On January 30, 2025, the Department Health and Sport Sciences will bid farewell to its graduates at the Absolvia ceremony. This will take place at the TUM Campus in the Olympiapark in BayWa Lecture Hall.

In 2025, the best scientific work will again be awarded the Dr. Gertrude Krombholz Prize. The award, which is being presented for the 28th time, is endowed with a total of 1,500 euros (three prizes of 500 euros each).

Dr. Gertrude Krombholz has been supporting talented students at TUM with the prize named after her since 1998. To ensure that the funds for the annual award are always secured, she set up a foundation in 2009 together with former TUM President Wolfgang A. Herrmann.

The Department of Health and Sport Sciences encourages all academic institutions to submit final theses in the fields of sport and/or health sciences that combine theory and practice in a special way and have received a final grade of between 1.0 and 1.7.

All Bachelor's, Master's and admission theses by students who have completed their main studies at the Department Health and Sport Sciences (Bachelor's degree in Health Science or Sport Science, Master's degree in Health Science or Sport & Exercise Science, teaching degree with a teaching subject or extension subject in sport) can be proposed. A maximum of three proposals per Chair, Professorship and scientific institution can be submitted by the respective supervisor in digital form (by e-mail to event(at)mh.tum.de). Submission deadline is December 10, 2024.

The jury, consisting of the Department Head Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermsdörfer, Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schwirtz, Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler and the founder and namesake Dr. Gertrude Krombholz, will then select the three prize winners from all submitted works, who will then be personally honored at the Absolvia celebration and receive the prize money.

Dr. Gertrude Krombholz (92), former Head Academic Director of the Physical Education Teacher Training Department at TUM, is a dance and sports teacher and founder of wheelchair dance. She has received numerous awards for her tireless work, 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). TUM awarded Dr. Krombholz the Golden Ring of Honour and the Golden Badge of Honour for her outstanding, far more than obligatory achievements and her decades of commitment to sports teacher training and university sports.

Contact:

Department Health and Sport Sciences
Georg-Brauchle Ring 60/62
80992 München

phone: 089 289 24601
e-mail: deans.office(at)mh.tum.de
 

Text & Photos: Bastian Daneyko