Summer Games

  GWANGJU – The Uni-friends – student ambassadors of the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade – were at the Gwangju World Cup Stadium on March 11th to support the local professional soccer team, Gwangju FC at its opening home game of the 2012 season. The 100 Uni-friends took part in ushering spectators into the stadium and […]

  KAZAN – Under the training program facilitated by the British Council, staff members of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate have begun to improve their English language proficiency. A series of free online English learning workshops will be launched under the ‘English for Kazan 2013’ – project focused on training volunteers and staff members of […]

BRUSSELS – Yesterday, February 2nd, 2012, the Director of the Summer Universiade, Marc Vandenplas and his Sport Assistant, Melanie Stallecker, welcomed the newly-elected CTI Chair,John Warnock and his two Vice Chairs Adam Roczek and Mauro Nasciutti for a one day working session inBrussels. Topics of discussion included the clarification and definition of communication channels between […]

 Azat Kadyrov (l)   KAZAN – 1st Deputy Director General of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate Azat Kadyrov underlined the high importance of the FISU Seminar which is running these days inKazan. The organizers of the seminar dedicated to the preparation and staging of the 27th World University Summer Games in Kazan are FISU, Kazan […]

    BRASILIA – The Olympic Center at the University of Brasilia (UnB) opened the schedule of the FISU Evaluation Committee, November 05th, in Brasília (DF). The federal capital is candidate to host the Summer Universiade in 2017 and the project of reshaping the sports facilities of UnB is one of the highlights of the […]

  EKATERINBURG – On October 16th, on U-Day marking the founding of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) and the FISU Flag Relay’s stay in Eketerinburg, the city’s circus hosted a grand concert dedicated to these two occasions. Participants of the grand-scale student talent festival offered the audience creative vocal, dance, comedy and drama performances. Each […]

  ULYANOVSK – The ‘Universiade in Your City!’ train with the FISU Flag Relay delegates on board arrived inUlyanovsk on September 11th. A warm welcome awaited the FISU Flag Relay participants at the railway station ofUlyanovsk. The Kazan 2013 delegates were surprised to be greeted with the music of a brass band; among other greeters were students […]