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.
A video from Tokyo, guests from all over Germany: The Olympic Study Day 2021, organized by the Willibald Gebhardt Institute in Münster was a complete success. On June 29th, WGI’s Vice President for Olympic Education, Prof. Dr. Michael Krüger, in cooperation with the German Olympic Academy (DOA) and the Institute for Sports Science at the University of Münster, invited to the virtual Olympic Study ...
In 2020, the work unit of Prof. Mittag (DSHS, lead) and the WGI (Prof. Naul, co lead) as a research consortium won the European Parliament's tender, an expertise on "EU Sport Policy: Assessment and ...
After the premiere in 2019, the Willibald Gebhardt Institute’s 2021 Olympic Science Day will be hosted for a second time in Münster, Germany, in June 2021 - after the pandemic-related break last year. ...
On Tuesday, May 11th, 2021, the Willibald Gebhardt Institute hosted the 5th Olympic Symposium Willibald Gebhardt under the leadership of Vice President for "Olympic Education", Michael Krüger. This fifth ...