WEBVTT - generated by Videoportal Universität Freiburg 1 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.720 My name is Petra Gieß-Stüber. I have been a professor of sports education at the Institute 2 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:14.080 of Sport and Sports Science here at the University of Freiburg since 2000. 3 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:17.839 I was in the Senate Commission for Gender Equality at the beginning. 4 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:27.679 I am also a member of Gender Studies and teach and review there and I am a network member of women researchers 5 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.679 working on integration and migration. 6 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:39.600 From many points of view, diversity is a guiding theme for my academic work, for my work in teaching, 7 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:45.000 and also in my work beyond teaching in civil society. 8 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.880 Diversity issues have been with me since my habilitation, where I worked in gender studies, 9 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:58.280 then later on intercultural learning, on issues of integration and migration in the context of sport. 10 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:07.000 In research, I understood more and more how difficult and complex it is to really live diversity constructively 11 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:14.000 and to promote participation for people for whom it is difficult to access sport. 12 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:23.000 The idea emerged to develop concepts and programs on how diversity can be lived in the context of sport. 13 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:33.000 This led us to set up a large program here in Freiburg - especially in cooperation with the step foundation - 14 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:41.000 that has been running for over ten years - "Kick for Social Development" - in which we have tried to implement 15 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:48.000 the findings in a science-based way in the practice of teaching sports programs. 16 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.000 In the beginning, mainly for girls from socially disadvantaged residential areas, 17 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:58.000 from socially disadvantaged living contexts and Haupt- and Werkrealschulen. 18 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:08.000 This has resulted in more than 20 working groups at schools. More than 28 trainers work regularly in the context. 19 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:15.000 In such a way it is perfect to combine: On the one hand, topics in teaching that are relevant for future 20 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:22.000 physical education teachers, and on the other hand, a practical project that has an impact in civil society. 21 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:28.000 At the same time, within the framework of the accompanying research, many students write theses, 22 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:35.000 doctoral candidates write qualification theses and high-quality publications in the field. 23 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:47.000 The end result is a perfect connection and new socially innovative sports projects. 24 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:55.000 We have succeeded in attracting many students to this topic. We have a great demand to work in the 25 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:04.000 "Kick for Social Development" projects, and the feedback from the students is that they gain 26 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:09.000 very valuable practical experience, because they appreciate the heterogeneity of children - 27 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:15.000 refugee children, children from migrant families, from poor families, but also partly the girls from high schools - 28 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:21.000 because we always try to achieve a really good mix - that they take this practical experience with them 29 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:26.000 into their professional field, into their traineeship and into the school afterwards. 30 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:30.000 As a result, several hundred students have now entered their professional lives with these incitations 31 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:38.000 and with a positive attitude toward shaping diversity. 32 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.000 I actually understand diversity as something that goes without saying. People are different 33 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:51.000 and live together in a social space. We all know that, depending on their social situation 34 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.000 and particular personal characteristics, not all people have the same opportunities. 35 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:00.000 Shaping diversity is not without preconditions, but rather we have to create spaces 36 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:09.000 where we meet as equals, where everyone involved is open to new patterns of interpretation, 37 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:14.000 to other ways of looking at things and at the world. For this is precisely the great opportunity 38 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:20.000 and the special feature. In university life, we need this diversity because it is the only way to generate new ideas, 39 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:30.000 new projects. It's fascinating to see how, for example, a doctoral candidate is now founding a social enterprise, 40 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:36.000 [offering] sports in a project for people who have become homeless or poor. 41 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:42.000 In such a way completely new, great, creative ideas are emerging in a diverse space. 42 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:48.000 A lot of things are possible at the university, and diversity is now very much in place. 43 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:54.000 Something like "third mission," that is, the idea that the university can and should also have an impact 44 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:59.000 on civil society, is now valued. 45 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:04.000 But the actual gratification structures of the university are still different. 46 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:10.000 Third-party funding must be obtained, high-ranking international publications must be written 47 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:17.000 in large numbers (ideally). This work in the field and in practice and with practice 48 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.000 simply costs an enormous amount of time. 49 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:28.000 It would be great if the university provided even more structures to actually support and enable this.