Winter Games

From Left to right: Ignacio Valenzuela, Marketing Director, Ignacio Pipo, CEO, Kairis Ulp, chair of the Universiade Supervision Committee, Leonz Eder, FISU Vice-President and Milan Augustin, Winter Universiade Director GRANADA – The first day of the Heads of Delegation (HOD) meeting was held on Tuesday 23 September at Hotel Nazaries in the center of the […]

  Visiting the Congress Centre GRANADA – The meeting of the heads of delegation continued today 24 September with a hectic sightseeing programme of sports venues and hotels. The delegation representatives began the day with an inspection of the ice rink (Fuentenueva Pavilion, still under construction) that will host the curling competitions. They found that […]

    LAUSANNE – The Heads of Delegation Meeting for the 27th Winter Universiade will take place at the end of September, i.e. from 23 to 25 September in Granada, Spain and from 27 to 28 September in Strbske Pleso/Osrblie, Slovakia (Nordic skiing and biathlon). Please note that registration for the 2015 Winter Universiade will […]

      MEZZOCORONA/TRENTINO – It was the biggest sporting event ever hosted in Trentino and the most important event scheduled in Italy until at least 2020, but it was also a major opportunity to promote the image of this segment of the Alps, hemmed in between Lake Garda and the Dolomites, as well as […]

   Paolo Bouquet flanked by the FISU President and IFPC President BRUSSELS/TRENTINO – On 11 July, 2014 Paolo Bouquet, professor of the University of Trento and Vice-President of the Organizing Committee of the 26th Winter Universiade Trentino 2013, was invited as an external expert to deliver a speech on “Sport as a Driver of Innovation […]

    Maxim Urazov, the new appointed General Director for the 2019 WU KRASNOYARSK – Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko signed a decree appointing Maxim Urazov as a General Director of the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, said “Kraysport.” From 2005 until the present Urazov was managing youth policy in the city administration. The decree […]

    BRATISLAVA – The Slovak Republic officially became the co-host of 2015 Winter Universiade, today, 25 June,  when the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic Dušan Čaplovič signed a contract with FISU for the organization of the 27th Winter Universiade 2015 Granada – Štrbské-Pleso – Osrblie. The ceremony was […]