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.
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 with WGI project staff Prof. Dr. Roland Naul and Dr. Sebastian Brückner. The participants, including Stella Giesen, Katharina Gröne and Franziska Zimmer as students from the University of Münster, ...
This year, the 2024 Olympic Games will take place in Paris from July 26 to August 11. This major sporting event in the heart of Europe is an opportunity for the Willibald Gebhardt Institute (WGI) to take ...
Dear members, dear affiliates and dear friends of the WGI, following the very successful Annual General Assembly held on November 22 in the beautiful premises of the Hotel Kaiserhof in Münster, both ...
From October 2 to 6, 2023, the Willibald Gebhardt Institute attended the first of two training programs as part of the EduPASS project in Dublin (Ireland), which was organized by Sport Ireland Coaching. ...