IFIUS
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IFIUS is a democratic non profit organisation whose main objective is to organise the yearly World Interuniversity Games
World Interuniversity Games
The World Interuniversity Games is an international sport event, organised each year in October by IFIUS .- IFIUS Games :* 1999 : Antwerp * 2000 : Paris...

, in which studentteams from different Universities and Colleges worldwide compete in different sport competitions.

History

Until 2003 the Games were held on Weekends during the year - from 2004 onward the Games were held in a one-week period in October, establishing a true World Championship Format.

On May 16, 2009 Valencia (Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

) was announced as the host for the 2010 Games
2010 World Interuniversity Games
The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and are due to take place in Valencia, Spain.-Hosting:...

.

Competitions

Official competitions at this moment include:
  • Football Men
  • Football Women
  • Futsal
    Futsal
    Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...

     Men
  • Basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     Men
  • Basketball Women
  • Volleyball
    Volleyball
    Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

     Men
  • Volleyball Women
  • Golf
    Golf
    Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

     and Pitch&Putt
    Pitch and putt
    Pitch and putt is an amateur sport, similar to golf. The maximum hole length for international competitions is with a maximum total course length of . Players may only use three clubs; one of which must be a putter...


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| colspan="2" align="left" | Futsal
Futsal
Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...

 Men
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 Men
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Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

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Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 and Pitch&Putt
Pitch and putt
Pitch and putt is an amateur sport, similar to golf. The maximum hole length for international competitions is with a maximum total course length of . Players may only use three clubs; one of which must be a putter...


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Objectifs

The main IFIUS objectifs are:

(1) Offer each student in the world the opportunity to compete on an international interuniversity sports level.

(2) Protect the rights of interuniversity sports playing students and universities.

(3) Promote international interuniversity sports in every way it deems fit.

IFIUS Games

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!Year
!Games
!Host City
!Host University
!Remarks
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|1999
1999 World Interuniversity Games
The 1999 World Interuniversity Games were the first edition of the Games , and were held in Antwerp, Belgium....


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1999 World Interuniversity Games
The 1999 World Interuniversity Games were the first edition of the Games , and were held in Antwerp, Belgium....


|  Antwerp (Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

)
|(none)
|Only Football Men Competition
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|2000
2000 World Interuniversity Games
The 2000 World Interuniversity Games were the 2nd edition of the Games , and were held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands....


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2000 World Interuniversity Games
The 2000 World Interuniversity Games were the 2nd edition of the Games , and were held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands....


|  Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 (France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

)
|(none)
|Addition Football Women Competition
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|2001
2001 World Interuniversity Games
The 2001 World Interuniversity Games were the 3rd edition of the Games , and were held in Paris, France....


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2001 World Interuniversity Games
The 2001 World Interuniversity Games were the 3rd edition of the Games , and were held in Paris, France....


|  Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 (the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

)
|(none)
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|2002
2002 World Interuniversity Games
The 2002 World Interuniversity Games were the 4th edition of the Games , and were held in Barcelona, Spain....


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2002 World Interuniversity Games
The 2002 World Interuniversity Games were the 4th edition of the Games , and were held in Barcelona, Spain....


|  Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 (Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

)
|Autonomous University of Barcelona
Autonomous University of Barcelona
The Autonomous University of Barcelona is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain....


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|2003
2003 World Interuniversity Games
The 2003 World Interuniversity Games were the 5th edition of the Games , and were held in Rome, Italy....


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2003 World Interuniversity Games
The 2003 World Interuniversity Games were the 5th edition of the Games , and were held in Rome, Italy....


|  Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 (Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

)
|(none)
|Addition Futsal
Futsal
Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...

 Men Competition
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|2004
2004 World Interuniversity Games
The 2004 World Interuniversity Games were the 6th edition of the Games , and were held in Antwerp, Belgium....


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2004 World Interuniversity Games
The 2004 World Interuniversity Games were the 6th edition of the Games , and were held in Antwerp, Belgium....


|  Antwerp (Belgium)
|University of Antwerp
University of Antwerp
The University of Antwerp is one of the major Belgian universities located in the city of Antwerp. The name is sometimes abbreviated as UA.-History:...


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|2005
2005 World Interuniversity Games
The 2005 World Interuniversity Games were the 7th edition of the Games , and were held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from October 10 to October 14, 2005.-Hosting:...


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2005 World Interuniversity Games
The 2005 World Interuniversity Games were the 7th edition of the Games , and were held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from October 10 to October 14, 2005.-Hosting:...


|  Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

 (the Netherlands)
|INHOLLAND University College

co-hosts: Erasmus University;

Hogeschool Rotterdam
Hogeschool Rotterdam
- About :The Hogeschool Rotterdam is a University of Applied Sciences located in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It was created in 1988 by a large-scale merger of 19 higher education schools followed by a merger with the Hogeschool voor Economische Studies . It holds class at ten locations...


|Addition Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 Men Competition
|-
|2006
2006 World Interuniversity Games
The 2006 World Interuniversity Games were the 8th edition of the Games , and were held in Dublin, Ireland, from October 9 to October 13, 2006.-Hosting:...


|align=center|8
2006 World Interuniversity Games
The 2006 World Interuniversity Games were the 8th edition of the Games , and were held in Dublin, Ireland, from October 9 to October 13, 2006.-Hosting:...


| Dublin (Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

)
|University College Dublin
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...



co-host: Dublin City University
Dublin City University
Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...


|Addition Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 Men and Women Competitions
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|2007
2007 World Interuniversity Games
The 2007 World Interuniversity Games were the 9th edition of the Games , and were held in Vienna, Austria, from October 1 to October 5, 2007.-Hosting:Vienna was selected as host city for the Games...


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2007 World Interuniversity Games
The 2007 World Interuniversity Games were the 9th edition of the Games , and were held in Vienna, Austria, from October 1 to October 5, 2007.-Hosting:Vienna was selected as host city for the Games...


|  Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 (Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

)
|TU Wien
Vienna University of Technology
Vienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...


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|2008
2008 World Interuniversity Games
The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the 10th edition of the Games The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the 10th edition of the Games The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the 10th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and were held in Budapest, Hungary, from October 6 to October...


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2008 World Interuniversity Games
The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the 10th edition of the Games The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the 10th edition of the Games The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the 10th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and were held in Budapest, Hungary, from October 6 to October...


|  Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

 (Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

)
|BME
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics , in hungarian abbreviated as BME, English official abbreviation BUTE, is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary and is also one of the oldest Institutes of Technology in the world, having been founded in 1782.-History:BME is...


|Addition Basketball Women Competition
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|2009
2009 World Interuniversity Games
The 2009 World Interuniversity Games were the 11th edition of the Games The 2009 World Interuniversity Games were the 11th edition of the Games The 2009 World Interuniversity Games were the 11th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and took place in Milan, Italy, from October 12 to October 16,...


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2009 World Interuniversity Games
The 2009 World Interuniversity Games were the 11th edition of the Games The 2009 World Interuniversity Games were the 11th edition of the Games The 2009 World Interuniversity Games were the 11th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and took place in Milan, Italy, from October 12 to October 16,...


|  Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 (Italy)
|Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is a privately-owned Catholic university founded in 1921 by Agostino Gemelli. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy with satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome, and Campobasso...


|Addition Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 and Pitch&Putt
Pitch and putt
Pitch and putt is an amateur sport, similar to golf. The maximum hole length for international competitions is with a maximum total course length of . Players may only use three clubs; one of which must be a putter...

 Competition
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|2010
2010 World Interuniversity Games
The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and are due to take place in Valencia, Spain.-Hosting:...


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2010 World Interuniversity Games
The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games The 2010 World Interuniversity Games will be the 12th edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and are due to take place in Valencia, Spain.-Hosting:...


|  Valencia (Spain)
|Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera
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|2011
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|  Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 (the Netherlands)
|INHolland University of Applied Sciences
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|2012
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|  Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 (Serbia)

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Executive Committee

  • President :   Dr. Bahram Ghadimi (Islamic Azad University
    Islamic Azad University
    Islamic Azad University is a private chain of universities in Iran.Headquartered in Tehran, Iran, the Islamic Azad University was founded in 1982 and currently has an enrollment of 1.5 million students, making it the world's third largest...

    )
  • Vice President :   Mr. Peter Verboven (University of Antwerp
    University of Antwerp
    The University of Antwerp is one of the major Belgian universities located in the city of Antwerp. The name is sometimes abbreviated as UA.-History:...

    )
  • Secretary General :   Dr Gabriel Anicet Kotchofa (Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
    Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
    The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas is a university in Moscow. The university was founded on 17 April 1930 and is named after the geologist Ivan Gubkin. The university is affectionally known as Kerosinka , meaning "kerosene stove"...

    )
  • Treasurer :   Dr. Lyan Tebin (China Youth Development Foundation
    China Youth Development Foundation
    The China Youth Development Foundation is a national non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in March 1989 in Beijing. The CYDF works to develop Chinese youth through education, science and technology, culture, physical education, health, and environmental protection...

    )


Additionally, in 2008 the position of Ambassadorship towards Academic Authorities was created and the post is occupied by Prof. Dr. Francis Baron Van Loon (honorary Rector
Rector
The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...

 University of Antwerp
University of Antwerp
The University of Antwerp is one of the major Belgian universities located in the city of Antwerp. The name is sometimes abbreviated as UA.-History:...

)
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