The International University Sports Federation (FISU) had the pleasure of welcoming a high-level delegation from the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) to its headquarters in Lausanne for an official assembly and institutional go to.
The Chinese delegation, led by Prof. Shen Haitao, Vice President of ECUST, included key representatives from each tutorial and administrative management: Prof. Peng Delei, Dean of the Law School; Prof. Ye Xinming, Dean of the School of Sports Engineering; Prof. Lian Cheng, Vice Dean of the School of Chemistry; Mr. Zheng Dong, Deputy Director of the Student Affairs Office; and Ms. Feng Aiai, International Affairs Office.
During the assembly, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was formally signed by ECUST Vice President Shen Haitao, within the presence of FISU Deputy Secretary General Fernando Parente. The MoU had been ready and endorsed by FISU President Leonz Eder and Secretary General and CEO Matthias Remund.
The MoU lays the muse for a robust institutional partnership centred on future collaboration within the growth of sport and schooling. It focuses on a number of strategic areas, together with tutorial and sport-related analysis, pupil wellbeing and sustainability, in addition to energetic participation in FISU programmes and world occasions.
ECUST additionally formally expressed its intention to be a part of the FISU Healthy Campus Programme within the close to future. The university’s dedication to well being and well-being is as sturdy as its funding in elite sport, reflecting a holistic method to pupil growth that embraces each high-performance excellence and sport for all. This alignment with FISU’s values strengthens the muse for long-term cooperation and shared influence.
Table tennis specialists
ECUST is internationally recognised for its excellence in desk tennis. At the Chengdu 2023 FISU World University Games, they swept all seven gold medals, in addition to three silver and three bronze.
Two years later, additionally they achieved exceptional outcomes on the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games, with two gold medals, three silver, and two bronze medals. Notably, all the Chinese delegation in desk tennis was composed of ECUST college students, a testomony to the university’s elite sport growth programme.
With a robust fame throughout China, ECUST is taken into account a nationwide reference in university sport, notably via its School of Sports Engineering, one of essentially the most superior within the nation. The college’s curriculum covers areas resembling teaching, economics, well being sciences, and in sport supplies.
The university’s management expressed a transparent dedication to deepening its engagement in university sport each nationally and internationally, and to strengthening collaboration with FISU within the years forward.
This settlement is a consolidation within the partnership between FISU and Chinese increased schooling and university sports activities establishments, additional increasing the worldwide community of establishments contributing to the event of university sport.