Gwangju Legacy Project

LAUSANNE – A meeting in the FISU headquarters in Lausanne was held this Saturday, February 2nd in regard to the Legacy Project initiated by the Organising Committee of the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, with the coordination of FISU and the WADA.

The meeting was directed by Stefan BERGH, FISU CDSU Chair and Alison ODELL, Vice-Chair of CDSU and Chair of EduC. The other stakeholders from FISU were Roland QUESTEL, Medical Committee delegate and Nicole MANGELSCHOTS, Executive Assistant to Director of Development & Special Projects

Jenifer SCLATER, Manager of Education, represented WADA and Myoungsun LEE, Director of the Planning Division and Debra HAN represented the Organising Committee of the 2015 Summer Universiade.

This Legacy Programme includes the WADA project, the Young Reporters’ Programme and the project to unite the North and South Korean teams at the Universiade and potentially a mentoring programme.

The WADA project will initially be planned until 2015 with the task of developing anti-doping materials including an e-textbook raising the social awareness on doping to be used in the universities. 

A bid will soon be launched to invite universities to pilot this project. The production of this e-book should be ready for mid 2013. A next meeting to finalize this project is expected in early May in Brussels.

The Young Reporters’ Programme may include the attendance of AIPS at the Universiade 2015 and the selection of young journalists to cover the event. This programme will be coordinated by the FISU Media Committee and CDSU.

(Source: Nicole Mangelschots, Executive Assistant to Director Development & Special projects)