ALMATY – On Wednesday 30 December, Bauyrzhan Baibek, Mayor of Almaty has attended the presentation of the small arena of the ‘Ice Palace’, a twin ice sheet facility and the major venue for the 2017 Winter Universiade. The Mayor of the city visited the small arena and basin area, and has got acquainted […]
LAUSANNE – A delegation from Lucerne, candidate city for hosting the 2021 Winter Universiade, travelled to Lausanne for a working meeting with the FISU Winter Universiade Department. Urs Hunkeler, Chairman of the bidding committee, Beat Hensler, Secretary General of the Central Switzerland’s Governments Conference, Regula Schweizer, Head of Media and Communication and Leonz Eder, […]
ALMATY – A FISU delegation chaired by the recently elected President Oleg Matytsin has visited Kazakhstan to inspect the process of preparations for the 28th Winter Universiade 2017. During the visit, the delegation met with the head of the Organizing Committee of the Winter Universiade 2017, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Dariga Nazarbayeva […]
KRASNOYARSK – On 29 October, the ground-breaking ceremony of the Platinum Arena sports complex, which is to be built for the 29th Winter Universiade Krasnoyarsk 2019 took place on the Krasnoyarsk’s right bank. An ice hockey rink will be built on the right bank, near the fourth bridge over the Yenisey. The first […]
ALMATY – Delegates from the FISU International Technical Committee (CTI) are currently in Almaty for a 2nd Inspection Visit which started on 12 October. The aim of the CTI is to define the readiness of the sports venues for the 28th Winter Universiade in 2017. Participants of this 2nd CTI Meeting are Winter […]
ULAANBAATAR – A ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ (MoU) was signed on 16 October, 2014, between the city Ulaanbaatar, represented by Mr. Bat-Uul E., the City Mayor; Mr. Bayasgalan D., the President of NUSF Mongolia with FISU, represented by Mr. Claude-Louis Gallien, FISU President and Mr. Eric Saintrond, FISU Secretary General/CEO, where the City of […]
FISU SG/CEO with the Mayor & NUSF President ALMATY – This weekend the FISU Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond traveled to Almaty to meet the new Mayor, Baurzhan Baibek, who took office in August. The former mayor, Akhtemzhan Yessimov, having been appointed to lead the organization of EXPO 2017 in Astana. It was important to meet […]
LUCERNE – Guido Graf, Government Councillor of the Canton of Lucerne, opened the official kick-off meeting of the 2021 WU Bidding Committee of Lucerne-Central Switzerland on 21 August in Lucerne. He underlined the importance of a potential Winter Universiade for the City and the Canton of Lucerne, but also for the other Cantons […]
