Faculty 11 - Subject Sport/Sports Science
News
For the 2025/26 winter semester, we are looking for support in practical teaching for the courses ‘Movement in Water’ and ‘Beginner Swimming’. Further information can be found in the job advertisement. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
On September 15, 2025, the Human Movement Science research group, led by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Frank, took over the new laboratory premises. Even though this is only a temporary solution until the laboratory currently being planned in the new sports hall building is ready for occupancy, we are very pleased about this important step. Together with Ms. Kevrekidis from the building services, who was responsible for planning and coordination with the contractors, we inspected the completed rooms. Many thanks to Ms. Kevrekidis for her reliable and dedicated support of this project!
The rooms still look quite empty, but the laboratory will soon be equipped with modern technology. This will create good conditions for continuing our research work at the interface of motor cognition, learning/training, and technology. At the same time, the laboratory will serve as a research and learning workshop for students, offering opportunities to carry out their own projects within the framework of theses and research-oriented teaching.
Here, we are investigating how movement execution, imagination, and observation contribute to movement learning and what role new technologies—such as virtual reality—play in this process.
We look forward to getting started in the movement lab soon.
The Sports/Sports Science department at the University of Bremen also took part in this year's Christopher Street Day Bremen 2025. Under the motto “Pride must go on! Together. Loud. For everyone,” we are sending a message of diversity, solidarity, and participation for an open, respectful, and diverse university.
Click here for more impressions of CSD on the University of Bremen website.
In the coming weeks, the University of Bremen will begin sending out admission letters. We congratulate everyone who has been accepted to the university and would like to say:
Welcome to the University of Bremen!
Soon, you will be able to find information about the Orientation Week program (October 6–10) on this page as well as on the StuGa Sport Instagram account, which will be continuously updated. During Orientation Week, you will have the opportunity to get to know the campus and your fellow students through welcome events, campus tours, and social activities. If you have any questions about the program or need support with organizing your studies, please feel free to contact Dr. Micòl Feuchter (Sports/Sports Science Degree Program Coordinator) or StuGa Sport (student body).
The online magazine Up2Date reports on three sports students from the first cohort of the new sports science degree programs, who are currently in their second semester.
Lilian, Melroy, and Jan describe their studies at the University of Bremen and their motivation for studying sports education.
Click here for the full article.
This qualitative study examines the perspective of PE teachers on the psychosocial insecurities of pupils in the context of PE lessons.
It is a follow-up study to the third-party funded project ‘Insecurities in physical education’. It is funded by the German Social Accident Insurance and the accident insurance funds of Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia.
More information on the focus and integration of the study can be found here.
The Alumni Association regularly informs about developments at the university and on campus in its newsletter. The current newsletter reports on the restart and return of sports science courses to the University of Bremen. The association spoke to Ina Hunger, Professor of Sports Pedagogy and Didactics, and student Martyna Szarmach. Click here for the full article. Click here for the full article.
In an interview with taz, Ina Hunger, Professor of Sports Pedagogy and Sports Didactics, discussed the aim of providing an open and education-focused physical education and how this is implemented in the teacher training courses at the University of Bremen. Click here to read the full interview from March 30, 2025.
From March 19 to 21, the annual conference of the Motor Control Section of the German Association of Sport Science (Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft, dvs) took place at TU Munich. At the conference, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Frank, a professor of movement science from Bremen, was elected as a member of the section's advisory board. The section focuses on issues related to human motor control. You can find more information about the work of the dvs Sport Motor Control Section here.
Sports science in Bremen
Since April 2024, the Department of Human and Health Sciences has been reorganised with great enthusiasm. It started with the professorship for Sports Pedagogy and Didactics (Prof. Dr. Ina Hunger). Since October 1, 2024, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Frank has also been part of our team; she holds the professorship in Human Movement Science. And since March 1, 2025, the professorship in Sports, Exercise, and Health Promotion has also been filled, by Prof. Dr. Jana Semrau.
An Institute of Sport Science will be established, which will deal with sport and exercise in the context of education, upbringing and health in the course of research, teaching and transfer and which stands for open-mindedness and diversity.
Research
The three professorships each have a special focus according to their specialisation.
The professorship of Sports pedagogy and didactics is primarily focused on topics relating to school sports and children's physical activity and sports socialisation and focuses on issues relating to movement, sport and the body in the context of diversity and social inequality. Read here the interview with Prof Dr Ina Hunger in Der Spiegel about her current research project, in which she is looking at mental health in physical education.
The research group in Movement Science, led by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Frank, focuses on topics at the intersection of motor cognition, learning/training, and technology. In our laboratory, we investigate, among other things, the contributions of movement execution, mental imagery, and movement observation to motor learning, and how new technologies can be used to support teaching and learning in sports, education, health, and work, also considering developmental processes across the lifespan.
The research area of the professorship ‘Sport, Exercise and Health Promotion’ will be outlined soon.
Study programmes
From winter semester 2024/25, Sport Science will start with two degree programmes: Teaching at grammar schools/secondary schools and primary school teaching.
The degree programmes are designed to be innovative, reflective and future-oriented and are thematically linked to the field of school. They take into account the diversity of sport and exercise cultures as well as the diversity and challenges of growing generations. From the winter semester 2026/27, an extracurricular Bachelor's degree programme will be added that focuses on health-related issues and fields of action. You will find a brief description of the degree programmes in this information broschure.
Networking
The new sports science team is very interested in an intensive exchange with representatives from science, education, teaching, politics, sports organisations and health-related institutions as well as all other people who see interfaces with sports science topics. It strives for lively cooperation for research and theory-practice transfers - both in the region and with international partners.
Please feel free to contact us! We look forward to hearing from you!