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.
On Thursday, September 12, 2024, the EduPASS Multiplier Event took place at the Institute of Sport Science in Münster. As an EduPASS project partner, the Willibald Gebhardt Institute hosted this event in cooperation with sport-lernen.de (Dipl.-Sportl. Axel Binnenbruck, University of Muenster) and the Department of Physical Education and Teaching Research (Prof. Nils Neuber, University of Münster) ...
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roland Naul and Yoonkyu Song represented the WGI at “The 4th International Colloquium of Olympic Studies and Research Centers,” which took place from 22 to 24 July 2024 in Besançon ...
On April 8, the Willibald Gebhardt Institute launched its "Olympic Lecture Series" in the run-up to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with a large audience - in person on the campus of the University of ...
The second "Learning Teaching Training" event of the EduPASS project took place in Luxembourg from January 22 to 26, 2024. The program was put together by colleagues from the University of Luxembourg together ...