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Prof. Filip Mess conducts research in field intervention implementation, focusing on health education. His goal is to enable individuals, particularly children and young people, to lead active, healthy, and sustainable lifestyles within their living environments using competence-oriented approaches. His core expertise lies in the development and implementation of didactic concepts that strengthen movement and health skills while promoting educational processes. He examines how movement and sport can serve as crucial stimuli in this context. Prof. Mess's research also aims to shape living environments, especially in schools, workplaces, communities, and health care facilities, in collaboration with corresponding target groups, addressing socially relevant challenges such as health education, equal opportunities, demographic change, and sustainable development. He studied sport science and mathematics pedagogy at the University of Konstanz, completing his undergraduate degree in 2003, followed by a PhD in 2007 and a postdoctoral teaching qualification in 2014 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In 2014, he was appointed to a W3-professorship at the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd and in 2015/16, he took a professorship in Didactic Methods in Sport and Health at the Technical University of Munich.