The cooperation project with the university hospital took place again in Kleinwalsertal in March. Students from Module 10 were involved in the project. The team, led by Eike Boll, offered ski courses at all skill levels for the 22 participating children and young people and their families and was also able to adequately resolve therapy-related restrictions. As a pilot project, two of the participating patients were tested in advance using the "Movement Assessment Battery for Children (M-ABC-2)" motor skills test. Initial results in the re-test showed strikingly positive results, particularly in the area of balance.
The Special Olympics National Games will take place in Münster from 22 May to 25 May 2024. The organisers are still looking for motivated helpers who can support them in exciting and varied activities.
Registration and further information can be found here.
The FaBiS (Fachliche Bildung im Sportunterricht) project group with Prof. Dr Ilka Lüsebrink (PH Freiburg), Prof. Dr Vera Volkmann (Uni Hannover) and Prof. Dr Petra Wolters (Uni Vechta) came together at the Sports Institute at the invitation of JProf. Dr Helga Leineweber (Uni Münster) for the third working meeting. Over the course of two days, the staging of exercise processes in PE lessons and the resulting activities of the learners were analysed using instructional videos. The results will be presented at a conference in the summer.
Announcement Special Olympics Research Day on 22 May 2024 The fifth Special Olympics NRW State Games will take place in Münster in May 2024. On the occasion of this event, we would like to invite you to a scientific research day immediately beforehand. The aim of this day is to bring together and discuss the current state of knowledge on the topic of sport by and with people with intellectual and multiple disabilities from different perspectives and disciplines and to exchange ideas with each other. Further information can be found here.
The weekly event series "Olympia" in spring/summer 2024 will take place on Mondays from 16.00 to 18.00 (start: 08.04.2024 | end: 08.07.2024) in seminar room Ho101.
The event takes place hybrid. After registering, you will automatically receive a Zoom link by e-mail.
The "Education and Culture" department is looking for a student assistant (approx. 6-8 hours/week) to start as soon as possible.
If you are interested, you can apply to Junior Professor Dr. Helga Leineweber by February 20 with a short letter of motivation stating the number of semesters, IT skills and other previous knowledge.
The cooperation project between the Institute of Sports Science and Münster University Hospital, led by Eike Boll, is being expanded to include climbing and bouldering. The aim is to introduce children and young people with cancer to new exercise options. Students from the Institute of Sports Science support this project by teaching safety techniques and accompanying all participants on their way to independent climbing.
As part of the BMBF joint project ComeSport, the kick-off meeting of ComeNet 5 on the topic of "Body images and social media in school sport" took place from 2 to 3 November in Münster. The meeting focussed on deepening the joint research work and preparing the upcoming work phases.
The universities of Leipzig, Münster and Paderborn are involved in the project. The Institute of Sport Science was represented by staff from the Education and Culture in Sport and Education and Teaching in Sport departments.
On September 13 and 14, this year's second research meeting of the project team on "Subject-based Education in Sport", FaBiS for short, took place. The focus was on the joint research work, in which exercise processes in physical education were analyzed on the basis of instructional videos. In addition, initial preparations were made for a research proposal. Four universities are involved in the project: Ilka Lüsebrink (missing on the photo) from PH Freiburg, Vera Volkmann from the University of Hildesheim, Helga Leineweber from the University of Münster and Petra Wolters from the University of Vechta.
From August 10 to 11, the conference of the Accident Insurance Fund NRW took place at the WTB Sports School. The topic was the sensitization of teacher trainees with regard to children and adolescents who are unsafe (using the example of school sports) as a challenge in teacher training.
Eike Boll (AB Education and Culture in Sport) led a practical workshop this year. The subject leaders of sport of the training location in Westphalia got an insight into differentiated movement possibilities in the area of the backstroke games and discussed these.
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As part of the BMBF's ComeSport joint project, the Education and Culture in Sport and Education and Teaching in Sport work areas have approved a project on the digitalization of sports teacher training.
The project addresses the question of how physical education teachers can address students' body images, which are influenced by social media.
Do you want to be up close and personal at the Paralympics 2024 in Paris? Then apply now as a young reporter for the Paralympics Zeitung.
The Paralympics Zeitung is a joint project of the Tagesspiegel and the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV). We are looking for young and committed journalists with a keen interest in journalism who would like to report on the Games in Paris.
The Special Olympics World Games will take place in Berlin from 17.06. to 25.06.2023.
Already last week (12.06.-15.06.2023) the delegation from the Netherlands was welcomed and hosted in Münster in the course of the 'Host-Town-Program'.
In an interview with Münster aktiv, Junior Professor Dr. Helga Leineweber explains the significance of the Special Olympics in connection with inclusion and inclusive sports.
At the world's largest inclusive sports event, the Special Olympics World Games, several thousand athletes with intellectual and multiple disabilities compete with and against each other in 26 sports.
This year, the Special Olympics World Games will take place in Berlin from June 17 to 25, 2023, and thus for the first time in Germany.
As part of the project seminar "Special Olympics", the Sports Institute will also participate in the Host Town Project in Münster from June 12 to 15, 2023. A subsequent visit to the Special Olympics World Games is also part of it.
The fifth State Games of Special Olympics NRW for people with intellectual and multiple disabilities will take place in Münster from May 22-25, 2024. For this purpose, the joint framework agreement was signed by the Lord Mayor Markus Lewe and the President of Special Olympics NRW - Gerhard Stiens - on May 22, 2023. The event is expected to attract 7,000 athletes and showcase 18 sports. Students are also welcome to attend.
Junprof. Dr. Helga Leineweber coordinates the implementation of the event with a working group, consisting of all work areas, at the IfS.
Within the framework of a staged integration project, the barriers to entry into club sports are to be structurally evaluated and approaches to eliminating them sought, the solutions found are to be introduced and established through practice-oriented localization, and the sustainable anchoring in club sports is to be evaluated.
For this a wiss. Accompaniment is looked for. If you are interested, please contact us for further information.
As part of a cooperation project between the DSHS Cologne, the University of Leipzig and the WWU Münster, joint digital teaching events again took place during the week of December 12-16.
The teaching cooperation developed in the course of the project Schulsport 2030 (School Sport 2030) within the framework of the Quality Offensive Teacher Education and has now established itself as a fixed component of the teaching program at the three locations.
Helga Leineweber has been teaching and researching as an juniorprofessor at the Institute of Sport Science since September 2022, where she heads the research area Education and Culture in Sport. The work area was established for the winter semester 2022/23 and thus represents the most recent expansion at the Institute of Sport Science and underscores the importance of qualified (training) education for future sport teachers.
