FISU President Oleg Matytsin and Olympic champion Alexey Yagudin open FISU Volunteer Leaders Academy in Kazan

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Kazan, 3 July 2017: More than 100 volunteers from 91 countries gathered today

as FISU President Oleg Matytsin opened the first FISU Volunteer Leaders

Academy, joined by Olympic champion figure skater Alexey Yagudin and leader

of the Republic of Tatarstan, President Rustam Minnikhanov.

President Matytsin praised the role of volunteers in sport and hoped that

everyone in attendance would benefit from the inaugural event.

"Russia continues to demonstrate its openness and commitment to the ideals of

Olympism. I am confident that the participants here will feel this atmosphere and

take a real vision of this back to their countries," President Matytsin said.

Yagudin, a four-time world champion who won gold at the 2002 Olympic Winter

Games in Salt Lake City, said that volunteers were critical in ensuring major

events ran smoothly.

"Without volunteers, sport in the world would not be so successful," Yagudin

said. "I am happy to see a big delegation of Russians here, some of whom will go

to Taipei for the 2017 Summer Universiade later this year.

"Travels like that will be so useful for future leaders of the volunteer sector. It is

an invaluable experience, which they can then utilise when we host the 2019

Universiade in Russia."

The main goals of the forum are to create opportunities for studying and sharing

best practice related to volunteer projects and programs for major international

events, as well as securing an effective communication platform for the

development of student volunteer communities. Experts are at the forum

representing FISU, WADA, IOC and UNESCO, as well as participants from

organising committees for future international sporting events.

"I want to say thank you to more than 20 thousand volunteers; participants of

Summer Universiade in 2013, the FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2015

and the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2017," President Minnikhanov said.

"Many of these volunteers will also help us in organizing FIFA World Cup in 2018

as well as the WorldSkills competition in 2019. Without such enterprising and

creative young people, it is probably impossible to hold major international

events.

"But in order to organise volunteer activities we need some educational

programs. In my opinion, sport volunteering in Russia was born in Kazan and we

are so happy that the first FISU Volunteer Leaders Academy is here in Kazan."

The FISU Volunteer Leaders Academy-2017 international forum will take place

in Kazan, hosted by the Volga State Academy of Sport and Tourism until July 8.

For more information:

Contact: Anna Manuelian

Email: anna@jtassocs.com

Telephone: +41 (0) 78 630 6127

The International University Sports Federation – FISU

Founded in 1949, FISU stands for Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire

(International University Sports Federation). FISU was formed within university

institutions in order to promote sports values and encourage sports practice in

harmony with and complementary to the university spirit. Promoting sports

values means encouraging friendship, fraternity, fair-play, perseverance, integrity

and cooperation amongst students, who one day may have responsibilities and

even key positions in politics, the economy, culture and industry.

Open to student-athletes aged between 17 and 25 (for events in 2016 and 2017

the upper age is still 28), FISU’s events consist of Summer and Winter

Universiades and the World University Championships. Universiades are

multisport events staged in odd-numbered years, while the World University

Championships are single-sport events, staged in even-numbered years. Besides

its sporting events, FISU stages educational events, such as the FISU Forum on

University Sport, the FISU World Conference on Development through Sport, the

FISU World Conference on Innovation - Education - Sport, the FISU Sport

Education Summit and the FISU Seminars.

With FISU’s motto being "Excellence in Mind and Body", all events include

educational and cultural aspects, bringing together sport and academia from all

over the world to celebrate in a true spirit of friendship and sportsmanship. FISU

cooperates in developing its events and programmes with all major international

sports and educational organisations. As major outcomes of those collaborations,

in 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

(UNESCO) proclaimed the International Day of University Sport to be celebrated

on 20 September, and the Anti-Doping Textbook and teaching materials were

developed with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

FISU is composed of 170 Member Associations (National University Sports

Federations). The FISU General Assembly elects the members of the FISU

Executive Committee, its board of directors. Fourteen permanent committees

advise the Executive Committee in their specialised areas. For the daily

administration of FISU, the FISU Executive Committee relies on the Secretary

General, who is assisted by the FISU staff. FISU’s headquarters are in Lausanne,

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