasion, current and former staff members gathered for a festive reunion. We were especially pleased to welcome Professor Klaus Nicol as our guest of honor. Between 1979 and 2001, he played a key role in establishing and successfully developing the Chair of Sport Biomechanics. 

The growing interest in sport science research among school students is becoming increasingly evident. In the past four weeks alone, three different advanced physical education courses from Münster and the surrounding area visited our Open Lab. The students took the opportunity to gain insights into the field of movement science and experience research first-hand.

In an interview with the university newspaper wissen|leben, Maike Elbracht explains how the sports degree programme at the University of Münster prepares future swimming teachers to competently address the challenges facing schools and society with regard to swimming and swimming skills.

We were thrilled to welcome Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim and the TerraX team back to our OpenLab! This time, it was all about the follow-up: After several weeks of dance training, we repeated the measurements to see what had changed.