350059 FS MSC.I - Research Seminar / Elective Seminar (2025S)

This is an international seminar with teachers and students from the University of Vienna (AT), Malmö University (Sweden), Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany), a university of India and partly Paris (France). The seminar will be held digitally (Zoom).

Contents
- Introduction to Global Goals of Sustainability (in Sports and PE)
- Education and Sport Systems (AT, GER, SWE, IN)
- Concept of Path Dependence (Sport systems, sportification, ...)
- Ethics and sport sustainability (digitization, eSport, ...)
- Outdoor activities and health from a sustainability perspective (sustainable body, ...)
- esports
- Sustainability issues in big sport events (e.g. Para/Olympic Games 2024 Paris)

The first part of the international seminar will be a mix of theoretical inputs by the seminar leaders combined with (international) group discussions by the students (AT, GER, SWE, IN, FR) and panel discussions with international guests.
In the second part of the seminar students of AT, GER, and partly IN will work together and elaborate in small international groups different issues concerning sustainability and sports. Topics will be distributed in the beginning of the seminar and presented in this second part of the seminar.