The Willibald Gebhardt Institute (WGI) is an International Institute of Research and Knowledge Transfer in the fields of Sport and Sport Sciences. It was established as a non-governmental and non-profit institution at the city of Essen (Germany) on May 5th 1992. According to the constitution of the WGI its purpose is to support human tasks and social targets of physical activities including health-related fitness and ethical-morale principles in sport activities. This purpose is linked with a holistic approach of education for a well-rounded individual, particularly for children and adolescents in their main settings of living and development: in families, at schools, within sport clubs in the context of recreational and elite sports.
Karl August Willibald Gebhardt was born on January 17th, 1861 in Berlin and also died there on April 30th, 1921. He was a supporter of modern international Olympic games and founder of the Olympic movement in Germany, even though the modern international Olympic movement is most often only associated with Pierre de Coubertin.
At the beginning of November, the regular general assembly of the Willibald Gebhardt Institute took place in the premises of the Institute for Sports Science on the Leonardo Campus in Münster. President Dr. Heinz Aschebrock was pleased to welcome twelve members in the premises of the WWU Münster - after in past years the general assembly could only be held completely or partly online. The focus ...
Guests from seven nations attended the "European Conference on Physical Education and School Sport" organized by the Willibald Gebhardt Institute on October 17 and 18, 2022. WGI President Dr. Heinz Aschebrock ...
As part of its 30 year anniversary, the Willibald Gebhardt Institute is hosting a "European Conference on Physical Education and School Sport" in Münster, Germany. The event will take place on Monday, ...
Early September, Professor Nils Neuber, Vice President of Children's and Youth Sports at the Willibald Gebhardt Institute, received the "North Rhine-Westphalia Sports Science 2022" award in the "Social, ...