Croatian Academic Sports Federation (CASF) and the Organising Committee of the European Universities Games Zagreb-Rijeka 2016 (EUG2016) hosted the Executive Committee meeting of the European University Sports Association (EUSA) on June 3 and 4 in Rijeka, Croatia.

This was the first meeting of the new EUSA Executive Committee Members, after their election this April.

EUSA President Mr Adam Roczek started the meeting by congratulating once again the members for their election and thanked Mr Haris Pavletic, EUSA Vice-President and Vice-President of CASF, for hosting the meeting.



The members then got a more detailed introduction to EUSA, its activities and the procedures of operation by Mr Matjaz Pecovnik, EUSA Secretary General and other members of staff.

The meeting focused on the European Universities Games; the upcoming edition will be held this July in Zagreb and Rijeka, and the final preparation of the event. Also the future EUSA Games were discussed - 2018 in Coimbra, POR and 2020 in Belgrade, SRB.



The members were given an update of the European Universities Championships 2017 and also confirmed the bidding procedure of the 2019 events, which will be published soon. New event websites and EUSA result management system have been confirmed, and will be introduced for the 2017 events already.

Educational activities and projects supported by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and those supported by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme have been introduced and progress reports given.



The new EUSA Executive Committee also confirmed the structure of EUSA Commissions 2016-2020; call for nominations will be launched soon.

The meeting also included visit to some of the sports and accommodation venues which will be used for the European Universities Games 2016; the event will open less than 40 days. For more information about the event, please see www.eug2016.com.