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Last week, Barbara Halberschmidt and Laura van de Loo's MA “Dual Career” seminar was able to take a look behind the scenes at SC Preußen. Sören Weinfurtner gave the course the opportunity to view various premises and watch the U19 team in training. One day later, the group returned to Berg Fidel to accept an invitation from the Uni Baskets. There, the group watched an exciting game against the Kirchheim Knights.
We say THANK YOU to everyone involved!

The University of Münster's sports mentoring project was highlighted as a forward-looking educational model at the OECD Global Forum on the Future of Education and Skills 2030 (10 to 13 October) in Japan. Dr Marie Ghanbari, initiator of the project from the Sports Psychology department, contributed her expertise in a separate article on empathy training, as reported by the Westfälische Nachrichten newspaper, among others.
 

Bernd Strauß and Heiko Wagner have been elected Vice Dean and Dean of Studies for a further two years in the Fachbereichsrat. At the meeting (13 November 2024) of the Executive Board, Heiko Wagner was elected Managing Director and Bernd Strauß Deputy Managing Director for a further year. 
We congratulate them and wish them all the best for their further term of office.

In the new book ‘Psychology of Crises in Sport’ by Bernd Strauss, Stephanie Buenemann, Charlotte Behlau, Maike Tietjens and Katherine Tamminen, readers learn about the theoretical and empirical background of concepts related to crises. They then learn how apply this knowledge and these methods to prevent and cope crises. Well-known examples and case studies are used throughout the book to provide a comprehensive understanding of crises. 

(Strauss, B., Buenemann, S., Behlau, C., Tietjens, M., & Tamminen, K. (Eds). (2024). Psychology of crises in sport. Springer)

The University of Münster and SC Preußen Münster have signed a cooperation agreement to promote competitive and elite sport in soccer. The cooperation, which has already existed for several years, is to be intensified in the coming years in order to systematically expand existing synergy effects between science and competitive and top-class sport. Among other things, the University and Preußen want to work together to optimize the conditions for footballers who study at the University of Münster and play top-class sport at the same time.