On February 2, 2023, the Department of Sport and Health Sciences will say goodbye to its graduates during the Absolvia celebration. After the event had to be held digitally in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, next year's Absolvia will be held in presence at the new TUM Campus in the Olympic Park in Lecture Hall 1.
In 2023, the best scientific papers will be awarded again with the Dr. Gertrude Krombholz-Prize. The award, which is being presented for the 25th time, is endowed with a total of 1,500 euros (three prizes of 500 euros each) and will be presented by the donor in person.
Since 1999, Dr. Gertrude Krombholz has been supporting talented students at TUM with the prize named after her. To ensure that the funds for the annual award are always secured, in 2009 she and former TUM President Wolfgang A. Herrmann created a foundation.
The Department of Sport and Health Sciences encourages all academic institutions to submit theses in the fields of sports and/or health sciences that combine theory and practice in a special way and have received a final grade between 1.0 and 1.7.
All Bachelor's, Master's as well as admission theses of students who have completed their main studies at the Department of Sport and Health Sciences (Bachelor Health Science or Sport Science, Master Health Science or Sport & Exercise Science, teaching degree with teaching subject or extension subject Sport) can be proposed. A maximum of three proposals per chair, department and scientific institution can be submitted as originals by the respective supervisor either directly to the Department's Dean's Office (Manuela Huber or Franziska Mayer, rooms L610/L612) or in digital form (by e-mail to dekanat.sg(at)tum.de or by USB stick). The deadline for submission is January 16, 2023.
The jury, consisting of Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermsdörfer, Prof. Dr. Martin Lames, Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schwirtz as well as the founder and namesake Dr. Gertrude Krombholz, will then select the three prize winners from all submitted works, to be awarded at the Absolvia Celebration.
Dr. Gertrude Krombholz, former Academic Director of the Department of Sports Teacher Training at the TUM, is a dance and sports pedagogue and founder of wheelchair dance. She has been honored for her tireless work with numerous awards, including the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Munich and the "Paralympic Order" of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The TUM honored Dr. Krombholz with the Golden Ring of Honor and the Golden Needle of Honor for her outstanding, well above-obligatory performance and her decades of commitment to sports teacher training and university sports.
Contact:
Dean's Office Department of Sport and Health Sciences
Georg-Brauchle Ring 60/62
80992 München
phone: 089 289 24601
e-mail: dekanat.sg(at)tum.de
Text: Bastian Daneyko
Photos: Isabel Uphoff & Pixabay