BEIJING – AUSF Education and Development Centre (the Centre) hosted its annual meeting on 18 March 2016 in Capital University of Physical Education and Sports (CUPES) in China. Mr. ZHANG Xinsheng, AUSF President, Mr. CHEN Kunning, AUSF Vice-President and Chair of the Education Committee, Mr. XUE Yanqing, AUSF Vice Secretary General and Vice-President of the Federation of University Sports of China (FUSC), Mr. SEETOW Cheng Fave, AUSF Treasurer, Mr. ZHONG Bingshu, Vice-Chair of the AUSF Education Committee and CUPES President, Mrs. XIE Jun, Chief Director of the Centre and CUPES Vice-President, and Mr. SHEN Zhen, FUSC Vice-President and Vice-Chair of FISU CDSU were present at the meeting.
Under the leadership of FISU President, FISU CDSU, chaired by FISU 1st vice president Leonz Eder, insisted on FISU’s partnership with CUSFs. FISU needs promotion through CUSFs’ projects. In his welcome address, Mr. ZHANG Xinsheng expressed the heartfelt appreciation to FUSC, CUPES and the Centre for organising and running a wonderful platform. He emphasized that education should be one of the core values that AUSF cherished, and the Centre should play a more important role and contribute more in Educational programmes. On behalf of the Education Committee, Mr. CHEN Kunning extended his sincere gratitude to FUSC and CUPES for supporting the AUSF educational programmes. He reiterated that all the achievements in the past year should be attributed to a collective collaboration of all the staff members, and it was just a beginning of the meaningful career, together with AUSF and all the stakeholders could harvest more in the future. After that, Mr. ZHONG Bingshu shared the shock of the current economic slowing-down situation and expressed that despite the great difficulty, the Centre will endeavour no less in organising and promoting educational programmes.
On behalf of the Centre, Mrs. XIE Jun presented a comprehensive report on the Centre’s achievements in 2015. Then Mr. SEETOW Cheng Fave elaborated on the 1st AUSF Intensive Training Programme which was just held in Korea at the end of 2015.
In 2016, the Seminar for AUSF Secretary Generals will be held during the AUSF General Assembly in Xiamen, China in November, which is the first try-out to strengthen the communication with AUSF members. To follow the ‘reach-the-unreached’ strategy and let the training programme benefit more AUSF members, the 2ndAUSF Intensive Training programme will be initially hosted in South Asia in 2017.
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(Source: AUSF Secretariat)