Dr. Maximilian Seltmann

Beruflich

Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln
Institut für Europäische Sportentwicklung und Freizeitforschung

• 4/2025 - heute
  Projektkoordinator und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter BISp Spo-Fo Map
• 1/2023 - heute
  Projektkoordinator und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Erasmus+ SOPROS
• 1/2021 – 12/2022
  Projektkoordinator und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
  Erasmus+ EMPLOYS
• 7/2019 – heute
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Studiengangskoordinator
  M.A. Internationale Sportentwicklung und Politik
• 4/2017 – 6/2019
  Studentische Hilfskraft

Leichtathletik-Team Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln

• 6/2012 – 2/2021
  Haupttrainer für unter 14- und 16jährige, Geschäftsführungsassistent

Akademisch

• 2019 – 2025
  Promotionsstudium an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln, Institut für Europäische Sportentwicklung und Freizeitforschung
  Titel der Dissertation: "Rising Actors on the Sport-Political Stage? An Institutional Analysis of Athlete-Centred Sport Governance"
• 2016 – 2019
  M.A. Internationale Sportentwicklung und Politik
  Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln
• 2012 – 2016
  B.A. Sport Management und Kommunikation
  Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln

• 1/2023 - heute
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Erasmus+ Projekt "Assessing, Evaluating, and Implementing Athletes' Social Protection in Olympic Sports" (SOPROS)
• 7/2022 - heute
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projekt "Social Dialogue for Professional Sports in Europe" (SDE Pro)
• 1/2021 – 12/2022
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Erasmus+ Projekt "Understanding, Evaluating and Improving Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe" (EMPLOYS)
• 4/2017 – 12/2019
  Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Erasmus+ Projekt "Promoting and Supporting Good Governance in the European Football Agents Industry"
• 4/2017 – 12/2018
  Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Erasmus+ Projekt "National Sports Governance Observer" (NSGO)

Publikationen

• Mittag, J., Seltmann, M., Hofmann, L., Smokvina, V., Zembura P., Haas, L., Cattaneo, A. (Hrsg.) (2025), Elite Athletes’ Social Protection in Olympic Sports in Europe: An Evaluation of the Status Quo, DOI: 10.25847/sopros.01.2025
• Seltmann, M. (2025): Different worlds of athlete welfare? A social policy perspective on elite sport in six European countries, International Journal of Sport, Policy and Politics, DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2025.2583977
• McNamee, M., ..., Seltmann, M. et al. (2023): Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport - Final report.
• Mittag, J., Seltmann, M., Fiege, L. et al. (2022): Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe: Understanding - Evaluating - Improving. Rijeka: University of Rijeka.
• Mittag, J., Seltmann, M., Fiege, L. et al. (2022): Understanding the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe: Fact Report. Rijeka: University of Rijeka.
• Seltmann, M. (2021): The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 38 (10-11).
• Seltmann, M. (2021): Disrupting Institutional Reproduction? How Olympic Athletes Challenge the Stability of the Olympic Movement, Sport und Gesellschaft / Sport and Society, 18 (1).
• Camara, P. M. & Seltmann, M. (2018): The Gambia, in Hallmann, K. & Fairley, S. (Eds.): Sport Volunteers Around the Globe: Meaning and Understanding of Volunteering and Its Societal Impact, Springer, pp. 93-102.

Vorträge

• Workshop Strengthening Athlete Power in Sport, Good Governance in Athletes' Employment Relations, Arnhem, 10/2023.
• 2023 Sport & EU Conference, 'Different Worlds of Athlete Welfare? A Comparative Analysis of National Elite Sport Programmes from an Athlete-Centred Perspective', Lisbon, 07/2023.
• 2022 Play the Game Conference in on 'Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Olympic Athletes', Odense, 07/2022.
• 2022 Sport & EU Conference, 'Conceptualizing Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports', Lausanne, 06/2022.
• Erasmus+ Multiplier Sport Events at University of Warsaw, Université de Lausanne, University of Rijeka, Edge Hill University, Universidade Europeia, and the European Committee of the Regions Cologne (Oct 2021 - Dec 2022)
• Play the Game Conference 2019, Giving Athletes Veto Power: Game Theory and Policy-Making in German Sport, Colorado Springs, 11/2019.
• Erasmus+ Multiplier Sport Event, Licensing and Qualification of Football Player Agents, Cologne, 02/2019.