Who hasn't experienced this? You're taking part in a race and you can hear your own heartbeat. There's no doubt about it: the heart has a lot to do during sport. Why this is the case and what the heart has to do - that's what the eight to twelve-year-old KinderUni students will find out in the lecture "On your marks, get set, go! Sport is great - or what does our heart have to say about it?" on Wednesday, 17 September at 4.30 pm in the Audimax of the Lecture Centre.
Together with the children, sports scientist Dr Mirko Brandes investigates how the heart reacts during sport, when and why it beats faster or slower and why it can grow, but also become smaller again. Tickets (2 euros) for this and the two other lectures in the autumn semester are available online via Nordwest Ticket GmbH (www.nordwest-ticket.de) and at the offices of the Nordwest-Zeitung. Admission to the lecture theatre centre (building A14) is from 4.00 pm. Adults do not need an admission ticket - they are not allowed in the lecture theatre, but can follow the lectures on a screen in the foyer of the lecture theatre centre. The Malteser Hilfsdienst will provide security on site.
Anyone who would like to familiarise themselves with the topic of the lecture now has the opportunity to do so in the children's library at the PFL and all Oldenburg district libraries. Special book tables have been set up here.
The media partners of the KinderUniversität Oldenburg are the Nordwest-Zeitung, NDR 1 Niedersachsen and Radio Bremen Vier. The project is supported by Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg (LzO) as well as Nordmetall, the business association "Der Kleine Kreis e.V." and "Junge Öffentliche".