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Conference History
FISU Conference
1960-1999
Sixties
September 19th, 1960 Magglingen, SUI 'Sport as a Recreational Element in Student Life'
September 25th to 29th, 1962 Obertrauw, AUT 'The Role of University Sport in Students' General Education'
September 21st to 25th, 1964 London, GBR 'University Sport and Sport in General'
September 19th to 23rd, 1966 Grunwald, GER 'High Level Sport and University'
September 16th to 21st, 1968 Haifa, ISR 'Today's Student and Sport'
Seventies
September 19th to 25th, 1971 Billingehus, SWE 'A Dialogue between the Generations'
September 8th to 14th, 1974 Hyvinkää, FIN 'Students' Attitude to Sports' 'Participation in Sports and Success at University'
August 18th to 20th, 1977 Sofia, BUL 'The Development of University Sport'
September 3rd to 9th, 1979 Mexico City, MEX 'Sports Medicine, Sports Legislation and Sport for the Masses'
Eigthies
July 20th to 22nd, 1981 Bucharest, ROM 'University Sport, an Element in the Quality of Life'
July 2nd to 4th, 1983 Edmonton, CAN 'The Role of the University in the Development of Modern Sport: Past, Present and Future'
August 26th to 28th, 1985 Kobe, JPN 'University Sport in a Society in Transformation'
July 10th to 12th, 1987 Zagreb, YUG 'The importance of University Sport and Physical Education' 'Innovative Experiments in University Physical Education and Sports Programmes' 'Medical and Health Benefits' 'The Role of University Sport in International Collaboration'
Nineties
July 5th to 17th, 1991 Sheffield, GBR 'Sports and Environment'
July 8th to 11th, 1993 Buffalo, USA 'Changes in Human Size and Physical Activity'
August 24th to 26th, 1995 Fukuoka, JPN 'Sports and Man: Create a New Vision'
August 23rd to 24th, 1997 Catania, ITA 'University Sport in the 21st Century: Goals, Organisation, Financing'
July 7th to 9th, 1999 Palma de Mallorca, ESP 'University Sport, Factor in Democracy, Equity and Culture'
FISU Conference - Beijing, China
August 23rd to 25th, 2001
THEME & TOPICS
Main Theme: 'Unity, Friendship and Progress of Humanity through University Sport'
Sub-Themes:
1. Practice of University Sports: Ideal and Education
2. University Sports: Means of Cultivating Outstanding Citizens
3. University Sports: Healthy and Pleasant Lifestyle
4. Development of Sports: A New Tendency in University Sports
5. Organizational Management of University Sports
VENUE
Beijing University of Physical Education
FISU Conference - Daegu, Korea
August 22nd to 26th, 2003
THEME & TOPICS
General Theme: Facing the challenge: tradition and innovation in university sports
Sub Topics: Sports in University life - Student motivation for participation in university sports; - University sports : recreation, leisure, fitness, competition, training; - Sports facilities and university sports; - Pleasant healthy life through sports and physical activity. Functional issues of sports inside the university - Management and university sports; - Medical aspects of university sports; - University sports and communication(internal and external); - University sports and technology; - Methodological and measurement issues in sport study. University sports in society - The relationship between university sports and professionalism in sports; - University sports in a performance-oriented society; - University sports and globalization; - Moral issues such as drug, violence… in university sports; - Strategies for performance enhancement in university sports.
VENUE
Yeungnam University was established in 1947, in response to the needs of the community. Since its establishment, the University has emerged as one of the leading universities in Korea. The Main Campus is comprised of about 900 scenic acres in Gyongsan near Metropolitan Daegu, and the College of Medicine and University Hospitals are located in Daegu. The University has 13 colleges and 36 schools with an undergraduate enrollment of 21,000. The Graduate School and 6 professional graduate schools are committed to the primary role of training specialists. The Yeungnam University Museum was selected and honored as one of the top nine museums and art galleries' among 1,000 museums and art galleries in Korea. The University is devoted to providing young generations with humanitarian, scientific and technological disciplines. The symbol of the University is the Cheonma, a mythical flying horse, which represents the vital spirit and the bright future of Yeungnam Univeristy.
FISU Conference - Izmir, Turkey
2005
VENUE
Ege University Atatürk Cultural Center
Conclusions, by Claude-Louis Gallien, CESU Chair
The 2005 FISU Conference took place in the frame of the 2005 International Year of Sport and Physical Education. Satisfaction The conference fitted with the expectations of CESU members: high scientific level, good participation: - 70 to 150 participants in the keynote speakers sessions many of them from the Universiade Village; - 46 posters from 9 countries; - 48 oral presentations from 11 countries. Pertinent questions and comments from the audience, good exchanges during oral presentations and poster sessions (and during breaks!) Sport is more than «sport»: - elite sport - mass sport - mediatic - non mediatic Christian Wopp - Giannis Koukoulas & Attila Gökce Sports changes rapidly: - in various aspects - in a changing global world ruled by the «market» and the «media» - short term aims - violence - racism - arrogance Christian Wopp - Giannis Koukoulas & Attila Gökce - Seyhan Hasirci There are different visions of sport: - North America - Europe - Asia - Oceania -Africa - South America Supitr Samahito - Maarten Van Bottenburg Petros Musidacho - Shams Zeinalabdin University changes rapidly in various aspects: - in a highly technological society - changes from a learned society to a learning society There are different models of universities North America - Europe - Asia - Oceania Africa - South America Supitr Samahito - Maarten Van Bottenburg Petros Musidacho - Shams Zeinalabdin Sport is not only a matter of education in universities: - sport might be considered as giving « prestige » to a university - sport might be considered a way to make university life more attractive Maarten Van Bottenburg Sport can be an aim or a tool -for fondamental or applied medical researches in universities Lawrence Rink - Jim Skinner - Dusan Hamar Sport - Ethics - Education -it is important to preserve the positive values of sport which favour harmonious development of the personality and not to identify ourselves with negative values of sport Attila Erdemli Repeating that sport is part of education is not sufficient - students should first be teached what is sport and what is the ethic of sport then only the practice of sports can be used as an educational tool - the exemplarity of champions relaying through the media - the educational projects of the universities FISU -should not be a sport structure like other sport structures that devote themselves to organize big spectacular sport events (performances) for profit’s sake only FISU - must justify its u: - and reinvest the benefits of big events like the universiade to support the educational role of sport in the universities with a special regard to those countries where university sports is very weak Anne Kettunen & Richard Toomer FISU - should support the efforts of national federations of university sport to give the best possible formations and informations to their students - We should be able to listen and answer students Anne Kettunen & Richard Toomer.
FISU Conference - Belgrade, Serbia
July 2nd-5th, 2009
Main Theme
The role of University sports in education and society - A platform for change
Sub Themes
- University sports: trends, opportunities and challenges
- University sports: a foundation for healthy lifestyle
- University sports: a foundation for fair play and ethical values
- University sports a foundation for education and academic achievement
- University sports: a foundation for sustainable universal development
VENUE
Faculty of sports and physical education - Belgrade University
History
The Faculty of Sports and Physical Education of the University of Belgrade is a scientifically-educational institution, which is continuously, since 1946, educating high-level educated stuff for Physical Education teaching in schools, as well as for sports and recreation. Since the academic year 2004 there are founded the Department for Sports and the Department for Physical Education on the Faculty. The origin of the Faculty goes to 1938, when it was founded first one-year school for the education of the staff from our field, i.e. from 1939, when it was opened as a School for Physical Education in the range of the College.
From 1946 to 1953 we used to work as The State Institute for the Physical Culture (hence the popular name DIF, which exists even now), and after that, from 1953 to 1956 as The Institute for the Physical Culture, in the period from 1956 to 1963 as the High School for Physical Education. In the year 1963 we were incorporated into the University of Belgrade. From 1978 to 1988 we exist as The Faculty for the Physical Education; from 1988 to 2000 as the Faculty of the Physical Culture and in the year 2000 we changed the name into the present one - Faculty of Sports and Physical Education. Naturally, the name changes have been the consequence of the significant reforms of the course of study, with the aim of as appropriate education of the stuff as possible.
Beside the basic activity, within the Stuff Centre of the Faculty there are trainings of the stuff for the lower coach ranks in the sports and recreation, in the contexts of the permanent education and skills improvement.
Methodical-Research Laboratory of the Faculty is gathering the material and the technical means, as well as the expert potentials of the Faculty, for the realization of the part of the lectures, expert and scientific development of the Faculty, as well as the collaboration with the sports associations and the clubs. The Laboratory is organized in such a way to enable the realization of the projects in the field of the computational-informational, mobility-biomechanical and medical-biological sector.
The Faculty's library provides the students with all the necessary literature for the exams, reading-room and great number of books and magazines (altogether 24,462 publications) from the field of physical culture.
In the premises of the library it is enabled for the students to access via internet all the expert, scientific and other information needed.
The Faculty publishes the journal ‘Physical Culture', the oldest organ from our field, which is being published for 61 years.
Close to the Faculty there are student dormitories, for which (like for the other ones on the territory of Belgrade) students of the Faculty can apply. Application term for the next academic year is in September. The condition for the grant of the student dormitory accommodation is successful studying and modest material resources of a student.
FISU Conference, Shenzhen, China
August 13th to 16th, 2011
“An alternative university project would be to integrate a multicultural and participatory approach in academic programs”
The Universiade is not only a multi-sport event but also an educational event which gives student-athletes and officials of delegations the opportunity to take part in an international academic conference supervised byFISUand hosted by the university of the city hosting the Games. The Conference is also very important for FISU because it builds up a very close relation between the university hosting the Conference and FISU.
Established in 1983, the Universityof Shenzhen hosted the Conference from August 13th to 16th. The organizers had collected no less than 830 abstracts, of which 400 were selected. More than 350 participants coming from 43 countries attended the event.
The presence of Ms. Yan Xiaopei, Vice-Mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal Government, at the Opening Ceremony of the Conference showed the importance given by the highest local authorities to this educational event. She gave a speech on the development of the city of Shenzhen and emphasized on how a major sporting event is the catalyst for driving in social and economic improvements for a city and its region. She also focused on the involvement of more than 1.2 million volunteers that had been prepared and trained by local leaders in order to support the organization of the Universiade.
The importance of combining sport and academic events was underlined by Mr. Claude-Louis Gallien, FISU President and Chair of the Committee for the Study of University Sports (CESU) in charge of educational activities in FISU:“... sport might play a major role in education; university sport must be a school for tomorrow’s decision-makers”.
Main Theme
"University Sport: From Culture of the "How" to Culture of the "Why". The Future Starts Here”.
Subthemes
- Impact of great sports events- Olympic Games and Universiades
- Education, Ethics and sport
- Healthy lifestyle promotion at university: education research and strategies for preventive and therapeutic intervention
- Anticipating new practices and events in university sports
- University Sport Industry: Development through positive exploration
Opening Speech of FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien
"It is a great pleasure and an honor for FISU to be once again here in China, the land where successful answers are given to the challenges of coupling modernity with rich and original traditions to achieve holistic technological, economical and social development.
Shenzhen is a «green» city, a young city with a young population, a city open to the world, a city facing toward the future. In fact, «The future starts here» in Shenzhen, and the 2011 FISU Summer Universiade Conference intends to be a milestone in that process.
Which future?
French writer André Malraux said: “The 21st century will be spiritual or will not be”.
In fact, making ethics and value systems endogenous to the decision systems is an urgent necessity for world stability, sustainability, wealth and peace.
An imperative condition for our societies to meet the expectations of future is to develop higher education projects that promote global consciousness and accountability among the students, who will be tomorrow’s decision makers.
The traditional university model, based on the partitioning of disciplines, focusing on technology and economy and promoting unified “global cultural criteria” as universal values, with little reference to the rich cultural diversity of humanity, has failed.
An alternative university project would be to integrate a multicultural and participatory approach in academic programs, with a continuing obligation of excellence in every way (excellence in mind and body). Combining sciences, cultures, arts and sports in university programs conveying ethical values would promote and foster a spirit of curiosity, originality and transversality, and make the students more active by arousing their questioning.
The affirmation ofAsiaon the international scene, with its five thousand years of history, highlights a worldview that is not that of the « global thought », but that of the cultural diversity. The integration of Asian thought (non dual, impermanent, cyclic, morphologic) and Occidental thought (dual, permanent, linear, teleological) can be fertile, as well as teaching the “how?” can be coordinated with teaching of the “why?”.
The 2011 FISU Summer Universiade Conference intends to be the starting point for a new educational concept linking:
- High technologies and environmental concerns,
- Economy and ethics,
- Culture of the «How» and culture of the «Why»,
- Culture of the «I» and culture of the «We»,
- Tradition and innovation,
- Competition and cooperation,
- Sport, education and health!
The Shenzhen University, our host for this Conference, is in the best position to play the winning cards of transdisciplinarity, ethics, culture and sport to initiate a revolution in higher education at world level."
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