On February 13th, The Organizing Committee of the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia, is present at the Vancouver Olympic Games and staged a ‘Kazan Day’ at the Russia House, the Headquarters of Sochi, the next host of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014. Members of the Olympic Committee of Russia, Russian and foreign […]
On February 9th, 2010 Mr. Ceslovas Garbaliauskas, President of the Lithuanian Students’ Sports Association (LSSA) met with Mr. Tong Mingtao, Ambassador Extraordinary a Mr. Tong Mingtao & Mr. C. Garbaliauskas nd Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Lithuania. LSSA has an old friendship with the Embassy of the People’s Republic […]
The delegation of Erzurum with left General Coordinator Bekir Korkmaz The Organizing Committee of the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey has sent a delegation to promote the future Universiade host city at the biggest sports fair in Europe, the ISPO Fair in Munich, Germany. The Erzurum delegation was visited by a VIP guest […]
55 universities from 12 countries have registered for the XXVI SELL Student Games which will take place in Tartu, Estonia from May 21st to 23rd, 2010. Very many of those are from the countries which originally established the Games, i.e. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland, but also numerous universities from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and […]
Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced the findings of its data collection on athletic scholarships provided by Canadian universities during the course of the 2008-09 academic year. The data reveals that in ‘08-09 Canadian universities together provided $9,997,758 in athletic scholarship money to CIS student-athletes. “A common and outdated misconception is that athletic scholarships are only available […]
25th Winter Universiade: One Year to go Bekir Korkmaz, General Coordinator of Erzurum 2011 WU, stated that with one year to go – the games which will be held between January 27th and February 6th, 2011 – the organization is on track. ‘Seventy percent of the facilities has been completed.We dont have any problems […]
On January 22nd, the Opening Ceremony of the National University Games of Thailand was held in Thammasat University. The Games are at their 37th edition and will last from Jannuary 22nd to 30th. They are gathering 11,000 student-athletes representing 111 Universities who will compete in 22 sports. The University that welcomed the Athletes’ Village […]
FISU has held its 1st Winter Universiade Seminar in Erzurum from January 19th to 21st, 2010. The speakers for FISU were the CTI Chair, Roger Roth; the Director of Winter Universiade, Milan Augustin; the Director of the World University Championships, Laurent Briel and the Director of the Summer Universiade, Marc Vandenplas. The chair […]
