As a meeting place, university sport offers the opportunity to exchange ideas with international students and staff and to develop and promote your own sporting and personal skills.
Sport connects and builds bridges. University Sport would like to play its part in this and fully exploit the far-reaching potential of sport with the help of the "International @Hochschulsport" department.
In the 2025 summer semester, our instructor Judith Kaminski also offered three hikes through the local flora and fauna in the northern Black Forest as part of the "Hiking for international students" course. The internationals experienced unforgettable hiking tours, were able to enjoy great views and Black Forest delicacies.
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As part of the "Hiking for international students" course, three guided hiking tours took place in the beautiful Black Forest in the winter semester 2024/25. Despite the sometimes adverse weather conditions, each hike provided unique nature experiences, exciting discoveries and plenty of good humor.
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The Sportmix tournament organized by the Erasmus Students Network (ESN) Karlsruhe was a complete success! The participants were enthusiastic and expressed their desire for similar events in the future. The participation of our guests from ESN Strasbourg, who also enjoyed the tournament, was particularly pleasing.
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The university sports flyer shines in a new design and with updated information about the walk-in center for fitness, health and diagnostics, the KIT SC and university sports at KIT in German and English. Take a look and also visit our social media channels!
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We asked international students about their sports experiences at KIT. Find out what they have to say about ...
... which sports they played during their semester at KIT.
... what they liked about the sports on offer and the sports facilities.
... challenges and their sporting highlights at KIT.
... why YOU should study at KIT and participate in university sports.
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"I used the swimming pool, walk-in and track a great deal during my stay.” [...] “The facilities are really great. I really love that everything is so close by.” [...] "You could really do anything here. It doesn't matter what kind of sport you like to do."
Theodor from Copenhagen, Denmark
Measures for internationalization
International projects of university sports
- International flyer of the university sports (flyer)
- Digital KIT Run in cooperation with the KIT Buddy Program (final report 2021)
- Social media campaign for the International Day of University Sports (IDUS)
- Social media campaign for the International Week against Racism (Instagram post)
- Multilingual newsletter at the start of the semester (German, English, Chinese)
- Social media campaign for the International Day of Sport for Peace and Development (Instagram post, Peace and Sport website)
- Pilot project: international sports course - Move it! @Hochschulsport in the summer semester 2022 (to the course flyer)
- Participation in the KIT International Days 2022 on 22 and 23.06.2022 (to the website, report by University Sports)
- Participation in the European Universities Games 2022 in Lodz, Poland from 14 to 31.07.2022 (to the event page, to the follow-up report)
- Participation in and media coverage of the adh University Run 2022 for the International Day of University Sports (IDUS) on 20.09.2022 - 4th place of all participating universities (all results, social media campaign)
- Multilingual course descriptions of the sports program, from winter semester 2022/2023
- Social media campaign for International Women's Day (to the Instagram post)
- Social media campaign for Earth Day 2023 (to the Instagram post)
- Social media campaign for World Day for Safety and Health at Work (to the Instagram post)
- 1st international mixed sports tournament at the IfSS in cooperation with the Erasmus Students Network (to the report | to the Instagram post)
- Participation in five European Universities Championships 2023 (to the preliminary report | to the post-report volleyball | to the post-report taekwondo | to the post-report basketball | to the post-report rowing | to the post-report beach handball)
- Participation in the FISU World University Games 2023 in Chengdu, China from 28.07. to 08.08.2023 (to the event page | preliminary report | post-event report table tennis | post-event report rowing)
- Participation and media support at the adh University Run 2023 for the International Day of University Sports (IDUS) on 20.09.2023 - 2nd place of all participating universities (to the preliminary report | follow-up report)
- Pilot project: Hiking course for international students in the winter semester 2023/2024 (to the course description | to the project report)
- Social media campaign for World Environmental Education Day (to the homepage post)
- 2nd international mixed sports tournament at the IfSS in cooperation with the Erasmus Students Network ( to the report)
- Participation in the European Universities Games 2024 in Debrecen & Miskolc, Hungary from 12 to 24.07.2024 ( to the event page, to the follow-up report)
- 2nd edition of the traveling course for international students in the summer semester 2024(to the project report)
- Participation in and media coverage of the adh-Hochschullauf 2024 for the International Day of University Sports (IDUS) on 20.09.2024 - 2nd place of all participating universities (to the follow-up report)
- Interview series with international incoming students at KIT in cooperation with the Institute of Sport and Sports Science (IfSS)
- 3rd edition of the hiking course for international students in the winter semester 2024/2025(to the course description, to the project report)
- 3rd international mixed sports tournament at the IfSS in cooperation with the Erasmus Students Network(to the report)
- 4th edition of the traveling course for international students in the summer semester 2025(to the project report)
Nikolai Heck
- Event and project management, administration software, website management, internationalization, competitive sports
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