Dr. Jaime Carcamo-Oyarzun from the Universidad de la Frontera Temuco (Chile) was able to obtain a third-party funded project at the national commission for research in Chile (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica [CONICYT]) with the support of Dr. Christian Herrmann (University of Basel, Switzerland) and Prof. Dr. Erin Gerlach (University of Potsdam, Germany). The project is called “The relation between basic motor competencies in Chilean students and their motivation, attitudes and physical activity.”
The goal of the project is to assess basic motor competencies in Chilean students and to show their relation with motivation, attitude towards physical education and physical activity in extra-curricular sports. Therefore, MOBAK test instruments are validated in Chile prior to the assessment.
After the visit of Dr. Jaime Carcamo-Oyarzun at the University of Basel from the 13th – 21st of March 2018, Dr. Christian Herrmann and Prof. Dr. Erin Gerlach will travel to Chile to locally support the training of the project team and to share their expertise about basic motor competencies with Chilean physical education teachers. More mutual visits within the project are planned for 2019.
Based on this, a further cooperation between the University of Basel and the Universidad de la Frontera Temuco is planned to establish a systematic exchange in research and teaching.
from the left: Dr. Christian Herrmann (DSBG, University of Basel), Dr. Jaime Carcamo-Oyarzun (Universidad de la Frontera, Chile), Erich Thaler (International Relations, University of Basel) and Prof. Dr. Uwe Pühse (DSBG, University of Basel)
