In the 2024/25 winter semester, for the first time after many years, 77 students commenced their sports degrees in the areas of Teaching Profession at Primary Schools and Teaching Profession at Secondary Schools. An undergraduate non-teaching degree program in sports, exercise, and health is also being planned. The former Institute of Sports Science was closed in 2018. The university celebrated its reopening with talks from the fields of academia and politics, insights into sports science and the reestablishment of the degree program at university, and a presentation on the profile of sports science characteristic to Bremen.

“The New Degree Programs Make Teacher Education More Attractive”

“The reestablishment of the sports degree program at the University of Bremen is a great asset to teacher education in the region. We recognize the vital role of physical education in our schools and the need for more sports teachers in Bremen and Bremerhaven and the University of Bremen will now train these specialists. All available places were filled at the start of the new degree program. I am pleased that this program is in such high demand among prospective teachers. I wish all in-coming students a good start and much success in the future,” said Kathrin Moosdorf, Senator for the Environment, Climate, and Science.

Professor Jutta Günther, President of the University of Bremen, added, “Sports science brings even more movement and diversity to our campus. It also fits well with our university’s core values because it helps to create equal opportunities, inclusion, and more tolerance. The new degrees offer students more subject combinations and make teacher education in Bremen even more appealing. This is an important step for schools in Bremen and the wider community.

“Developing the new degree program was a significant achievement for us in the faculty and for our new colleagues in sports science. We are looking forward to working together in the areas of research, teaching, and outreach,” stated Professor Ingrid Darmann-Finck, Dean of the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Bremen.

Three New Professors for Bremen’s Sports Degree Program

At the event, Professor Ansgar Schwirtz, President of the German Society of Sport Science, gave an expert talk to introduce the discipline. An external committee of experts from the universities of Hamburg, Vechta, and Münster, who helped to develop the new concept, reported on the process of reestablishing the sports program. This was followed by a presentation of the degrees offered and research focuses by the newly appointed professors Ina Hunger, Cornelia Frank, and Jana Semrau.

Professor Ina Hunger, who holds a professorship in sports education and teacher education, previously served as a professor at the Georg-August University of Göttingen for many years. Professor Cornelia Frank, who was previously an assistant professor of sports science at the University of Osnabrück, has been appointed to a professorship in human movement science. Jana Semrau holds the professorship for sport, exercise, and health promotion. She was previously a research assistant at the Department of Sports Science and Sport at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Further Information:

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/faculty-11-subject-sport-sports-science

Contact:

Dr. Micòl Feuchter
Sports/Sports Science Degree Program Coordinator
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-68507
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