Dettmar Cramer Foundation

Carrying on the legacy of Dettmar Cramer is the main objective of DCF. DCF, the think tank in sports. DCF Think Tank Projects:"Project "Village Football India VFI" VFI will unite German football competence and football enthusiasm of rural Indian youth. • Since May 2018 more 800 players in some 30 teams from NCR Delhi and states of Haryana and Maharashtra did follow our call and joined VFI. • By end of 2018 we will establish leagues to improve Indian football quality and • by 2020 we will organize the first all India VFI-Championship boys/girls. Project “Chinese Social Football” - We are preparing the expansion of Chinese football population by adjusting European football success structures with Chinese characteristics- The program will surpass the international benchmark for registered players set by Germany- Our objectives for China: • 140 Million active footballers by 2025 • giving match opportunities to millions of academies' graduates • incorporating social football values into Chinese society • bringing Chinese amateur football to the digital world connecting clubs, players, business. „Workshop: The Neurological Turn in Education and Sport“ - Focusing on the significance of executive functions EF (self-regulation) in education and sport. Key speakers: leading experts from US-American, German, Swedish, Dutch, Chinese universities combined with practitioners demonstrating EF exercises "on the pitch"- Location: Peking University - Target Groups: Professional educators at kindergartens, schools, trainers, administrators in sport - Organization: Prof. Dong, Director of Research Centre for Gender, Children, Sport & Society, Peking University and Dettmar Cramer Foundation."Football Research in Asia"- What are the effects of playing football in a team competing in a league on the EF of kids- Testing EF of non-/football kids, gender related comparisons - Hypothesis: Football is an efficient tool to reduce the intellectual gap between the sexes