2012
CONFERENCE
Ahead of the annual General Assembly, the 2012 EUSA Conference took place in
Maribor, Slovenia under the theme “Embracing University Sport” which focused
on different aspects of university sport and the necessity to acknowledge matters
beyond sport itself, thus embracing the whole spectrum of the student sport sphere.
The Conference included various panel
discussions, the first of which involved
European Policies on Sport, followed by a
panel devoted to the European Universi-
ties Games, where the organisers of both
the first edition in Cordoba, Spain and the
second edition in Rotterdam, the Nether-
lands, were able to present.
A panel regarding the European Anti-Dop-
ing Initiative (EADIn) was then presented,
as an overall review of the activities taking
place in the project within the scope of
EUSA was explained.The final panel of the Conference revolved
around Women in Sport as well as the
“We are the World” project which aimed to
bridge the gap between different nationali-
ties, races and religions via leisure sport
and cultural activities. EUSA’s participa-
tion numbers according to gender were
also discussed, before an overview of
EUSA’s activities in the field of genderequality and active involvement of women
in sport was presented.The conference concluded with the
official signing of the Brighton Declara-
tion on Women and Sport, a declaration
which provides principles to guide action
intended to increase the involvement of
women in sport at all levels and in all
functions and roles.