EUSA Magazine 2019-20

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SPORTS ASSOCIATION YEAR MAGAZINE 2019-20^130

8. PARTNERS AND NETWORK

EUROPEAN JUDO UNION

EUSA expanded its growing list of continental partners by

signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the European

Judo Union (EJU) on June 23, 2019, strengthening general

cooperation and partnership between the two organisations.

EUSA, represented by its

President Mr Adam Roczek and

Secretary General Mr Matjaz

Pecovnik, and European Judo

Union (EJU), represented

by its President Mr Sergey

Soloveychik and Vice-President

Mr Michal Vachun, signed the

Memorandum in Minsk, Belarus.

Judo has been part of the

EUSA sports programme

since 2011, when the first

European Universities Judo

Championship was held in

the Bosnia and Herzegovina

capital Sarajevo. Four editions

of European Universities Judo

Championships have been

organised in total, while Judo

also appeared in the previous

two editions of the European

Universities Games, in Zagreb-

Rijeka 2016 and Coimbra 2018.

In 2019, Judo was included as

one of the four different sports

on the programme at the first

European Universities Combat

Championships in Zagreb,

Croatia, while it will also feature

as one of the 20 sporting

disciplines at the fifth edition

of the European Universities

Games in Belgrade, Serbia.

Thereafter, Judo will again

be included as the one of

the four sports at the 2021

European Universities Combat

Championships, taking place

once more in the Croatia capital,

Zagreb.

The aim of the signed

Memorandum of Understanding

is for EUSA and EJU to work

together in activities and

projects promoting Judo as

a university sport in Europe,

to promote and contribute

to the development of judo

competitions among students

while also exchanging

information and searching for

new opportunities arising from

the newly-signed cooperation.

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