MAGGLINGEN – The sport teachers and trainers of the Swiss University Sport Organisations were invited to the Federal Institute of Sports in Magglingen for their annual three days conference. Marcel Meier, Head of Sports at Bern University of Applied Sciences offered a wide variety of themes in continuing education such as diagnostics in sport performance, training in high altitude and adaption, high level sport and studies, riding the third wave, video feedback, regeneration in sport, sport nutrition and many others. The 40 participants from all the Swiss Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences had also the possibility to practise sports, e.g. archery, beach volleyball, tennis, football, golf and canoeing on the lake of Biel.
Walter Mengisen, Rector at the Federal Institute of Sports, University of Applied Sciences Magglingen, informed the participants of the conference in a plenary session about the actual situation in “Sport Switzerland”, the initiatives related to sport projects in the Swiss Parliament and the plans for development of sport in the country in the different fields in the near future.
(F.l.t.r.) Marcel Meier (Magglingen), Reto Zimmermann (Bern), Patrick Udvardi (Luzern), Andreas Csonka (SUSF)
Andreas Csonka, President of the Swiss University Sports Federation (SUSF) and Reto Zimmermann, President of the Swiss Universities Sports Directors Conference gave an overview on the projects in the Swiss University Sport, among them the participation at the EUSA and FISU events, the organisation of such events in Switzerland, e.g. the 2015 EUC Table Tennis in Geneva and the 2015 EUC Golf in St. Gallen, the 2016 WUC Triathlon in Nyon and the possible candidature of Lucerne-Central Switzerland for the 2021 Winter Universiade. Reto Zimmermann explained the work in progress for a new strategy of Swiss University Sports. Additionally, the participants were informed about the upcoming Summer Universiade in Gwangju, Korea by Renato Maggi, Head of Delegation, the ongoing project ‘High Level Sport and Studies’, which is progressing well under the leadership of Marilen Matter Graf, in close cooperation with Swiss Olympics and about ENAS by Thomas Mörgeli. Enough time was also given to social activities and the possibility of exchange of experiences and ideas among the University Sports Teachers of all the members of the Swiss University Sport Federation (SUSF).
SUSF Managing Director & FISU VP Leonz Eder (l) with Rector Walter Mengisen (Magglingen)
The term of the presidency of Reto Zimmermann in the Director’s Conference came to an end. The new President is Patrick Udvardi, Lucerne, the new Vice-President Pierre Pfefferlé, Lausanne. The 2016 Swiss University Sports Days will be held at Bern University from 6 to 8 June.
(Source: SUSF)