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WELCOME ADDRESS
Dear Friends
With great pleasure, I welcome you to the
pages of our annual magazine to share the best
memories of the past year and present our
upcoming activities.
The year 2023, first after the pandemic when
worldwide university sport came back to its
routine, was full of important events for the EUSA
community. Allow me to draw your attention to
just a few of them. Detailed overview you will find
on the next pages of the magazine.
European Universities Championships reached
this year a record number of 5570 participants.
The Championships season started in Tirana,
where the Football Championship, the first ever
EUC in the history of delivered by the Albanian
NUSA, was successfully organized. Ended in
December, in Italian Val di Zoldo where the first
EUSA Winter Championships, comprising alpine
skiing, snowboarding, and snow volleyball events,
took part. I’m proud that, thanks to our common
work, Ukrainian student – athletes got the chance
to compete at the EUC stages and make friends
despite the ongoing war.
EUSA General Assembly and Gala were hosted
in October by the Turkish University Sport
Association in Kusadasi. EUSA Family and our
guests were very warmly welcomed by TUSF,
where we enjoyed the beauty of the Aegean Sea
coast. During the working sessions, delegates
focused on discussing overactive memberships
and took several decisions, which we hope will
help increase the activities of our members in the
frame of the events organized under the EUSA
umbrella. The General Assembly unanimously
approved the motion of the Executive Committee
to temporarily suspend the Russian Federation
NUSA as a consequence of the war against
Ukraine. The delegates took a resolution calling
on the political world to take immediate and
efficient action to cease all the terrorist and
military action against civilians.
The FISU General Assembly was held in
November in Geneve and elected its Executive
Committee for the 2023-2027 period. Leonz
Eder former EUSA Vice-President and current
Honorary Member was elected unanimously. Mr
President, dear Leonz, European University Sport
Community is ready to support your plans and
to contribute to the development of the World
University Sport.
The attribution process of awarding the European
Universities Games was launched, where three
applications have been delivered to our office.
In April, EUSA EC will announce which city will
become the European University Sport Capital in
2028.My sincere appreciation goes to Member
Federations, Organising Committees and Host
Federations of the EUSA meetings. To universities,
volunteers, partners, colleagues from the Executive
Committee, Commissions and Working Groups, as
well as to EUSA Staff, for their professionalism,
dedication, and all year-round support. To FISU
which, as every year, allocates its resources to the
Continental Organizations projects.Thanks to the partnerships and our previous
experiences, EUSA with its Institute were again
granted by the European Commission with the
support of projects and initiatives through several
EU funding tools. With continuous work on several
projects, new projects were confirmed. European
University Sports Association (EUSA) with its
EUSA Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was granted
funding for the cooperation partnership project
“Discovering university sport and supporting dual
career (DiscoverU)” project, enhancing sport and
physical activity opportunities for students in
higher education and increasing their participation
in these activities; and the small partnership
“Youth Individual Sports Mindset (YouMind)”,
focusing on the mental health of young athletes.With these results, we are very proud and
honoured by the acknowledgement of our work
and trust put in us on a European level, as well as
by our valuable partners and friends, for keeping
us spots in the consortiums of their project ideas.I invite you to keep contributing to the world of
university sport on every level and to keep in
touch with us over the year.I especially invite you to take part in the European
Universities Games 2024 in Debrecen – Miskolc
(Hungary) and in many projects’ activities.The growth of EUSA is the reflection of our joint
work and depends on each and every one of us.I am looking forward to enjoying university sport
together with you in 2024!Adam Roczek,
EUSA President