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.
We are pleased to share with you the announcement of the upcoming 2025 Korean-German Joint Conference & Invited Seminar, titled “Olympic · Democracy · Peace”, which will take place on 30–31 October 2025 at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. This event marks the third edition of the German-Korean Joint Conference series jointly initiated by the Willibald Gebhardt Institute (WGI) ...
From Wednesday, September 17, to Friday, September 19, 2025, the third workshop of the TBrainBoost project on the topic of “Sports Science – (Research and Knowledge) Transfer under the Umbrella of ...
The Erasmus+ project EduPASS (Education for Physical Activity and Sport: Informal and Non-formal Settings), which was successfully completed in 2024, was presented at the 2025 CIAPSE Congress at the PH ...
Wednesday, September 17 marked the start of the TBrainBoost Workshop 3.0, organized by the Willibald Gebhardt Institute in cooperation with the Institute for Sport and Exercise Science at the University ...