Skip to content
Home News EUSA Executive Committee meets in Zurich

EUSA Executive Committee meets in Zurich

26 October 2015

 

 

ZURICH – The last meeting of the Executive Committee of the European University Sports Association (EUSA) in 2015 was held in the city of Zurich on October 23 and 24. The meeting was hosted by the Swiss University Sport Federation (SHSV/SUSF) and Academic Sports Association Zurich (ASVZ), with the support of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the University of Zurich.

The 2-day meeting started with the office and financial reports, continued with the reports of the Commissions, Sport events and sport related matters were presented and discussed in more details, starting with the current season of the European Universities Championships and progress report on the 2017 events. The European Universities Games were discussed next, starting from the edition coming up next year in Zagreb-Rijeka, 2018 edition in Coimbra and the bidding process for the 2020 European Universities Games.

Special projects, were also presented and discussed, supported by FISU and the European Commission. Current EU-supported projects include the projects under the national agencies, including the European Voluntary Service (EVS) and Sport Plays Mixed, as well as on pan-European level, including SCORE – Promotion of Gender Equality in Coaching, and the new project Voices for truth and dignity (VOICE) – Combatting sexual violence in European sport through the voices of those affected – EUSA being a partner in both.

EUSA projects and activities partially also supported by FISU are the operation of EUSA Office in Ljubljana, Executive Committee and Internal Meetings, Print and Social media, European Universities Championships, EUSA Exhibition and Tour, EUSA Conference, Training Programmes and Social Responsibility projects. International cooperation, starting with FISU and other University Sport Continental Organisations was presented, as well as the information from the EUSA members, national university sports bodies, EUSA partner organisations and other organisations.

The agenda of the meeting concluded with the topic of Conferences and Meetings, confirming the dates and venue of the 2016 EUSA General Assembly, which will be held between April 7 and 10 in Wroclaw, Poland, and the EC members also discussed the EUSA Conference in 2017.

For more information, please see www.eusa.eu.

 

(Source: EUSA)