Dr. Daniela Schwarz, a member of the staff of Full Prof. Dr. Yolanda Demetriou and Professor at the Chair for Sports and Health Education, is the first recipient of the Angela Molitoris Diversity Award at the TU Munich. With this award, members of the staff who have dedicated themselves to diversity and equal opportunity are to be honored.
TUM Vice President, Prof. Dr. Klaus Diepold, presents this award
The award ceremony took place on July 28, 2015, on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the German Diversity Charter. As part of an informative event, TUM.Diversity, invitations to the Vorhoelzer Forum were extended. Thereby, Prof. Dr. Klaus Diepold, TUM Vice President for Diversity and Talent Management, presented Dr. Schwarz with a certificate for the Angela Molitoris Diversity Award and a Silver Medal. Among the guests to the event were TUM Chancellor Albert Berger and Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schwirtz, Dean of the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, along with Patrick Brehmer and Roman Peter, the athletes' spokespersons, and Klaus Wolfermann, the Ambassador for the Special Olympics.
"For me it is a great honor to receive this award, especially as the first individual. It is nice to see to what extent the TU Munich, with its variety of facets and honors, recognizes the commitment to the wide field of sports for people with intellectual disabilities," Schwarz is happy to say. Special thanks from the award-winners go to the Dean, Prof. Schwirtz, who "personally and repeatedly dedicates himself to the topic of the Special Olympics and thereby promotes it actively".
Special Olympics: National Games, Scientific congresses and further training modules
Honored was her commitment to the "Special Olympics". This association organizes sporting competitions for people with intellectual and/or multiple disabilities. Since 2012, the National Games, which have been held on the TUM Campus in the Olympic Park, inter alia, were organized and coordinated by Schwarz, concurrently along with the scientific congress of the TUM.
One year later, Schwarz developed special modules for the Special Olympics. "The idea of the organization was to develop modules that provide training. These modules are based on the education system of the German Olympics Sports Confederation (DOSB) and were designed similarly," explains the winner. Through this system, two main objectives should be pursued: on the one hand, to provide training opportunities for people with mental disabilities, similar to that performed by the training supervisors of the DOSB; on the other hand, modules can be booked in which skills for dealing with people suffering from intellectual disabilities and the organization of sporting events for this target group, can be taught.
Booking modules from the Federal Government
A total of twelve modules have been announced, five of them developed by Schwarz together with students at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences. "One of our modules has already been requested as a possible training event by the federal government," says the scientist who received her doctorate in the Netherlands. Another module for the self-determination of individuals with intellectual disabilities has just been requested from the TUM by the Special Olympics Germany and is financed by the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.
Since 2014, Schwarz has been a scientific advisory board member for the Special Olympics. In addition to these activities, she continues to support various sporting events. She has travelled with student groups to the National Games held in 2013 in Garmisch, 2014 in Dusseldorf and 2015 in Inzell. Also in 2016, they will accompany the Games in Hanover on site. Two former students of the faculty are now working as Junior Project Managers with the organization of the championships.
The TU Munich has now paid tribute to the intensive commitment and dedication of Schwarz by awarding her the Angela Molitoris Diversity Award as the first award-winner.
Molitoris: Judicial officer and Chancellor of the TUM
Angela Molitoris was a judicial officer from 1946 to 1971 and, until her retirement in 1976, the first Chancellor of the TUM. During this period, this woman, who stems from Deggendorf, played a monumental role in rebuilding the university after the Second World War. For her activities, she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1975. In 1978, Molitoris was also appointed by the TUM as an Honorary Senator.
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Email: Daniela.Schwarz@tum.de