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Welcome Billy Graeff with us! We are looking forward to exchanging ideas and spending time with our visiting researcher from Brazil. As you read on, he briefly introduces himself and his work. "As part of my ongoing academic trajectory and international collaborations, I am delighted to join the…

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 days of the International Volunteer Games of New Acropolis. The Games began on 3 August and finished…

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 invites presentations by academics, postgraduates, students, practitioners, and policy makers from a…

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 Government, also sent his congratulations. As part of the two-semester, free supplementary qualification…

On 17th March, 2026, this year’s 26 graduates of the supplementary certification programme in physical education were honored. Lena Brack (Institute of Sport Didactics and Physical Education) and Anke Raabe-Oetker ( Institute for Movement Therapy and Movement-oriented Prevention and Rehabilitation)…

The BMBF-funded collaborative project ‘Kompetenznetzwerk Digitalisierung und Sport in der Lehrer*innenbildung: Vermittlung, Bildung und Lernen im und durch Sport“’ ( Com e Sport for short ) is gradually entering its final phase. In the summer of 2023, work began on jointly developing modularised…

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 universities and 16 universities of applied sciences are reporting their emissions in accordance with…

Every year, just before Christmas, the Aquatics Centre at the German Sport University Cologne is transformed into a special place of volunteerism and community. Once again, starting at 3:00 a.m., numerous students and supporters took part in the 12th “Christmas Sunrise Swim”, the traditional charity…

The three-year EU project “Zero Emission Rides Objectives” (ZERO) has been successfully completed. Eleven European partners, including the German Sport University Cologne, are working together to promote greater climate sustainability and awareness in winter sports. Research conducted by the German…

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 built these interinstitutional and personal synergies over time. Several graduates of the M.A. Olympic…