LAUSANNE — Since 2016, FISU has partnered with universities as a way to live its motto “Today’s Stars, Tomorrow’s Leaders” by offering opportunities to students from its member associations.
Recently, FISU had published a call for applications for the Dream Together Master programme hosted by the Seoul National University (KOR) and for the Master of Sport Administration of the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) based in Sochi, Russia.
For the Dream Together Master programme, eight candidates representing China, Ghana, Kosovo, Malawi, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Swaziland and Zimbabwe were nominated and recommended by FISU to SNU. The final selection was made by the academic board of the University and it is finally Daulina Osmani (KOS) and Yuhan Chen (CHN) who have been selected to be part of the Dream Together Master programme and receive a full scholarship for the programme.
The two successful candidates will now study in the programme from September 2018 to June 2020 receiving lectures on sport management, but also communication and marketing, sport law or sport finance and economics. In addition, they will share two years within an international programme with their fellow classmates and follow the path set by the R. Kulakhmetova (KAZ) and T. Ruzvidozo (ZIM) selected through the same process in 2016 and John Monyo (GHA) in 2017.
University sports and educational events that FISU puts on are all part of bringing together people and best practices to advance society
The candidates to the RIOU scholarship were evaluated by FISU’s Education Committee. After a European candidate in 2016 (Ivo Pereira Carvalhosa – POR) and an American candidate in 2017 (Ilsida Tomere – SUR) it is the Asian continent that will be represented in 2018 with Mohammad Baghdadi (LIB). Mohammad, who represented his country in both the 2015 and 2017 Summer Universiades in swimming will attend the classes of the RIOU and earn knowledge which will allow him to be part of the University Sports Movement in Lebanon as an administrator and contribute to developing future opportunities for the local student athletes.
“We are grateful for the fact that FISU has strong and reliable partners at its side – like the RIOU and the SNU – to accompany young people on their way to leadership positions in sport,“ Dr. Verena Burk, chairwoman of the FISU Education Committee and FISU Senior Executive Committee member said while expressing the hope that more universities would offer such partnership in the future. “FISU is committed to offering opportunities and to encourage investments in education as the investment in our future.”
