On June 17, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veysel Alcan from Tarsus University (Engineering and Health Research Group) visited the Department of Movement Science as a guest scholar. During his visit, he presented his current research projects and engaged in an inspiring exchange with our team.
In turn, the department introduced its own research foci and ongoing projects. The discussions revealed significant thematic overlaps and promising opportunities for future collaboration.
We look forward to continuing our dialogue and initiating joint research activities in the near future.

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As part of an ERASMUS+ project, a group of Year 10 students from the Kopernikus Gymnasium in Rheine visited us together with students from their Finnish partner school “Sotunkin Lukio” in Vantaa, near Helsinki. After a short introduction on movement science, the pupils were allowed to get active themselves. Led by Christiane Bohn and Tabea Christ, they tried out various movement and balance experiments in small groups, where they were able to get to know and try out our modern measuring equipment such as force plates and the Qualisys motion capture system. Under the motto of the exchange “Sport connects”, the visit offered the two classes lively access to scientific issues relating to motor skills and motion analysis and also promoted exchange between the young people from both countries.
 

Prof. Michael Brach, Ellen Bentlage, Zhao Liu and Sabine Steidel from the Movement Science department, as well as Prof. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Piesie Akwasi Gyimah Asuako and Vera Belkin from the Neuromotor Behaviour and Exercise department attended the self-organised PhysAgeNet final event at the Karadinez Technical University in Trabzon, Türkiye. They contributed in various roles over four days to the workshops and the PhysAgeNet/EGRAPA scientific conference on the topic of “Evidence-based physical activity in old age – are we closing the gaps”. Further information can be accessed here:
www.physagenet.eu
https://www.egrapa.org
https://www.ktu.edu.tr/en