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The Institute of Sport Science is characterised in its teaching and research by its integrative and application-oriented orientation with a focus on social and behavioural sciences. While the Bachelor's programme teaches the basics of sport science in a broad thematic way, the consecutive Master's programme in Sport Science enables specialisation in Health Promotion, Sport Management or Teaching & Learning.

In research, a problem-oriented strategy is pursued that focuses on the phenomena of sport in its entire breadth and whose implementation is supported by excellent personnel and equipment research facilities. The academic exchange in sport science is promoted by the international doctroal programme "Interdisciplinary Sport Science" and the interdisciplinary colloquium "Bernese Talks on Sport Science" ("Berner Gespräche zur Sportwissenschaft") organised by the Institute.

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Claudio R. Nigg erhält die Urkunde für den Distinguished Mentor Award der Society of Behavioral Medicine überreicht.

Claudio R. Nigg wins the Society of Behavioural Medicine's Distinguished Mentor Award

At the annual conference of the Society of Behavioral Medicine from 13 to 16 March in Philadelphia (USA), Claudio R. Nigg was honored with the Distinguished Mentor Award. The award honors mentors who have fostered excellence in, and had a major impact on, the field of behavioral medicine by virtue of their roles as mentors. Claudio R. Nigg follows with this award pioneering physical activity researchers such as Jim Sallis or Abby King.

2024/03/14

Welcome to ISPW!

On 1 March 2024, Sally Haddad will take up her position as a doctoral student in the project "Empowering adolescents to lead change using health data" under the supervision of Prof. Dr Nigg in the Department of Health Science.
Also on 1 March 2024, Kai Gensitz will begin his doctorate in the "GoGreenNext" project under the supervision of Prof. Dr Nigg in the Department of Health Science.
We wish them both much success and welcome them to the Institute.

2024/03/01

Start of the SNSF Starting Grant project of Christian Vater

On 1 January 2024, Christian Vater will start as an assistant professor in the SNSF Starting Grant project "Mechanisms of peripheral vision in complex decision making" at ISPW (project duration: 5 years). The starting team will be completed by Božo Vukojević (as a doctoral student), who completed his Master's degree at the German Sport University in Cologne, and Svitlana Pinchuk (as a computer scientist), who successfully completed her Master's degree at the ISPW. You can find out more about the project in the UniAKTUELL article (in German). We warmly welcome Christian and his team and wish them a good start!

2024/01/01

Podbean, Spotify and AppleMusic. For those interested in learning more about the project, please visit the website (https://www.bougerbouger.ch/) or Instragram channel.

2022/05/06

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