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.
Since March 2020, the Willibald Gebhardt Institute and its activities are also affected by the Corona virus. While some projects, like the current EU Tender on behalf of the European Parliament progress without any delays, and data collection in school settings has resumed in other WGI projects, the European Conference on Research in Physical Education and School Sport has to be postponed due to the ...
On June 23, 2020 the European Physical Education Assciation (EUPEA) held an Online Conference that about 1000 individuals from around the world attended. The conference focused on data regarding the effect ...
Together with a research consortium made up of several high-profile partners the department led by Prof. Mittag at DSHS Cologne (lead) and the WGI (Prof. Naul, co-lead) have won an EU-Sport Policy Tender ...
In May the Willibald Gebhardt Institute, together with a group of national and international partner organizations, submitted a project proposal to the EU. All required materials were submitted before ...