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NEWSLETTER02-2009

EUSA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

EUSA Executive Committee met on its second meeting this year. The meeting took place in Dolce La Hulpe Con-gress Centre in Brussels, and was hosted by the Interna-tional University Sports Federation (FISU). The Executive Committee approved progress reports of the 2009 Euro-pean Universities Championships, Symposium, Conven-tion and General Assembly. The Final Reports of the EUC Volleyball and EUSA Cup in Aesthetic Group Gymnastics were also approved. A Study Group was established to prepare the guidelines for the EUSA Sports Program. Next meeting of EUSA Executive Committee will be or-ganised from October 15-18, 2009 in Zadar (CRO).

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WORKING MEETINGEUSA representatives Mr. Alberto Gualtieri, President, Mr. Matjaž Pečovnik, Secretary General, Mr. Leonz Eder, EC Member and Mr. Thomas Loher, Legal Advisor met on a working meeting on May 13, 2009 in Zurich to discuss le-gal matters related to EUSA activities and the agenda of the next EUSA Executive Committee Meeting.

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NEWS FROM MEMBER FEDERATIONSSERBIAThe University Sports Federation of Serbia (USSS) organised on May 20, 2009 in Bel-grade its 2 Extraordinary General As-sembly. Mr. Nebojsa Jovanović was elected on the position of the USSS President.

35 years ago, on May 19, 1974 Mr. Dragoljub Bojić was elected on the position of the Secretary of the University Sports Federation of Yugoslavia and has been continuous-ly working as the University Sports Federation of Yugosla-via and University Sports Federation of Serbia Secretary / Secretary General since then. EUSA congratulates Mr. Bojić on this remarkable anniversary and at the same time thanks him for his contribution to the development of the university sports both in Serbia and Europe. We hope Mr. Bojić will stay active in the University Sports Movement for many further years.

SWITZERLANDThe directors of the Swiss Univer-sity Sports Organisations as well as the University Sports Teachers met in Zurich to the annual conference. The President of the Swiss University Sports Federation (SUSF), Andreas L. Csonka, was also present and informed about the future challenges of SUSF and the financial situation of the Federation. The Confer-ence was held at Zurich University, and some meetings took place in the Home of FIFA, a close partner of the Aca-demic Sport Association of Zurich (ASVZ). Bertrand Robert from Neuchâtel resigned as Chair of the Conference and was replaced by Georges-André Carrel, Lausanne. Three new members from different Universities were accepted, while two others retired. Besides of Technical Meetings, a lecture from Dr Marco Toigo was held to “The Science of Pumping Iron”. The next Swiss University Sports Confer-ence will be held in Geneva in June 2010.

The directors of the Swiss University Sports Organisations with their chair Bertrand Robert (front row, left), SUSF Man-aging Director Leonz Eder and Andreas L. Csonka, Presi-dent of the Swiss University Sports Federation (SUSF). Andreas L. Csonka, President of the Swiss University Sports Federation presented an overwiev over the SUSF activities.

SLOVENIASlovenian University Sports Association (SUSA) organised in cooperation with its member organisations the Slovenian Festival of Student Sport on Friday, May 29, 2009 in Maribor. The festival encom-passes national university championships in volleyball, basketball, futsal, tennis, table tennis and badminton; in combination with social activities and entertainment.At the opening ceremony, the President of SUSA, prof. dr. Otmar Kugovnik, congratulated the participants in combin-ing sport with their studies and wished them best of luck in both for their future. The Vice-Mayor of Maribor, Mr Andrej Verlic, also attended the event, wishing the participants good luck and fair matches. At the closing ceremony, the President of the Maribor University Sport Federation Mr. Marjan Pučnik congratulated the winners and awarded them medals and trophies. With the Festival of Student Sport, the majority of national university sports in Slovenia have concluded for 2009. Beside the sports featured in the Festival, SUSA also organises championships in shooting, orienteering, rowing, beach volleyball, golf, alpine skiing and snowboarding.

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PORTUGALFrom 20 to 25 of April, the cities of Por-to and Gaia hosted the final stages of the National University Championships 2009, an event organized by the Poly-technic of Porto. Over a week more than 2,000 athletes, representing 30 institutions, met to fight for 71 titles of

national university champions, spread over 15 collective and individual sports. This event was the culmination of a year of competition that began in November with the qualification tournaments, adding the best athletes of University Sport in Portugal. The opening ceremony had the presence of Mr. Secretariat of State for Youth and Sport, the Vice-President of Gaia Council, the President of Polytechnic of Porto and as special guests and godparents the Olympic athletes Nuno Fernandes and Rosa Mota, gold medalist in Seoul 88.

SWEDENAt its last EC meeting, FISU attribut-ed the 4th World University Floorball Championship 2010 to Sweden. The championship will be arranged May 13-16 in Umeå, which is an excep-tionally strong floorball city (16 teams in the three highest leagues in Sweden). The local organ-izer will be the Student Sport Club IKSU, who will host the championship in its own facilities, which constitutes the largest fitness centre in Europe. The championship has room for eight women’s end eight men’s teams. SUSF warmly invites you to participate!

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FISU NEWS

On May 23, 2009 FISU attributed in Brussels the 2015 Summer and Winter Universiade. The candidate for the 2015 Winter Universiade was Granada (ESP), while the candidates for the 2015 Summer Universiade were Edmonton (CAN), Gwangju (KOR) and Taipei City (TPE). During the day, the presentations of the bidding dossiers took place. After deliberation of the Executive Committee, FISU President George E. Killian (USA) announced the winners of the 2015 Universiades: The 27th Winter Universiade has been attributed to Granada, Spain.

‘Granada and the Sierra Nevada is a well known snow sports area’, Eduardo Valenzuela, Bid Director said. ‘Thanks to the Winter Universiade we will be able to start developing the ice sports as well. This will make the region a complete winter sport hotbed.’ The 28th Summer Universiade has been attributed to Gwangju, Korea. ‘Many civilians walked 2,015 steps every day in support for the bid while more than 150,000 citizens have volunteered to help promote the bid’, Mayor Park said. Our citizens will be ecstatic. We

FISU CONFERENCESFrom June 28-29, 2009 the FISU General Assembly will be or-ganised in Belgrade. Few days later, from July 2-5, 2009 the FISU CESU Conference will be also held in the Universiade host city. The event will be hosted by the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education of the Belgrade University. Experts in sports will discuss the role of sports in university education and the im-portance it holds in society as a platform for future changes.

will host the best Games.’ ‘I’m happy that FISU has the opportunity to go back to Spain for the Winter Universiade, FISU President Killian said. We’ve been in Spain twice before and we know they will do a good job. With the choice of a Summer Candidate it was more difficult. We had three excellent candidates who

spent a lot of time and energy in preparing their bids. Unfortunately, there can be only one winner.’

SUMMER UNIVERSIADE BELGRADE 2009All is ready for the 2009 Summer Universiade which will be

organised from July 1-12, 2009 in Belgrade (SRB). The organisers expect around 10.000 participants from all over the world,

which will compete for the medals in 15 sports. More info on the games:

www.universiade-belgrade2009.org

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EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS 15 European Universities Championships will be organ-ised this year, with Bridge, Golf and Taekwondo organ-ised for the first time. Two of the championships have already finished: EUC Volleyball in Hamburg and EUC Rugby 7’s in Bristol.

VOLLEYBALLThe 9th European Universities Volley-ball Championships successfully fin-ished on Saturday, May 23, 2009 in Hamburg (GER). 19 men and women universities teams participated on the event, organised by the ADH, the University of Hamburg and the City of Hamburg. The titles of the European Uni-versities Champions in 2009 went to the Mordovskiy State University (RUS) in men and the University of Economy, By-dgoszcz (POL) in women com-petition.

In the women final around 600 spectators enjoyed the match between the University of Economy Bydgoszcz (POL) and the University of Hamburg (GER). The Polish University Champions from Bydgoszcz were stronger and won with 3:0 (25:17, 25:19, 25:23). In the match for the bronze med-al the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism (RUS) won the University of Czestochowa (POL) with 3:1 (25:19, 24:26, 25:17, 25:17).In the men final, the Mordovskiy State University (RUS) played against the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism (RUS), the team which was defending the title of the Champions. The Mordovskiy State University won after exciting match with 3:0 (26:24, 25:20, 25:19). In the match for the bronze medal the University of Warsaw (POL) lost against the Gazi University (TUR) with 1:3 (19:25, 26:24, 17:25, 17:25).

FINAL STANDINGSWOMEN1. University of EconomyBydgoszcz (POL)2. University of Hamburg (GER)3. Russian State University ofPhysical Education,Sport and Tourism (RUS)4. Czestochowa University ofTechnology (POL)5. Kazan State Finance andEconomics Institute (RUS)6. University of Minho (POR)7. University of Tartu (EST)8. University of Mainz (GER)

EUC RUGBY 7’SThe 3rd European Universities Rugby 7’s Championships successfully finished in Bristol (GBR).15 university teams (10 men, 5 wom-en) fought from June 10-12, 2009 for the titles of the European Universities Champions. The men’s final was won very convincingly by the Russian team, Kuban State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism, beating the University of Coimbra (POR).

University of Exeter beat University of Lille in a very close women’s final.

The Home Team, University of Bristol, finished a very cred-ible third, beating University of Limoges (FRA) in a playoff.

Gifts were presented to all teams by the University of Bris-tol. The main trophies were pre-sented by Mr. Ben Ryan (Eng-land Sevens Coach), Mr. Derek Morgan (Former RFU Presi-dent), Mr. Phil Attwell (EUSA EC Member), and Mr. Bob Reeves (Director of Sport, Exercise and Health - University of Bristol)

FINAL STANDINGSMEN1. Kuban State University ofPhysical Education,Sport and Tourism (RUS)2. University of Coimbra (POR)3. Bristol University (GBR)4. University of Limoges (FRA)5. Loughborough University (GBR)6. Exeter University (GBR)7-10. University of Bordeaux (FRA)7-10. University of Nova Lisbon (POR)7-10. University UWIC (GBR)7-10. University of Berlin (GER)

WOMEN1. Exeter University (GBR)2. University of Lille (FRA)3. Brunel University (GBR)4. University of Coimbra (POR)5. Bristol University (GBR)

MEN1. Mordovskiy State University (RUS)2. Russian State University of Physical Education,Sport and Tourism (RUS)3. Gazi University (TUR)4. University of Warsaw (POL)5. University of Ljubljana (SLO)6. INSA Lyon (FRA)7. Gazi Osman Pasa University (TUR)8. University of Porto (POR)9. Technical University Dresden (GER)10. University of Regensburg (GER)11. Univesity of Erlangen - Nürnberg (GER)

More information on the event can be found on the EUC official website: http://volleyball.euc-hamburg-2009.de

You can find more information and results of the EUC 2009 on the official website: www.eucbristol.com

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BEACH - VOLLEYBALL Venue: Gdynia (POL)Date: July 29-August 02, 2009 Contact details: Tel.: +48 58 69 01 589 Fax: + 48 58 62 06 701E-mail: contact@gdynia2009.eu Website: www.gdynia2009.eu

TENNISVenue: Poznan (POL)Date: July 27-August 01, 2009 Contact details:Tel.: +48 61 852 9817Fax: +48 61 852 9817 E-mail: poznan@azs.pl

ROWINGVenue: Kruszwica (POL)Date: September 2-5, 2009 Contact details:Tel.: +48 713 202 609 Fax: +48 713 203 402 E-mail: eurc2009@gmail.com

GOLFVenue: Algarve (POR)Date: September 2-6, 2009 Contact details:Tel.: +351 289 818 606 Fax: +351 289 896 700 E-mail: desporto@aaualg.pt Website: www.eucgolf2009.com

BRIDGEVenue: Opatija (CRO)Date: October 4-10, 2009 Contact details: Tel.: +385 47 415 455/102 Fax: +385 47 415 450 E-mail: veleucilisni.savez@vuka.hr Website: http://eucbridge2009.vuka.hr

TAEKWONDOVenue: Braga (POR)Date: December 10-12, 2009

BASKETBALLThe City of Heraklion (GRE) will host the EUC Basketball 2009. The event will be organised from June 15-21, 2009. 15 men and 12 women teams announced their participation on the championship. The results can be found on the website: http://basket-eu09.edu.uoc.gr

BADMINTONVenue: Geneve (SUI)Date: June 20-24, 2009 Contact details: Tel.: +41 223 797 722 Fax: +41 223 791 109 E-mail: eubc2009@unige.ch

KARATE Venue: Cordoba (ESP)Date: July 16-19, 2009 Contact details: Tel.: +34 696 667 839 Fax: +34 914 772 437E-mail: info@eusakarate2009.com, Website: www.eusakarate2009.com

FUTSALVenue: Podgorica (MNE) Date: July 20-26, 2009 Contact details: Tel.: +382 81 265 942Mob: +382 67 253 067Fax: +382 81 265 942E-mail: futsal2009@ac.meWebsite: www.unisportmne.ac.me

FOOTBALLVenue: Wroclaw (POL)Date: July 20-26, 2009 Contact details: Tel.: +48 713 282 668 Fax +48 713 214 307E-mail: football2009@azs.wroclaw.plWebsite: www.football2009.azs.wroclaw.pl

TABLE TENNISVenue: Niš (SRB)Date: July 23-26, 2009Tel/ Fax: +381 18 523 364;+381 18 523 120E-mail: ussn@junis.ni.ac.rsWebsite: www.ussn.org.rs

CANDIDATURES EUC 2011The deadline for candidatures for the EUSA Events in 2011is September 15, 2009

HANDBALLEUC Handball 2009 will be organised in Ljubljana (SLO) from June 15-21, 2009. 12 men and 7 women university teams from 10 European countries will take place on the event. The title of the champions will be defended by the University of Ljublja-na (SLO) in men and the University of Vincent Pol, Lub-lin (POL) in women competition. More information on the event can be found on the official website: www.euchandball2009.com

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BRIDGE - NEW EUC SPORT

1st European Universities Bridge Championship will take place in Opatija (Croatia) from October 4-10, 2009 and it will be organised by the Polytechnic of Karlovac, Croatia. The Polytechnic of Karlovac is according to the number of students (2100) the smallest member of NUSA. Regardless of that fact they have taken part in the European Championship four times. It happened at the first Championship in Serbia (2001), Slovenia (2003), France (2004), and Croatia (2007). The permanent presence at sport activities has been awarded by the trust of EUSA and NUSA for the organization of the 1st European Universities Bridge Championship which will take place in the city with bridge tradition, also called the Queen of Croatian Tourism, the Old Lady or the Adriatic Pearl. Bridge is the game of knowledge and intelligence, not luck, which demands and develops tolerance and team work because the success of game depends exclusively on understanding and cooperation between partners.It developed at the end of the 19th century from the english game whist. It was played at the stylish bourgeois drawing rooms but not at colleges. It began to spread over America and Europe. After World War the second special acade-mies for bridge were being organized, first in France and then in Sweden, Israel, China, Poland and elsewhere...... In Croatia it is being played at many faculties and it has become the olympic sport. Come and become the part of the European Universities Bridge History! More information: Website: http://eucbridge2009.vuka.hrveleucilisni.savez@vuka.hr

EUSA PATRONAGEThe SELL Games 2009, organised under the patronage of EUSA, successfully finished in Riga (LAT). 1482 athletes and officials participated on the event organised from May 22-24, 2009. The competitions were organised in 11 sports. The most successful was the University of Latvia (LAT) with 30 medals (14 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze), followed by the Vilnius University (LTU) with 20 medals (10 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze) and the Lithuanian Academy of Physi-cal Education (LTU) with 29 medals (9 gold, 8 silver and 12 bronze). More results and photos can be found on the offi-cial website of the event: http://www.sellgames2009.com

EUSA SYMPOSIUM

The 6th EUSA Symposium will be organised from October 15-18, 2009 in Zadar (CRO). The Invitation and GE forms for the Sym-posium have already been sent to the EUSA Member federa-tions. The following topics will be discussed on the conference:

1. Volunteering: Scientific, Psychological and Organizers Points of View2. Values and Priorities: Equality and Fair Play3. Trends in University Sports: Funding, Marketing and Project Management

You are welcomed to visit the event. More information:University of Zadar, Zadar University Sports AssociationObala kralja Petra Krešimira IV. 2, HR-23000 ZadarContact person: Antonija Čerkez, Phone/Fax: +385 23 200 789, Mobile: +385 98 9576 345, Homepage: www.unisportzadar.com

EUSA CONVENTIONThe 2009 EUSA Convention will be organised from Novem-ber 6-8, 2009 in Ljubljana (SLO). The aim of the conven-tion is to give information and support to the organisers of the European Universities Championships in 2010. The representatives from Organising Committees of the Euro-pean Universities Cham-pionships 2010 and the EUSA Representatives will discuss the terms and conditions as well as the examples for best prac-tice of organisation of the European Universities Championships.

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JUNE-DECEMBER 2009

EUSA-Event CalendarEUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPSHANDBALL Ljubljana (SLO) 15.06.-21.06.

BASKETBALL Heraklion (GRE) 15.06.-21.06.

BADMINTON Geneve (SUI) 20.06.-24.06.

KARATE Cordoba (ESP) 16.07.-19.07.

FUTSAL Podgorica (MNE) 20.07.-26.07.

FOOTBALL Wroclaw (POL) 20.07.-26.07.

TABLE TENNIS Niš (SRB) 22.07.-25.07.

TENNIS Poznan (POL) 27.07.-01.08.

BEACH-VOLLEYBALL Gdynia (POL) 29.07.-02.08.

ROWING Kruszwica (POL) 02.09.-05.09.

GOLF Algarve (POR) 02.09.-06.09.

BRIDGE Opatija (CRO) 04.10.-10.10.

TAEKWONDO Braga (POR) 10.12.-12.12.

CONFERENCESEUSA SYMPOSIUM Zadar (CRO) 15.10.-18.10.

EUSA CONVENTION Ljubljana (SLO) 06.11.-08.11.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY Vienna (AUT) 04.12.-06.12.

FISU EVENTSGENERAL ASSEMBLY Belgrade (SRB) 28.06.-29.06.

SUMMER UNIVERSIADE Belgrade (SRB) 01.07.-12.07.

FISU CESU CONFERENCE Belgrade (SRB) 02.07.-05.07.

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