"FISU Healthy Campus Label" awarded at the World University Games
On Thursday, 17 July, Paderborn University was awarded the "FISU Healthy Campus Label" in platinum. The award was presented during the FISU World Conference in the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum. The "Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire", or FISU for short, is the largest international university sports federation and organises the World University Games currently taking place in Germany, among other things. University President Prof Dr Matthias Bauer and Ulrich Kussin, Head of University Sports, accepted the award.
"We are very proud to be one of only a few universities in Germany to be honoured. Our university health management has been very successfully offering various health promotion programmes for many years. The physical and mental health of our staff and students is very important to us and is one of our key areas of activity," says Prof Bauer. Kussin adds: "We pursue a holistic approach. Our health management is made up of various components that are all interlinked - be it sports programmes, check-ups or psycho-social counselling."
The "FISU Healthy Campus Label" is an internationally recognised certificate that promotes and evaluates the well-being of students and university staff. It covers fields such as physical fitness, mental health, nutrition, social responsibility and sustainability. Paderborn University is one of nine German and 180 universities from 43 countries to have been awarded the label. The label is awarded at various levels, depending on the scope and quality of the measures implemented - from "Certified" to "Platinum". The programme is based on international recommendations such as the WHO "Health Promoting Universities" project and the federal framework recommendations of the National Prevention Conference.
The label was awarded by FISU President Leonz Eder and FISU Vice President Dr. Verena Burk. In the second year, the results from the first year will be reviewed in an audit procedure.
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