As the FISU Healthy Campus project continues to roll forward, it was the turn of pilot university Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) in Moscow to get the ball rolling on their campus. Two days of visits led by FISU President Oleg Matytsin and Executive Committee member Fernando Parente, resulted in an agreement to have the intervention of the university’s sports program in the Healthy Campus project.
L-R: Sergey Vitorovich, Oleg Matytsin, Vladimir Filippov, Fernando Parente“This project is a key part of FISU’s strategic objectives and is a fundamental instrument to promote physical activity and health as a global concept,” said FISU President Matytsin. “It will also help develop relationships with universities around the world and among FISU members as well.”
Also present at the series of meetings was the Rector of RUDN Vladimir Filippov, who has also served as a former Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
“This project is fundamental to the development of a healthy life on campus,” said Filippov. “It is vitally important to involve universities in international projects such as this one of FISU. RUDN is one of the most active universities in the world and is also one of ten universities chosen to pilot the ‘Living Values’ project of the Magna Charta of European Universities.”
The Magna Charta Universitatum that he referred to, is a network of around 900 universities from 90 countries.According to Filippov, RUDN is known not only for its research but also for its multiculturalism, with students from around 160 countries represented.
The second day of the meeting was led by the head of RUDN’s Vice-President for Student Affairs Sergey Vitorovich, who held several meetings with sports, communication, health and student leaders as well as visits to sports facilities around the campus.
The next and final round of meetings at this stage will be held with La Matanza in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Once the project is rolled out by the pilot universities, a full-fledged roll out will be announced, expectedly for January 2020.