2012
CONVENTION
Portoroz in Slovenia hosted the 2012 Convention between November 16 and
18, with focus given to the 2013 European Universities Championships.
The convention started with a meet-
ing of the newly-appointed Technical
Commission, who were congratulated on
their appointments and thanked for their
dedication to university sport.
Delegates were first acquainted with the
structure of the organisation, its activities
and history, before a step-by-step regis-
tration procedure for the championships
and explanations of the use of the EUSA
registration and accreditation system, to
be used by all EUSA event organisers, was
given.
EUSA Technical Delegates and Commis-
sion members were joined the following
day by the Medical Commission members,
organisers of the European Universities
Games 2012 and 2014 and representa-
tives of the Organising committees of the
17 European Universities Championships,
taking place the following year.The rules and regulations of the champi-
onships were then explained, before medi-
cal, hygiene and catering aspects were
discussed along with the EUSA Volunteer
Programme.A short overview of the plans of the 2014
European Universities Games was given by
the organisers of the forthcoming Games
before a case study of best practice from
the previous season of the European Uni-
versities Championships was presented.Championship organisers then met with
the EUSA Technical Delegates for their
respective sports, and went through their
specific progress reports and the plans for
their events.