27.05.-31.05.2025 - IFSS successfully represented at the asp conference in Bochum

The IFSS was represented by six people from two departments at the asp conference in Bochum last week. Starting on Tuesday, Dr. Chalotte Behlau and Dr. Philipp Hendricks attended a post-doc workshop on the topic of research profiles. At the same time, Annalena Veltmaat and Hennah Pauly were active at the asp workshop for young researchers, where they received helpful support for their doctoral projects. At the main conference, Hannah Pauly (on the topic of effort), Dennis Dreiskämper (on mental health across the lifespan) and Charlotte Behlau (on team dynamics) each led a symposium in which they also gave presentations. Annalena Veltmaat presented the results of her Master's thesis in her first scientific conference lecture and Noah Pirk was also actively represented with a poster. The positive impressions and impressions of the overall excellently organized conference will now be taken into the next research tasks. 

29.05.2025 - Dennis Dreiskämper new Vice President and Managing Director of asp

At the general meeting of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sportpsychologie (asp) on Ascension Day in Bochum, Prof. Dr. Dennis Dreiskämper was unanimously elected as the new Vice President Finance (Managing Director) of the asp. This makes him the deputy of the new President, Prof. Dr. Jana Strahler (University of Freiburg), for the next two years. As a section of the dvs, the asp is both the scientific representative of sport psychology in Germany and the first point of contact for training to become a sport psychology expert. It therefore has a special role in the theory-practice connection. The asp currently has around 600 members from science and practice in competitive sport. In addition to Jana Strahler and Dennis Dreiskämper, Barbara Halberschmidt (Münster, school sport), Svenja Wolf (Tallahassee, Florida State, international and research), Moritz Anderten (Cologne, competitive sport), Petra Janssen (Regensburg, health) and Sascha Leisterer (Leipzig, young academics) were also unanimously elected to the Executive Committee as Vice Presidents for their respective areas of responsibility.

11.10.2024 - Move For Health in the German government's 17th report on children and young people

Every four years, the Federal Government publishes an action-guiding report by a commission of experts on the status of children and young people in Germany. In this legislative period, the Move For Health project (Dreiskämper et al., 2023; 2024), a project from the field of sport, was also included in the report with several contents and references. The central introductory chapter “Strengthening structures for the younger generation and developing them for the future” presents key findings from the project (p. 17). Illustrations and results from the project are also presented later on. This is a reference to the importance of the project, which is led by the Sports Psychology Department at TU Dortmund University (Prof. Dreiskämper).

10.09.2024 – Network meeting MKKF + DO

On September 10 and 11, around 25 researchers from the universities of Kassel, Frankfurt, DSHS Cologne and Dortmund met in Kassel for the 12th MKKF+Do network meeting. 
For the first time with the participation of Dortmund University, research was presented and discussed in detail in longer slots. MKKF+Do goes back to an initiative by doctoral students from Cologne and Münster in 2012. At that time, the then doctoral students Rebecca Rienhoff, Dennis Dreiskämper, Martin Klämpfl and Svenja Wolf, together with Markus Raab and Bernd Strauß, initiated an annual exchange of ideas between the two research areas, which still exists today and has been expanded.

07.09.2024 - Move for health at the “Sport meets health” congress

Prof. Dreiskämper gave the keynote speech on the topic of “Move for health - growing up healthy through exercise, play and sport in childhood” at the “Sport meets health” congress organized by the AOK and the FLVW at the Kamen-Kaiserau sports school with around 120 participants. The very well-attended event also provided an opportunity for further networking with partners such as the FLVW and the health insurance company AOK.

05.09.2024 - Move For Health 2.0 data collection completed

The aim of the continuation of the Move For Health project in 2024 is to repeat and expand the representative survey of children and youths with over 4,000 participants from 2023. In 2024, over 63% of the children from the previous year and over 71% of the youths from the previous year were included in the survey again. In addition, the sample was again increased to over 4,000 participants. The results will be presented towards the end of the year. Since 01.09.24, Dortmund University has also been involved in the project with Prof. Dreiskämper as overall project manager and Annalena Veltmaat as a member of staff. The results of Move For Health 1.0 from 2023 will be published in an anthology by Springerverlag towards the end of the year. In addition, a special issue of Forum Kinder- und Jugendsport, the scientific journal of the German Sports Youth, will be published in October.

04.09.2024 - Sport makes you (mentally) healthy?! Keynote speech by Prof. Dreiskämper

As part of an event to promote young talent in sports clubs, at which clubs were honored for their youth work, Prof. Dennis Dreiskämper gave a keynote speech on the question of whether sport can strengthen the mental health of children and young people. In a subsequent discussion round, the challenges for sports clubs were discussed, in particular the right to all-day care from 2026.

02.09.2024 - Start of the new Sport Psychology team

The sports psychology department began its work at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science with a retreat. Over the course of three days, the new Dr. Charlotte Behlau, Hannah Pauly and Annalena Veltmaat spent three days working with the the head of the department, Prof. Dr. Dennis Dreiskämper on the principles of research, teaching and staff development.