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Online survey on the subject of sport and train in Chemnitz has began – Professorship for Social Scientific Perspectives on Sport, Exercise and Health Promotion at Chemnitz University of Technology is main the undertaking
Chemnitz sports activities halls are additionally the main target of the survey. Photo: LaufKulTour
How a lot do Chemnitz residents transfer? What sports activities or bodily exercise do they do? How happy are you with the sports activities services and sports activities choices within the metropolis? These and different questions are the main target of a examine at Chemnitz University of Technology by the Professorship of Social Scientific Perspectives on Sport, Exercise and Health Promotion (Head: Prof. Dr. Torsten Schlesinger), which is being carried out on behalf of the town of Chemnitz for present sports activities growth planning.
Residents of the town of Chemnitz aged 16 and over – no matter whether or not they’re bodily lively or not – are invited to participate within the present survey by May 31, 2024 and to actively assist form sports activities growth in Chemnitz for the subsequent ten years. The outcomes of the examine affect, for instance, the development and renovation of sports activities halls, swimming swimming pools and ice rinks, but in addition soccer fields, cycle paths, skate parks and inexperienced areas in parks.
Link to the survey: www.mytuc.org/vftk
Background: Sports growth planning for the town of Chemnitz
Every ten years, the sports activities division of the town of Chemnitz initiates a sports activities growth plan with a purpose to get hold of info on the sports activities and train conduct of the Chemnitz inhabitants. The present undertaking at Chemnitz University of Technology makes it potential to seamlessly construct on earlier findings and thus make developments significantly clear. Because not all sports activities are the identical and train in 2024 shall be characterised by totally different objectives and framework situations than 20 years in the past. While basic sports activities reminiscent of soccer, handball or athletics had been nonetheless within the foreground again then, types of train reminiscent of biking, yoga or jogging have turn into more and more essential throughout Germany lately. The extent to which such developments can be seen in Chemnitz or are influenced by native developments is the topic of the present undertaking.
The demographic construction of a metropolis or sporting successes of native groups, such because the Niners Chemnitz profitable the FIBA Europe Cup 2024, can be certain that Chemnitz residents are enthusiastic about different sports activities and train choices than is the case in different municipalities . A focused design of the framework situations is determined by this, for instance in the case of the query of what appropriate sports activities services in addition to train areas and alternatives ought to appear to be.
A altering understanding of sport and train over time can be seen at Chemnitz University of Technology. For instance, along with the basic sports activities services, the campus on Reichenhainer Straße has additionally had a disc golf course since 2023, the place you possibly can compete with the Frisbee on 9 lanes in a aggressive or enjoyable method, alone or in a gaggle. The examine will even present to what extent there are a very massive variety of disc golfers in Chemnitz.
Further info granted by Prof. Dr. Torsten Schlesinger, phone 0371 531-19938, e mail [email protected].
Mario Steinebach
16.05.2024