Summer Games

  Between June 24th and the opening of the Universiade on July 1st, some 13,000 athletes, international sport organizations officials and media representatives will come to Belgrade. Accommodation for all of them is ready in the Universiade Village and nine Belgrade hotels. The accommodation of the Universiade Belgrade 2009 participants and guests has been the […]

    Serbian Minister of Youth and Sport, Snezana Samardzic-Markovic, together with ambassadors and consuls from 31 countries, whose athletes will compete at the Universiade Belgrade 2009 visited the Universiade Village. This Athletes’ Village, a modern, new residential block of buildings (14 buildings with 1,858 apartments) in New Belgrade will become the temporary home to […]

In the City Assembly of Belgrade, at the annual prize awarding ceremony of the Serbian Public Relations Society, the Universiade PR sector was awarded the prestigious award for public relations, for the project and campaign for rallying volunteers. The 12-member panel of expert judges awarded the prize in category ‘Public and Non-Profit Sector’ to the […]

   There are only 42 days left until the 25thSummer Universiade kicks off. Company Universiade Belgrade 2009 team: PR sector director Tamara Kostro, volunteer sector director Damir Stajner, deputy CEO for volunteers Natasa Jankovic and Easy Travel Card coordinator Danijela Sunjarevic announced at today’s press conference that final preparations are underway for this year’s biggest […]

  May 16th, distinguished guests and media representatives sampled the menus that will be prepared for athletes in the Belgrade Universiade Village. The biggest restaurant in the Balkans, with a seating capacity of over 1,500, will be serving 45,000 meals from four cuisines (national, vegetarian, halal and oriental) every day during the Games. The meals […]

At the volleyball tournaments at the 2009 Universiade in Belgrade, FISU, with the assistance of the FIVB (International Volleyball Federation), will test and evaluate a new volleyball rule, currently on approval for future volleyball tournaments. Sandy Steel, the president of the FIVB Rules Commission, has proposed a new rule “four players in one position” that […]

  The newly built Athletes’ Village for the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade was turned into a green oasis in the past few days as gardeners were hard at work. Landscape architects have carefully chosen the trees, plants and decorative flowers so as to be in full bloom in time for the Universiade. In the […]

  On Tuesday, May 12th, 2009, the Director of the Summer Universiade, Marc VANDENPLAS, as well as the Director of Educational and Development Services, Kolë GJELOSHAJ together with the coordinator of Medal Awarding Ceremonies, Nicole MANGELSCHOTS, had a second day of meetings with the Organizing Committee of the Universiade in Belgrade. In the morning, Marc […]