EUSA Year in Review

The year 2011 has been very successful for the European University Sports Association in many ways, but perhaps most important and visible in terms of EUSA sporting events and participation at the European Universities Championships.

Sixteen editions of European Universities Championships took place this year across Europe, with over 3600 students participating at EUSA sports events, representing over 470 universities from 37 European countries, breaking the current participation numbers.

EUSA is proud that our events do not just emphasise quantity, but also quality. In this respect we organise conventions for our event organisers, to provide guidelines and tools for successful events; next one being carried out in January 2012.

However, the most exciting things don’t lie in the past but in the future, both near and far. Nearest to us is the staging of the 1st ever European Universities Games that will be held in the Spanish city of Cordoba between July 9 and 24, 2012. The hard working organising committee, with His Majesty, the King Juan Carlos I as the honorary president, is expecting over 2500 participants, competing in 10 different sports. Thus, it is foreseen to be one of the largest sports events to be held in Europe in 2012 along with the London Olympic Games and the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck.