The Erasmus project “PA4Age” was successfully completed with an international conference in Treviso, Italy on November 7, 2024. The project partners were able to present the developed learning platform and app on the topic of motivation and active ageing to numerous interested professionals from the sports and health sector as well as older adults.
 

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 BMBF project ComeSport, the Education and Culture in Sport and Education and Teaching in Sport departments are developing training courses for teachers on the subject of social media and body image in physical education. A meeting with other project partners has now taken place at Leipzig University. The first training sessions have already been tested.

From 29th to 30th October, the Kick-Off Camp of the TReND doctoral network took place at the University of Münster. We are happy to have had a successful and productive official start of the doctoral training programme with the TReND fellows and their supervisors.  Of the twelve TReND fellows, seven fellows came to Münster with their supervisor(s), while three participated remotely. The kick-off camp was used to work on a theoretical framework for the research of the TReND consortium, but also for getting to know each other and growing as a consortium, which everyone really enjoyed!
 

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)

Fascinating! Christiane Bohn and Heiko Wagner show us how complex our body sensation is. Using innovative measurement methods such as “ComputerMyoGraphy” developed by Heiko Wagner, they investigate whether our movements really happen the way we perceive them. The example of the talented B-girl Jilou shows how important the connection between brain and body is.
Link to the report (3sat/German)
 

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.

Important information for all those who are attending the swimming courses this semester and want to take the coursework and/or exam and have already attended the seminar!
Please write Maike an e-mail by this Friday (18.10.) that you are enrolled in the Learnweb course. In the course you will find a declaration of consent that you cannot use the showers and toilets of the Ostbad due to the legionella infestation. The declaration must be printed out and completed in its original form and handed in to Maike by October 27.
Without this declaration, you will neither be able to attend the AGs in the Ostbad nor take the exam if the infestation is still present at that time.
More detailed information can also be found in the Learnweb course.