We warmly welcome Alina Kulüke and are delighted to have her join our institute as a new staff member. As a project researcher on the “ReLePro – Diversity in School Sports” project, she will be conduc
Marloes Ekkelboom, doctoral student at the Institute of Sport History, took part in the renowned annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport from October 30 to November
Professor Stephan Wassong, Director of the Olympic Studies Centre at the German Sport University Cologne and President of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (IPCC), attended the opening d
The 8th international Sport and Discrimination Conference examines the intersectional nature of discrimination in sport. This one-day event, 13 June 2025, at German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
On March 17, 2026, this year’s 26 graduates of the supplementary qualification in sports promotion were honored at a certificate ceremony. Elmar Kugel, a department head at the Cologne District Govern
A significant milestone has been reached with the first-ever joint reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by all higher education institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia: for the first time, 14 universi
It is encouraging to see how participants and professors of the M.A. Olympic Studies continue to shape the ever-evolving academic and educational profile of the IPCC. Prof. Wassong is proud to have bu
The Institute for Movement and Neuroscience once again hosted the annual conference for team physicians, physical therapists, and classifiers of the German Disabled Sports Association. From March 21–2
We are happy to share that Hilla Davidov, a past participant of the M.A. in Olympic Studies, has successfully completed her PhD at the German Sport University. Her dissertation, "The Bridge Between Pr