Project duration: 01.10.2022 to 31.03.2023

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss, Prof. Dr. Claudia Hruška

The research approach focuses on the increasing importance of digitalization for integrated health promotion in daycare centers. Health-promoting work structures and behaviors of professionals are to be implemented in perspective, taking digital technologies into account. In this explorative phase, a well-founded initial situation is to be established via a systematic review and a focus group interview with actors from the field and networking is to be initiated.

You can find detailed information on the research project here: https: //www.ifaf-berlin.de/projekte/eheki/

Project duration:December 2020-June 2021

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss

The coronavirus pandemic has significantly changed everyday life for and with children since March 2020: Daycare centers and schools keep closing completely or partially or are only open for emergency care. Playgrounds and sports facilities are closed or only accessible to a certain number of people, and many sports clubs and commercial sports and exercise providers have suspended their activities. Everyday life is characterized by contact restrictions, hygiene and social distancing rules and life has shifted to the private sphere.

The project focuses on the physical activity behavior of 3-6 year old children in Marzahn-Hellersdorf during the Corona lockdowns 2020/2021 and deals with the question of whether and how the physical activity behavior of children changes during this time. Both the connection between spatial conditions and physical activity play a role, but also between physical activity and media use as well as the use of social space.

The methodological design follows a "mixed methods" approach and thus a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Specifically, the research design consists of a questionnaire survey (n=800) as well as interviews with children and drawings by children.

Project duration: 2016-2018

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss

The "Promoting physical activity in public spaces" project is embedded in the "Socially Integrative City" funding program as a sub-program of the "Future Neighbourhood Initiative" and is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The overarching goal is to promote physical and mental health through exercise.

From 2016 to 2018, people in various neighbourhoods in Berlin's Mitte district, where there is a risk of exclusion in various respects (e.g. with regard to a high concentration of socially difficult living conditions such as unemployment, structural disadvantages in the labour market or child poverty), were introduced to exercise and sport beyond gyms and sports clubs at a low threshold and with participatory opportunities. Under the auspices of bwgt e.V.(https://www.bwgt.org/), the first step was to identify existing exercise areas/elements in the project area. Pilot sites were then defined and specific, target group-oriented exercise programs were initiated in public green spaces and installed on a long-term basis. In addition, a network of participating stakeholders was established in the social space. The physical activity programs set up during the project period were scientifically monitored as part of internal and external evaluations (questionnaires, focus group discussions).

Project duration: 2016

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss, Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär

Project staff: Dr. Michael Noweski, Maria Ihm (M.A.), Laura Fricke

In health prevention, a standardization process of the quality of measures is currently taking place by setting new quality standards. The aim of the project is to analyze the prerequisites for an inter-agency communication process on common standards in obesity prevention for children.
The project is based on the QuAK project (2015 - 2016), which compiled an inventory of existing standards. On the one hand, the QuAK project was able to identify a basic consensus between scientific publications and practice-relevant actors in quality assurance in the above-mentioned field of action, but on the other hand, there was still a need for development of existing criteria catalogs and a lack of mutual reception.
The follow-up project PräKiT builds on these results. The aim is to determine the necessary prerequisites for the targeted development of quality standards. In-depth knowledge of the problems, attitudes, needs and potential for action of the stakeholders is crucial, as their perspectives have a decisive influence on the field. As part of the project, the team conducts interviews with experts from relevant cost and measure providers. On the basis of these interviews, the PräKiT project analyses the attitudes and resources for action in the organizations and formulates recommendations for shaping the communication process. The focus is on questions regarding the conditions under which a standardization of quality standards is supported and how this consensus process could be shaped from the perspective of the stakeholders.

Project duration: 2015 - 2016

Project management: Prof. Dr. Anja Voss, Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär

Project staff: Dr. Michael Noweski, Maria Ihm

A standardization process of the quality of measures is currently taking place in health prevention by setting new quality standards. The aim of the project is to take stock of the current quality standards for primary obesity prevention measures for children. Data will be collected through a systematic literature search in relevant databases and search engines (Medline, Springer Link, Thieme Connect, Google Scholar), as well as an analysis of relevant documents from science and practice. Although various organizations and specialist disciplines are involved in the standardization of the quality of measures, it is expected that, in addition to different concepts, there will also be similarities in terms of content. The results of the inventory are intended to show ways of developing common standards that can be established as part of a nationwide consensus process.

Further information can be found in the ASH Berlin research database.

Project duration: 2010 - 2012

Project management:Prof. Dr. Anja Voss (ASH Berlin), Prof. Dr. Susanne Viernickel (Leipzig University)

Project staff:
Dipl. Psych. Elvira Mauz, MPH, Frauke Gerstenberg B.A. Early Childhood Education, Maria Schumann, MPH

Cooperation partners:
Unfallkasse Nordrhein-Westfalen
Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (German Social Accident Insurance)

We will only copy current, ongoing research projects at this point.
You can add further projects if required, although it would be desirable for them to be up to date.

Voss, A. (2024). Health-promoting organizational development in child day care facilities. Public Health Forum, 32(3), 207-209. https://doi.org/10.1515/pubhef-2024-0063

Böhm, U., Müller, F., & Voss, A. (2024). How and in which spaces do we want to learn and teach? Future-oriented learning architectures for future-oriented higher education. alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 46, 68-69.

Voss, A. (2024). Health education in day care centers. In T. Friedrich, K. Liebers, V. Jankowicz, S. Reinhold, & M. Rönnau-Böse (Eds.), Facets of professionalization in the system of early childhood education, care and upbringing. Festschrift for Susanne Viernickel (193-206). FEL Publishing House. DOI: 10.69153/fel005

Voss, A., & Hruska, C. (2024). Reflection and reflexivity competence. In C. Schmude & M. Brodowski (Eds.), Handbuch Kindheitspädagogik: Grundlagen - Forschungsmethoden - Professionelles Handeln (323-340). Carl Link.

Böhm, U., Schäuble, B., & Voss, A. (2024). Reflecting, making visible, further developing and strategically anchoring practice-oriented teaching: A project in cooperation between the research project Sage SAGE! and the Competence Network Quality Development in Studies and Teaching (KomNetz-QSL). alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 46, 22-24.

Voss, A., Gosch, A., & Erhart, M. (2023). Setting and addressees for physical activity-related health promotion: day-care centers. In A. Thiel, S. Tittlbach, G. Sudeck, P. Wagner, & A. Woll (Eds.), Handbuch bewegungsbezogene Gesundheitsförderung (364-374). Hofmann.

Voss, A. (2022). Employee health in the daycare setting. Durchblick, 11/22, 28-31.

Voss, A., Mauz, E., & Schumann, M. (2022). Exercise as a building block of health promotion in daycare centers - also for pedagogical professionals?!!! Lower Saxony Institute for Early Childhood Education and Development. https://www.nifbe.de/component/themensammlung?view=item&id=1055:bewegung-als-baustein-der-gesundheitsfoerderung-in-kitas&catid=85

Voss, A. (2022). Focus on health in early education: The new Institute for Quality Development and Health Promotion in Early Education Institutions (QuIB). Pediatric Practice: Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 93, 318-319. https://www.kinderaerztliche-praxis.de/a/neues-institut-gesundheit-in-der-fruehen-bildung-im-fokus-2436470

Voss, A., Kuss, M., & Lohse, K. (2022). Physical activity practices of 3- to 6-year-old children before and during the corona pandemic. In J. Schwier & M. Seyda (Eds.), Movement, Play and Sport in Childhood. transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:30791

Voss, A., & Kuss, M. (2022). Effects of the corona pandemic on the everyday physical activity of 3- to 6-year-old children in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 43, 26-27.

Voss, A., Winter, J., & Hruska, C. (2022). Research-oriented and self-reflective: The reformed second professional field phase in the study program Childhood Education. alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 43, 106-107.

Voss, A. (2022). "We want to create good starting conditions for all children and young people in the long term." An interview with Astrid-Sabine Busse, Senator for Education, Youth and Family. alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 43, 22-23.

Voss, A., Gosch, A. & Erhart, M. (2022): Bewegungsbezogene Gesundheitsförderung in Kindertageseinrichtungen. In: A. Thiel, S. Tittlbach, P. Wagner, P. & A. Woll (Eds.). Handbuch Bewegung und Public Health. A textbook on exercise-related health promotion. Hofmann.

Voss, A., Erhart, M., & Gosch, A. (2021). Health education in day care centers. In M. Goldfriedrich & K. Hurrelmann (Eds.), Health didactics (240-262). Beltz Juventa.

Gosch, A., Erhart, M., & Voss, A. (2021). Health education in institutions for children under three. In M. Goldfriedrich & K. Hurrelmann (Eds.), Health didactics (218-239). Beltz Juventa.

Voss, A. (2021, July 16). Learning in motion: Movement promotion and education in early childhood education. Interview with Anja Voss. kindergartenpaedagogik.de. https://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/fachartikel/bildungsbereiche-erziehungsfelder/bewegungserziehung-psychomotorik/lernen-in-bewegung/

Voss, A., & Abeck, I. (2021). Developmental tasks and their bridging function between theory and everyday practice - a suitable concept for psychomotricity? In H. Jessel & A. Krus (Eds.), Psychomotorics digital (77-92). Published by Aktionskreis Psychomotorik.

Völter, B., Bessler, A., Gahleitner, S. B., Piechotta-Henze, G., Voss, A. (eds.) (2021): #systemrelevant. 50 years of applied SAGE sciences at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Social Work SPEZIAL - Series on Theory and Practice. Berlin: Self-published by DZI 2021.

Völter, B., Bessler, A., Gahleitner, S. B., Piechotta-Henze, G., & Voss, A. (Eds.). (2021). #systemrelevant: 50 years of applied SAGE sciences at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Soziale Arbeit SPEZIAL - Publication series on theory and practice. Self-published by DZI.

Kasberg, A., Hansjürgens, R., Voss, A., Bär, A., Eichinger, U., Geene, R., Gerull, S., Höppner, H., Köbsell, S., Piechotta-Henze, G., Rätz, R., Schäuble, B., Völter, B. (2021). SAGE science in social responsibility in and after the pandemic. In B. Völter, A. Bessler, S. B. Gahleitner, G. Piechotta-Henze, & A. Voss (Eds.), #systemrelevant: 50 years of applied SAGE sciences at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Soziale Arbeit SPEZIAL - Schriftenreihe zur Theorie und Praxis (35-41). Self-published by DZI.

Voss, A. (2021). Childhood educators on their careers and career paths: Anja Voss in conversation with Frauke Gerstenberg and Katharina Nicolai. In B. Völter, A. Bessler, S. B. Gahleitner, G. Piechotta-Henze, & A. Voss (Eds.), #systemrelevant: 50 years of applied SAGE sciences at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Social Work SPEZIAL - Series on Theory and Practice (65-67). Self-published by DZI.

Voss, A., Kasberg, A., Schäuble, B., Völter, B., Bär, G., Piechotta-Henze, G., Höppner, H., Geene, R., Rätz, R., Hansjürgens, R., Dennhardt, S., Gerull, S., & Eichinger, U. (2020). Statement: SAGE scientists in socio-political responsibility. A statement on the corona pandemic and its consequences. https://d-nb.info/1221668870/34

Voss, A., & Schumann, M. (2020). Health of pedagogical employees. In Deutsches Jugendinstitut & Weiterbildungsinitiative Frühpädagogische Fachkräfte (eds.), Health promotion in daycare centers: Basics for competence-oriented continuing education (24-33). WiFF Wegweiser Weiterbildung. https://doi.org/10.36189/wiff22020

Voss, A. (2020). "I can do it!" Resource orientation in everyday daycare. Praxis Kita, 61, 42-49.

Gramespacher, E., & Voss, A. (2020). Gender in early childhood movement education-A necessary dimension! German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 50(3), 339-342. doi. org/10.1007/s12662-020-00665-8

Voss, A. (2020). Noise: High exposure. Guest commentary. Education & Science, 5/2020, 2.

Voss, A. (2020). Hengstenberg, Elfriede. socialnet Lexicon.www. socialnet.de/lexikon/Hengstenberg-Elfriede

Voss, A. (2020). editorial. motorik , 43(2), 57. doi. org/10.2378/mot2020.art10d

Voss, A. (2020). Practical tip: Gender equality in psychomotor practice. motorik, 43(2), 94-95.

Gramespacher, E., Voss, A. & Rayling, S. (2020). Gender - (k)ein Thema für die Psychomotorik? motorik, 43(2), 86-93.

Voss, A. (2019). Specialist educator for integration: A new further education course at ASH Berlin qualifies students of the Education in Childhood from summer semester 2020. alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 38/2019, 91.

Voss, A., Bär, G., & Borde, T. (2019). Health is a cross-cutting issue. alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 38/2019, 50-52.

Voss, A., & Nentwig-Gesemann, I. (2019). Movement in early childhood. Early Education, 8(2), 71-72. https://doi.org/10.1026/2191-9186/a000420

Voss, A. (2019). Childhood of movement? Social changes and their effects on children's movement behavior. motorik, 42, 131-137.

Schumann, M., Mauz, E., & Voss, A. (2019). Movement as a resource for the work ability of pedagogical professionals in daycare centers. Early Education, 8(2), 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1026/2191-9186/a000424

Gramespacher, E., & Voss, A. (2019). Gender in early childhood physical education - a neglected dimension. Early Education, 8(2), 117-119. https://doi.org/10.1026/2191-9186/a000427

Voss, A., & Nentwig-Gesemann, I. (2019). Editorial: Movement in early childhood. Early Education, 8(2), 71-72. https://doi.org/10.1026/2191-9186/a000420

Voss, A. (Ed.). (2019). Movement and sport in childhood education. Kohlhammer. doi. org/10.17433/978-3-17-028441-8

Voss, A. (2019). Sport and movement-related pedagogy in early childhood - a review. In A. Voss (Ed.), Movement and sport in childhood education (pp.17-36). Kohlhammer. https://doi.org/10.17433/978-3-17-028441-8

Voss, A., & Gramespacher, E. (2019). Gender - a relevant category in early childhood physical education. In A. Voss (Ed.), Movement and sport in childhood education, (pp.138-151). Kohlhammer. https://doi.org/10.17433/978-3-17-028441-8

Voss, A. (2019). The change in children's worlds of movement as a challenge for the institution of daycare centers. In A. Voss (Ed.), Movement and sport in childhood education (pp.49-70). Kohlhammer. https://doi.org/10.17433/978-3-17-028441-8

Schumann, M., Mauz, E., & Voss, A. (2019). Exercise in daycare centers - health resource or burden for pedagogical professionals? In A. Voss (Ed.), Movement and sport in childhood education (pp. 94-106). Kohlhammer. https://doi.org/10.17433/978-3-17-028441-8

Voss, A., & Funke, B. (2019). Promoting physical activity in public spaces: "pretty perfect actually!" - Results and perspectives of a pilot project in Berlin neighborhoods with special development needs. In A. Arampatzis, S. Braun, K. Schmitt, & B. Wolfarth (Eds.), Sport in Public Space. 24th dvs-Hochschultag, Berlin, September 18-20, 2019 (p. 226). Feldhaus.

Noweski, M., Bär, G., Voss, A., Ihm, M. & Fricke, L. (2018). Quality standards in primary prevention. Präv Gesundheitsf 13, 97-102 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-017-0630-1

Erzberger, D., Hähner, S., Prof. Dr. Höppner, H., Kemna, R., Lau, N., Maier, M., Naumann, S., Stallmann, J., Prof. Dr. Voss, A. & Wachtel, W. (2018). Nice to meet you - SAGE professions meet at "Shadowing". Pilot project of the study programs EBK and PT/ET in the summer semester 2018. alice. magazine of the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 36, 60-61.

Voss, A., Ihm, M., Noweski, M., & Bär, G. (2018). Quality discourse in childhood obesity prevention. In E. Quilling, U. Walter, & K. Dadaczynski (Eds.), Obesity in childhood and adolescence. Strategies and practice of lifestyle-related prevention and health promotion (pp. 199-210). Hogrefe.

Voss, A. (2018). Health promotion in the daycare setting from a salutogenetic perspective. Theory and Practice of Social Pedagogy, 6, 12-15. Klett Fachverlage.

Voss, A., & Khayat, B. (2017). Student health as a building block of a health-promoting university. Status quo and perspectives at ASH Berlin. In Gesundheit Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (Ed.), Documentation Congress Poverty & Health, Berlin.

Voss, A., Viernickel, S., & Mauz, E. (2017). Workplace daycare center. Recognizing stress, promoting health. Beltz Juventa.

Voss, A., & Viernickel, S. (2016). Gute gesunde Kita: Bildung und Gesundheit in Kindertageseinrichtungen. Verlag das Netz.

Bär, G., Noweski, M., Ihm, M., & Voss, A. (2016). Obesity prevention in children: standard-setting documents.Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 11, 1405-1414. Federal Ministry of Health. https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/fileadmin/Dateien/5_Publikationen/Praevention/Berichte/Abschlussbericht_QuaK.pdf

Bär, G., Voss, A., Noweski, M., & Ihm, M. (2016). Quality standards of obesity prevention in children - An inventory (QuAK). In Gesundheit Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (Ed.), Documentation Congress on Poverty and Health, Berlin.

Voss, A. (2016). On the way to a health-promoting university. A study on working conditions and health at ASH Berlin. alice - Magazin der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, 32, 6.

Nentwig-Gesemann, I., Schmude, C., Voss, A., & Widdascheck, C. (2015). University and professional field as places of learning and education? A look by university lecturers at the internship phases in the Childhood Education and Training (EBK) degree program. alice. Magazine of the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, 30, 28-29.

Schierz, M., & Voss, A. (2015). Playgrounds as places of structured and structuring body practices. In B. Hünersdorf (ed.), Spiel_Plätze in der Stadt. Social space analytical, childhood theoretical and (social) pedagogical perspectives (pp. 115-126). Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.

Voss, A., Khayat, B., & Kuhn, D. (2015). "alice gesund" - Occupational health management at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Concept, realization, perspectives. In A. Göring & D. Möllenbeck (Eds.), Movement-oriented health promotion at universities. Theoretical perspectives, empirical findings and practical examples (pp. 363-370). University Press Göttingen.

Voss, A., & Mauz, E. (2015). Movement in everyday daycare - resource or burden for pedagogical professionals? In R. Zimmer (Ed.), Movement in early childhood education - Interdisciplinary research approaches (pp. 81-91). Feldhaus Verlag.

Voss, A., Viernickel, S., Mauz, E., & Schumann, M. (2014). Health in the daycare center workplace. Strengthening resources, reducing stress. In Prevention in NRW - Publication series of the Unfallkasse NRW, 55.

Bär, G., Baeumer, F., & Voss, A. (2014). Salutogenesis as an integrating concept for the health, social and educational professions? A look at teaching and professional practice at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. The human being. Journal for Salutogenesis and Anthropological Medicine, 49(2), 49-53.

Voss, A., Viernickel, S., Mauz, E., & Schumann, M. (2014). Workplace daycare: dream or trauma. Kinder, Kinder. Die Zeitschrift für Sicherheit und Gesundheit in Kindertageseinrichtungen, 1, 12-13. German Social Accident Insurance.

Voss, A., & Mauz, E. (2013). Sport and exercise - resource or burden in the everyday life of educational professionals in day-care centers? In F. Mess, M. Gruber, & A. Woll (Eds.), Sportwissenschaft grenzenlos?! (S. 185). Feldhaus Verlag.

Voss, A., Viernickel, S., Mauz, E., & Schumann, M. (2013). Health resources and stress of childcare workers - (also) a question of structural framework conditions? KiTa aktuell. NRW professional journal for managers and professionals in child day care, 22(2), 39-41.

Viernickel, S., Voss, A., Mauz, E., & Schumann, M. (2013). Stresses and resources in the daycare center workplace - Does the daycare center make you sick? Safety Officer, 7-8, 1-5.

Voss, A. (Ed.). (2011). Gender in education. Places of formal and informal learning of gender in sport. Feldhaus.

Voss, A. (2011). Everyday gender life in movement kindergarten. In A. Voss, Geschlecht im Bildungsgang - Orte formellen und informellen Lernens von Geschlecht im Sport (pp. 45-56). Feldhaus Verlag.

Voss, A. (2006). Health sport from a gender perspective. In I. Hartmann-Tews & B. Rulofs (Eds.), Handbuch Sport und Geschlecht (pp. 89-96). Hofmann Verlag.

Gieß-Stüber, P., & Voss, A. (2005). Method integration - A way out of the reification trap? In P. Gieß-Stüber & G. Sobiech (Eds.), Equality and difference in motion. Development and perspectives for gender research in sport (pp. 37-45). Czwalina-Verlag.

Voss, A., & Gieß-Stüber, P. (2004). Sport and movement pedagogy in the mirror of social constructivist gender theory. In M. Schierz & P. Frei (Eds.), Sportpädagogisches Wissen. Specificity, transfer, transformation (pp. 84-97). Czwalina-Verlag.

Voss, A. (2003). Gender in sport - social constructivist readings. Hofmann Publishing House.

Voss, A. (2003). Balance and perspectives of health promotion in sports clubs - The clubs for health sports and sports therapy. In K. Eisfled, U. Wiesmann, H.-J. Hannich, & P. Hirtz (Eds.), Gesund und bewegt ins Alter. Interdisciplinary approaches for community medicine (pp. 109-115). Afra Verlag.

Gieß-Stüber, P., Voss, A., & Petry, K. (2003). GenderKids - Gender everyday life in the promotion of physical activity in early childhood. In I. Hartmann-Tews, P. Gieß-Stüber, M. L. Klein, Chr. Kleindienst-Cachay, & K. Petry (Eds.), Social construction of gender in sport (pp. 69-108). Leske + Budrich. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11404-8_3

Franke, A., & Voss, A. (2003). Health, gender and university. mundo. The magazine of the University of Dortmund, 1, 53-55.

Wetterer, A., & Voss, A. (2003). Gender constructions in sportive scenes. In R. Becker & B. Kortendiek (Eds.), Netzwerk Frauenforschung NRW. Research Report 2001-2002 (pp. 34-35). Dortmund.

Voss, A. (2002). Coeducational physical education for and against. Empirical findings on female teachers' views. In C. Kugelmann & Ch. Zipprich (Eds.), Girls and boys in physical education. Proceedings of the 2nd Congress of the German Sports Teachers' Association (DSLV) from April 6-8, 2000 in Augsburg (pp. 57-67). Czwalina-Verlag.

Voss, A. (2002). The social construction of gender relations in the promotion of physical activity in early childhood. In G. Friedrich (Ed.), Sportpädagogische Forschung. Concepts - Results - Perspectives. Annual conference of the dvs section Sport Pedagogy, 14-16.06.2001 in Münster (pp. 340-346). Czwalina-Verlag.

Voss, A. (1999). Gender-play in youth sport scenes. Social scientific observations on the dissolution of traditional gender representations. In B. Blanke & K. Fietze (Eds.), Identity and gender (pp. 211-220). Czwalina Verlag.