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On February 10, 2025, the second theme day organized by the MentalGestärkt initiative and the Working Group for Sports Psychology (asp) took place at the German Sport University. Participants were treated to an engaging program centered on the topic of “Hate Speech and Social Media.” The event was…

Charleen Pach and coach Patrick Magnani from the TZ DSHS Cologne represented Germany in Manila. The nomination of gymnast Charleen Pach and coach Patrick Magnani for the Junior World Championships, held 21–24 November in Manila, was a special moment this fall for the Gymnastics Centre at the German…

For the mixed relay, the Allgemeine Deutsche Hochschulsportverband (adh) nominated Julia Bodenschatz (German Sport University Cologne), Jan Scheffold (University of Freiburg), Sophie Gießmann (IU International University of Applied Sciences), and Benedikt Bettin (University of Freiburg) for the…

In four weeks, the German Sport University Cologne will become the hub of international sports science: The GSUN’26 Summit will take place on campus on 7th and 8th October, 2026. This will be the first time the annual meeting of the Global Sport University Network (GSUN) is hosted in Europe. Those…

On 11 and 12 September 2025, this year’s GSUN’25 Summit , organised by the Global Sport University Network, took place at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Under the theme ‘Harnessing the Power of Sport for Innovation’ , international experts came together to discuss the role of…

The Förderfinder (Funding Finder) for elite athletes is now online and, for the first time, offers a centralised, systematic overview of individual athlete support schemes in Germany. At www.foerderfinder-sport.de , the platform brings together a wide range of support programmes – from financial…

Sport is everywhere – in live streams, on TikTok, in live updates. Yet traditional sports journalism is in crisis. The latest issue of the campus magazine *ZeitLupe* explores why this is the case. Sport is now an omnipresent social phenomenon – shaped to a large extent by media coverage. In the…

A new publication in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) spans more than half a century of sports medicine research: from the first concepts of the lactate threshold in 1976 to the computer simulation of an individual’s energy metabolism. Prof. Dr. Hermann Heck plays a central…

From the physical aptitude test to a sports degree programme — two videos chronicle the journey to the German Sport University Cologne. Studying sports — it’s a dream for many. But before they can get started, applicants to Germany’s only sports university must take the physical aptitude test: over…

How can values from sport be successfully applied to politics? And what role do digital media play in election campaigns? These questions will be the focus of an event organised by the German Sport University Cologne on Wednesday, 29 October 2025, at 3 pm in Lecture Theatre 1. Under the title…