SHENZHEN – From May 9th to 13th, FISU Summer Universiade Director, Mr. Marc Vandenplas, together with the Assistant to the Universiade, Ms. Jing Zhao and the IT&C Adviser, Ms. Mirjana Cvijanovic are staying in Shenzhen for the whole week to discuss the IT&C issues with the Shenzhen Organizing Committee for the upcoming Summer Universiade. […]
COSTA RICA – The Opening Ceremony of JUNCOS, the Costarican University Games, took place last Friday, May 6th. More than 300 artists on stage performed a show for an estimated 1,500 people attending the colorful ceremony. The rain did not stop the realization of a show that sought to unify and promote the college […]
COSTA RICA – After a year of preparation and thanks to the efforts of more than 300 people involved in the organization of the University Sports Games (JUNCOS), the Organizing Committee of JUNCOS have refined the last details to deliver this important event. With a total investment of two hundred million colones in the development […]
BEIJING – Today, May 4th, the torch relay for the 26th Summer Universiade kicked-off at Peking University, marking the 100-day countdown to the opening of FISU’s main event. At the presence of hundreds of students and teaching staff, Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang lit the main torch from a cauldron at a ceremony held in […]
KAZAN – The first 2011 session of the Kazan 2013 Supervisory Board proceeded via videoconference. Among Moscow representatives there were State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of Russia Natalya Parshikova, Executive Director of the OCR Marat Bariev, Russian Student Sports Union Oleg Matytsin and Director General of the Kazan […]
BRUSSELS – Five candidate cities have come forward to host the 2017 Universiades, i.e. two for the Winter Universiade and three for the Summer Universiade. When the deadline for submission of a candidature to host the 2017 Universiades was reached on May 2nd, five cities have come forward to bring FISU’s flagship events to their […]
KAZAN – On April 27th, the Universiade Village was visited by Deputy Chief State Inspector of the Russian Federation, EMERCOM’s Head of Supervisory Department, Mayor General of Internal Service Yury Deshevykh and Minister for Emergency and Civil Defense of the Republic of Tatarstan Rafis Khabibullin. Yury Deshevykh inspected the facilities’ compliance with fire protection […]
KAZAN – Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov paid a visit to the Kazan Universiade Village. During his tour around the unique student campus he was accompanied by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, First Deputy Minister of Youth, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan Azat Sharapov and also Kazan Federal University Rector Ilshat Gafurov. […]
