Region: Stuttgart
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Against the closure and cancelation of the university gym (University of Stuttgart)

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Studierenden und Mitarbeitenden der Universität Stuttgart sowie weitere Nutzer:innen des Kraftraumes

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340 Unterschriften

225 von 3.700 für Quorum in Stuttgart Stuttgart
  1. Gestartet 14.05.2025
  2. Sammlung noch > 4 Monate
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Petition richtet sich an: Studierenden und Mitarbeitenden der Universität Stuttgart sowie weitere Nutzer:innen des Kraftraumes

Against the closure and cancelation of the university gym – For active inclusion, encounters and solidarity
 
Dear Dr. Haag,
Dear members of the university management,
Dear representatives of staff, students and doctoral candidates,
 
With great dismay, we learned of the planned closure of the university gym. This decision is not only a bitter setback for the users directly affected. Still, it is also symbolic of a development that contradicts the university's claim to be a university of exchange, solidarity, inclusion and community.
 
The gym is much more than a place for sport. It is a meeting place – a place where students, doctoral candidates and academic and technical staff come together daily. Discussions, contacts and community arise here across interdisciplinary and interfaculty boundaries. People from a wide variety of backgrounds learn from and support each other - inclusion and exchange are not just proclaimed here, they are practised.
 
Several hundred users are regularly active in the gym. The proximity to their place of study or work and the flexible opening hours enable many to integrate sport into their often busy everyday lives. Particularly at a time when mental and physical health are increasingly becoming the focus of attention, as demonstrated by numerous UniGesund campaigns, the closure of such a highly frequented, health-promoting and low-threshold facility seems simply contradictory.
 
For projects such as “Glow up our Campus”, funds are being used - and quite rightly so - to transform the campus into a creative meeting space. The gym is already such a place. A space that does not need to be designed, but has been naturally living what is propagated in glossy brochures and on social media for years: Solidarity, diversity, openness and togetherness.

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The deletion of this offer without a transparent and comprehensible justification means far more than the closure of a sports offer. It is a symbolic cutback against the very essence of a university as a social community.
 
We therefore call on you emphatically, but with due respect: Revise the decision to close the weight room. An institution that prides itself on inclusion, exchange and community must not blindly turn its back on a space in which precisely these values are brought to life every day.
 
Respectfully,
Users of the university gym

Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung, Erik Eppinger, Stuttgart
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Petition gestartet: 14.05.2025
Sammlung endet: 12.11.2025
Region: Stuttgart
Kategorie: Sport

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Warum Menschen unterschreiben

Because I really love the community and the people in this gym. It will be very sad for everyone to close this gym!

As a student resign on campus, it's the only accessible gym and taking it away would be a very negative impact on us.

Gym is an important place where one can release stress by working out not just mentally but physically and emotionally. The gym is place where i come after long day of mental work by sitting in front of the computer, here I work out on my physical fitness which not only benefits my physical health but also mental health. It would be better that the gym is not closed.

I enjoy having access to a gym near my living conditions that doesn’t take long to get to without a car, It has everything I need and theres plenty of room for it to improve.

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