KONTICH – From March 17th to 25th, 2012,Antwerp suburb Kontich (Belgium) is hosting the “Athlon Car Lease FIH Road toLondon” as qualifying field hockey tournament for the Olympic Games in 2012. FISU took this opportunity to meet with FIH in order to discuss the collaboration between FISU and FIH for the field hockey tournaments which […]
Hosting contract signing ceremony participants Taipei – It’s official. On the afternoon of March 25, the 11th FISU Forum in Taipei City played host to the 2017 Universiade Hosting Contract Signing Ceremony, which means Taipei is officially the host of the 29th Summer University Games, which will take place in August of 2017. “In the […]
KAZAN – The Kazan 2013 volunteer selection campaign has reached its half-year milestone, with the number of submitted applications totaling 13,000. Every day volunteer recruiters process hundreds of application forms. Below a digest of some interesting volunteer facts. Zufar Iskhakov from Zheleznogorsk, Kursk Region turned 78 on January 14, 2012. He’s the eldest applicant […]
GWANGJU – After the second day dedicated to the venues visit (football, handball, baseball, swimming, diving, gymnastics, fencing), CTI Chair John Warnock, SU Director Marc Vandenplas and WU Assistant Jiho Kim were joined by FISU Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond for their third day of the inspection visit of Gwangju 2015. After an opening meeting with […]
GWANGJU – Preceding the arrival of FISU Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond, the CTI Chair John Warnock, the Summer Universiade Director Marc Vandenplas and the Winter Universiade AssistantKim Jiho have started their one week visit to the 2015 Gwangju OC. They have already met representatives of the Sports and Venues Department during a morning meeting before […]
KAZAN – On March 16 the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate hosted a meeting with US students that arrived inRussia at the invitation of the Institute of Economics, Management and Law – one of University Partners of Kazan 2013. As part of their cultural exchange program, American students were offered to have a look at […]
KAZAN – On Friday, March 16, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited the construction site of the 45,000-capacity football stadium being built in the run up to the 27th Summer Universiade and held a working meeting in the site office to discuss the facilities the stadium will be equipped with. The President was joined on his […]
KAZAN – The Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate was given a unique opportunity to see the 27th Summer Universiade through the eyes of Kazan schoolchildren, as the school stage of the Team 2013 project has come to an end one of these days. The panel of judges composed of representatives of the Kazan 2013 Executive […]
