Conference of the Swiss University Sports Directors
BERNE – Under the leadership of chairman Roger Roth, University of Freiburg, the directors of the Swiss University Sports Organizations met at a conference in Berne.
One of the main topics was how to help and support students, who are also part of elite sports programs of the Swiss Olympic Association, at their universities.
Karin Rauber, responsible for career planning at Swiss Olympic and Fredi Schneider, head of elite sports at the Swiss University Sports Federation presented the goal to create a clear concept of promotion of these student athletes at the different Swiss Universities and Institutes for Higher Education. Flexible structures at the different schools should help to combine elite sport and studies. Prior to that conference the working group had also a meeting with Olaf Tabor, Managing Director the German University Sports Federation (ADH) in order to learn from the successful German example with the 90 ‘Partner Universities’ of the ADH.
Bertrand Robert, Sports Director at Neuchâtel University and Georges-André Carrel, Sports Director in Lausanne, presented the last layout of the new brochure of ‘University Sports Switzerland’, which soon will be printed in the four languages, namely German, French, Italian and English. Reto Zimmermann, Head of University Sports in Berne, gave an overview over the next national press conference to be held on November 23rd with the main topic of the results of a national survey at all Swiss Universities about the sports activities of the students. Leonz Eder, St. Gallen, informed about the news from FISU and EUSA and invited the Swiss University Sports Family to the annual conference to be held in St. Gallen from June 4-6, 2012. Finally Kaspar Egger, Director at ASVZ in Zurich and also member of the Swiss University Sports Foundation, explained the contents of the new contract with the SUSF main sponsor Credit Suisse.
(Source: SUSF Media)
Roger Roth, Fribourg, and SUSF Secretary General Cécile Büsser
Karin Rauber, Swiss Olympic, and Fredi Schneider, SUSF
Georges-André Carrel, Lausanne