Winter Games

With the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade just less than three months away the official lighting ceremony of FISU University Games Flame Relay took place in Turin—home to the inaugural Universiade and holding great significance to the university sport community—before being transformed into water for the first time and passed on to its bearers. Water is […]

Lucerne 2021 delegation officials visiting StoosWith the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade now less than three months away, Heads of Delegations (HoD) from around the globe gathered in Central Switzerland on 8-10 September following the virtual HoD meeting that was held last June.   Delegations from all over the world reunited in the heart of Switzerland […]

With just under 100 days until the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade, FISU and the Lucerne 2021 Organising Committee (OC) announce their joint decision to maintain the major international multi-sport event for student-athletes, despite the difficult sanitary measures surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. In the event of this decision, FISU and the Organising Committee have come to […]

There are just 100 days left before the 30th edition of the Winter Universiade in Lucerne. The event will be held from 11 to 21 December 2021 and will take place in Central Switzerland and the Grisons to accommodate the various winter sports of the international competition. To mark the 100-day countdown, the Organising Committee […]

Registrations to take part in covering the 30th edition of the Winter Universiade in Lucerne, Switzerland, are now open to the media, worldwide. The world’s largest winter multisport event for student-athletes begins in less than five months, and the time has come for media representatives to register themselves to take part in this major international […]

Christoph Böcklin, credit: Swiss University SportsWith Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade just over five months away, preparations from all sides are well under way. And following the virtual Head of Delegation (HoD) meeting in late June, FISU media reached out to a Head of Delegation to have a better understanding of what their role is and […]

Preparations for the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade are in full steam ahead, and the organisers are looking for help from around to world to help them in making sure the event runs smoothly. Volunteers are at the heart of FISU events, and they are the force that helps make these events work as precisely as […]