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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 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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Prof. Dr. Markus Raab, head of the Department of Performance Psychology, has signed a new three-year contract (2026–2028) as editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise . He will continue to share the editorship with Co-Editor Prof. Amanda Rebar (USA). Psychology of…

As part of the inter-university research project “Rassismus im Spitzensport - Racism in Elite Sports , ” led by Prof. Tina Nobis (University of Wuppertal) and Prof. Ilse Hartmann-Tews (German Sport University Cologne), the lecture “Rassismus im Spitzensport: Zum Erleben von Othering durch Schwarze…