EUSA Year Magazine 2024-2025

FAIR PLAY

With the European Fair Play Movement (EFPM) as our

partner, EUSA strongly promotes the spirit of fair play at all

our events, having its values deeply embedded in EUSA,

while we are emphasising the importance of sportsmanship

and the positive approach to sport across our 20+ years of

existence.

Fair play is present in sports as
the unwritten rule, a moral value
that represents the real essence
of sport. It represents that
opponents must be appreciated
and in nowadays practising of
sports, more than ever, it is vitally
important to defend the values
intrinsic to sport: respect for
oneself and others, solidarity,
and fair play.

European University Sports
Association (EUSA) is an official
partner of the European Fair
Play Movement (EFPM), who is
a member of the International
Fair Play Committee (IFPC).
The values of fair play, equality,

ethics, and clean sport without

doping and without match-fixing

are at the core of EUSA sport and

other events.

The fair play initiative was

strongly encouraged at the

European Universities Games

in Debrecen and Miskolc this

year, and apart from having

positive messages involving fair

play oaths red by athletes and

referees at all sports events,

multiple fair play awards were

given across the present

competitions.

At this year’s European

Universities Games, the Fair

Play award was presented for

technical aspects of the games

at various medal ceremonies

in basketball, football, futsal,

handball, volleyball, beach

handball and 3x3 basketball.

Regardless of the sport, the

officials and athletes may

nominate an individual or tam for

the special Enno Harms award,

which is given annually by EUSA

for special fair play gestures and

attitude.

In 2024, the International Fair

Play Committee with great pride,

commemorated and honoured

with a celebration, its 60th

anniversary during the Paris

2024 Olympic & Paralympic

Games, in the company of

exemplary athletes gathered from

all over the world.

The undisputed mission of our

entity, in and outside of the

Olympic Movement, is to foster,

promote and protect the core

value of sport that is equal, clean,

and safe sport in general, and

fair play in particular in line with

the Olympic Primary Principle of

participating in sport as a human

right for both men and women. At

the celebration, great emphasis

was given on the duty to protect

the foundation of sport: fair play,

fair competition and fair playing

field across all sports and for

the benefit of all participants of

global sport and the Olympic

Movement.

EUSA has always awarded

exemplary behaviour on the

sports field and will continue with

the same practice and vision, that

through sport and values like fair

play, following the respect for

both written and unwritten rules,

equality, integrity, solidarity,

tolerance, care, and joy, we can

contribute to building a peaceful

society and ultimately a better

future.

The fair play initiative will

also be strongly encouraged

at all competitions during

the European Universities

Championships 2025.

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SPORTS ASSOCIATION YEAR MAGAZINE 2024-2025^97