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Reception at City Hall for international students On 9 October, the City of Cologne, together with Cologne’s universities and the Cologne Student Services Organisation, welcomed the new international students at the Historic Town Hall. The German Sport University Cologne was represented there in…

On October 8, 2025, at the MixedZone event hosted by SID and Sky Deutschland in Cologne, Jens Kleinert shared with participants that mental strength is a very complex topic that affects our abilities, our mindset, and our resilience. A key message was that mental strength and mental health issues…

With the Junior Researchers' Awards 2026 (award for young researchers), the German Sport University Cologne recognises the high academic standard and innovative spirit of early-career researchers and highlights the importance of outstanding research achievements in sports science. The award is…

The University Electoral Assembly has also elected Prof. Dr Claudia Steinberg as Vice-Rector for Resources and Sustainable Development. The German Sport University Cologne is setting the course for its future leadership: the University Electoral Assembly has elected Kai Viebahn as the new Chancellor…

Professor Dr Karen Petry, Deputy Head of the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies , holds a UNESCO Chair. Together with PhD student Alana Richardson, she travelled to the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in Canada from 11 to 15 August 2025 to work on the further…

Five institutes at the German Sport University Cologne and other international partners are collaborating on the COSMOS project. Their goal is to develop a fully integrated, two-year international master’s programme in Community Sport and Movement for Social Transformation (COSMOS). The project’s…

On November 12, 2024, the team from the Department of Sports Pedagogy at the University of Wuppertal, led by Prof. Frohn, hosted the 17th Wuppertal School Sports Symposium at the Unihalle.

How Age and Fatigue Affect Safety in Crowds How do people move when space becomes limited? And what role do age and fatigue play in this? Researchers at the German Sport University Cologne and the Forschungszentrum Jülich are conducting experiments to investigate how age distribution and fatigue…

On January 28 and 29 the World Boxing Workshop took place in Frankfurt, bringing together a diverse group of participants, including many from the M.A. Olympic Studies Programme, as well as Mr. Breno Pontes, Head of the IOC`s Paris Boxing Unit. Prof. Wassong held a presentation and the event sparked…

On Sunday, September 28, 2025, the Olympic Studies Centre at the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) hosted a special dual event: the graduation ceremony for graduates of the M.A. in Olympic Studies and the official opening of the program’s 10th cohort. The evening was opened by the Rector of the…