Today, September 1st, 2010, FISU officially opens the bidding for the 2017 Winter and Summer Universiades.

The Games are already attributed for 2011, 2013 and 2015, i.e. Erzurum, Turkey; Maribor, Slovenia and Granada, Spain will host the 25th, 26th and 27th Winter Universiade respectively, while Shenzhen, China; Kazan, Russia and Gwangju, Korea will host the 26th, 27th and 28th editions of the Summer Universiade.

Below you will find the bidding procedure time table for the 2017 events.
Bidding Procedure Time Table

September 1st, 2010
– Opening of the Bid
September 1st, 2010 to May 2nd, 2011
– Submission of the Letter of Intention
November 17th-19th, 2010
– Interactive workshop at the City Events Conference
(Brussels, Belgium)
January 27th – February 6th, 2011
– Observer Program for Applicant Cities during the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum
May 2nd, 2011
– Deadline for letters of intent & payment of bidding fee
May 13th, 2011
– Candidate City Workshop in Brussels, Belgium
August 12th – 23rd, 2011
– Observer Program for Candidate Cities during the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen
September 30th, 2011
– Submission of the bidding book
October-November 2011
– Inspection visits by the FISU Winter & Summer Universiade
Evaluation Committees
November 2011
– Final presentations by the Bidding Committees to the FISU
Executive Committee followed by the attribution of the 2017
Winter & Summer Universiade

FISU stands for Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (International University Sports Federation), founded in 1949. FISU’s main responsibility is the supervision of both Summer and Winter Universiades as well as the World University Championships. The Universiade is an international sporting and cultural festival which is staged every two years in a different city and which is second in importance only to the Olympic Games.

The Summer Universiade consists of 13 compulsory sports (Athletics – Basketball – Fencing – Football – Artistic & Rhythmic Gymnastics – Swimming – Diving – Water Polo – Tennis – Table Tennis – Judo – Volleyball) and up to three optional sports chosen by the host country. The record figures are 9,006 participants in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2007 and 174 countries in Daegu, Korea in 2003.

The Winter Universiade consists of 7 compulsory sports (Alpine Skiing – Nordic Skiing composed of Ski Jump, Cross Country & Combined – Biathlon – Ice Hockey – Short-Track Speed Skating – Figure Skating – Curling) and one or two optional sports also chosen by the host country. The Winter Universiade gathered a record 2,511 participants in Torino in 2007 and a record number of 50 countries in Innsbruck, Austria in 2005.

The World University Championships are organized every even year in sports which do not figure on the compulsory Universiade program. In 2008, 29 different WUC were staged all over the world.

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