DECISIONS postponed until April 30, 2007: Badminton, Rugby 7s.
EUC 2007 The EUC Beach Volleyball 2007, that was planned to be in Paralimni, CYP had to be cancelled because of the organisational problems. The championship will now be organised from July 16-19, 2007 in Valencia / ESP. The following dates and venues for EUC 2007 were also confirmed: • Football: Rome / ITA 09.07. - 15.07.2007 • Rugby 7s: Grenoble / FRA 26.09. - 27.09.2007
EUC 2008 The EUSA EC attributed the organisation of the following EUC 2008: • Volleyball: Camerino / ITA • Basketball: Novi Sad / SRB • Rowing: Zagreb / CRO • Futsal: Wroclaw / POL • Football: Kiev / UKR • Beach Volleyball Antalya / TUR • Handball: Nis / SRB • Tennis: Dublin / IRL • Table Tennis: Latina/ ITA The deadline for the candidatures of the following EUC is
EUSA CUPS The EUSA EC attributed the organisation of the following EUSA Cups 2007 and 2008: • Aesthetic Group Gymnastic: Moscow / RUS 08.03. - 11. 03.2007 • Sailing: Zadar / CRO 10. 05. -13. 05.2007 • Bridge: Brugge / BEL 04.08. - 08. 08.2007 • Taekwondo: Moscow / RUS 2008 • Biathlon: Tyumen / RUS April 2008
EUSA PATRONAGE EUSA gave a patronage over the SELL Games 2007 to be held in Kaunas / LIT in May 2007.
STUDENT COMMISSION The EUSA EC nominated the following new members of the Student Commission: • Iris Olberding, GER • Carlos Navarro Roncal, ESP • Karolina Rohan, POL • Edward Nicholas, GBR • Saša Albreht, SLO • Victoria Sokolova, RUS • Nataniel Araujo, POR • Julien Bahajezuk, FRA
EUSA NEWS EUSA OFFICE HAS MOVED The office of the European University Sports Association has moved to a new location. Since 2004, the EUSA Office has been hosted by the Slovenian University Sports Association (SUSA) at the International Center for Promotion of Enterprises. Now the Rector of the University of Ljubljana Mrs Andreja Kocijancic offered to house EUSA. The new offices are now located at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Ljubljana. The President of EUSA, Mr Alberto Gualtieri, EUSA Secretary General, Mr Matjaz Pecovnik, together with other EUSA assistants, offer their sincere thanks to the Rector of Ljubljana, Mrs Kocijancic for the kind gesture. While some contact details (such as email address, website location, and telephone number) remain the same, there are also some changes (the postal address and the fax number). To smoothen the process, we activated redirecting services but we urge you to update our contact details as soon as possible. The new contact information:
lin on the 22nd of January. On the Agenda of the meeting there was the review of a possible common activity among EUSA, FISU and IRB. This meeting has a particular importance after the very positive result of the 2nd FISU World Rugby 7’s Championship held in Rome in 2006 and in the perspective of the EUSA Rugby 7’s activity starting in France, Grenoble 2007. In the course of the meeting, several hypothesis of common work were taken into consideration, resulting in a near future collaboration among IRB, FISU and EUSA which could bring to very constructive achievements for the future of University Rugby 7’s in Europe and beyond.
IMPORTANT MEETING IN SPAIN
Alberto Gualtieri in his position of EUSA President, FISU Chairman Ct Rugby, together with EUSA delegate Bob Reeves had a meeting with Mr Mark Egan, Head of Rugby Services Department, International Rugby Board, in Dub-
Following the invitation of Mr Rafael Salinas, EUSA EC member responsible for STC, EUSA President Alberto Gualtieri and Vice President Sinisa Jasnic visited the Secretary of State and President of the Superior Sport Council, Education and Science Minister of Spain, Mr. Jaime Lissavetzky Diez at the presence of the Deputy General Director for Sport Cooperation Paralympics Sport, Higher Council for Sports, Mr Antonio Montalvo. Common intent to operate with all countries whose Sport University Associations’ traditions share their roots with Spain and whose intentions are to give an important contribution in this area emerged at the visit. EUSA President and Vice President on behalf of the Executive Committee and EUSA Members, showed their gratitude to Mr Diez for the helpfulness demonstrated in this occasion.
European Universiy Sports Association Office: Gortanova 22, SI-1000 Ljubljana
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