Andreas Csonka, SUSF President
LAUSANNE – From 3 to 5 June, the Swiss University Sports Conference was held in Lausanne. All the different meetings, presentations and conferences, among them also a presentation of FISU Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond, were held in the University Sports Centre of Dorigny. The directors of all the Swiss University Sports Organisations discussed among other topics the future strategy of “University Sports Switzerland”, informed each other about the development in the local University Sports Organisations, focussed on aspects of the security in the different sports programmes and on the combination of high-level sports and studies.
FISU SG/CEO Eric Saintrond
The University Sport of Lausanne under the leadership of Georges-André Carrel was the host of the annual conference. Benoît Frund, Vice-Rector of the University of Lausanne, welcomed the participants to the conference. More than 40 university sports teachers of all Swiss Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences took part. The Directors’ Conference and the University Sports Conference was lead by its President Reto Zimmermann, University of Bern, and Andreas Csonka, the President of the Swiss University Sports Federation, took part by presenting his idea about the role of the Swiss NUSF in the context of the development of sport in general and high-level sport in particular. Csonka also stressed the importance of the candidature for the 2019 Winter Universiade by the Canton of Valais for the Swiss University Sports Federation in particular and Switzerland in general.
Honorary member Georges-André Carrel & Reto Zimmermann, President of Swiss University Sports Conference
Dr Raphaël Bize from the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine presented the project ‘Métasanté’ with the goal of promoting sports in the urban area of Lausanne. Eric Saintrond not only gave a historical overview of FISU, but also showed the development of FISU in Lausanne. He presented also some ideas under the motto “Back to Campus”.
Georges-André Carrel, Benoît Frund, Eric Saintrond, Leonz Eder & Roger Roth
Five workshops, prepared by Patrick Udvardi, University of Lucerne, and the meeting of the Technical Committee of SUSF, lead by Markos Michaelides, concluded the conference in Lausanne. As a final highlight the title of honorary member was awarded to Georges-André Carrel. Leonz Eder, Managing Director of SUSF and FISU Vice-President, held the laudatio for Carrel.
The next conference will be hosted in the Italian part of Switzerland, in Tenero, in 2014.
(Source: SUSF/Leonz Eder)