The inaugural 2019 FISU University World Cup officially kicked off in Jiniang, China in front of an excited crowd and numerous high-profile guests at the event’s lively Opening Ceremony.

Within the frame of the parliamentary part of the 114th general assembly of the German University Sports Federation (ADH) held in Hamburg on Novemer 17-18, representatives of the higher education member institutions present have given the official starting signal for an application for the Summer Universiade 2025 in the Rhine Ruhr region.

The 2019 FISU Oceania General Assembly was held on November 17 in Turin, Italy. FISU Oceania delegates were in Turin for the FISU General Assembly and like FISU, Oceania’s General Assembly included voting elections for the next mandate period 2020-2023.

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) held its 36th General Assembly in Turin, Italy, as a new Executive Committee was elected amid celebrations of the association’s 70th anniversary.

Today marks the 80th Anniversary of the International Students’ Day, observed annually on November 17. The initiators - Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) and the European Students’ Union (ESU) this year focus on support the recognition process of the #17NOV as the official International Day.

Today, November 13, 2019 marks 20 years since the founding of the European University Sports Association (EUSA), which has grown immensely over its two decades of existence.

Following the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport in Katowice, Poland, a new World Anti-Doping Code was approved, with the Executive Committee approving the International Standards which will come into effect on 1 January 2021.