As a ‘Diplom Sportwissenschaftler’, Wolfgang Schabert is a graduate sports scientist and has been the managing director of Institut für Kooperative Planung und Sportentwicklung (ikps) [Institute for Cooperative Planning and Sports Development] in Stuttgart since 2011. The work of ikps and Schabert focuses on the social scientific monitoring of and support for processes of changes in sports policy and particularly in municipal sports development planning. Across Germany, ikps has been advising municipalities, clubs and associations for many years, among other things on issues of demand and the realignment of sports facilities.
