More and more children cannot swim safely. The situation was worsened by the fact that hundreds of thousands of children were unable to attend swimming courses due to the corona pandemic. Accordingly the number of swimming tests decreased by 70 percent. In a pilot project by the Applied Sports Science Unit at the Technical University of Munich, students have now been trained to support swimming lessons in primary schools.
Due to the Corona pandemic, swimming lessons could not be offered for a long time by clubs, (swimming) schools and other institutions such as the Wasserwacht or the Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft (DLRG). ...