The FISU (International University Sports Federation) was formed within university institutions in order to promote sporting values and encourage sporting practice in harmony with, and complementary to, the university spirit. To promote sporting values means encouraging friendship, fraternity, fair-play, perseverance, integrity, co-operation and application amongst students who will one day hold responsible, and even key positions in politics, the economy, culture and industry. As allies or competitors, perhaps even as antagonists, these men and women will have learned how to collaborate and confront every eventuality whilst respecting the ethical code enshrined in these values. Promoting sporting values and sporting practice also means giving a new dimension to the university spirit in study, research, and discipline, through the strong affirmation of the full humanist development of the individual and, thus, of society at large. This development is not just intellectual, but also moral and physical.
The university student should be able to practice sport at his own chosen level within his university. Even if he reaches a high level of competition in his sport, the student will not look upon these competitions as an end in themselves, but as an element in the development of his own potential, in the same way as he prepares for his professional life. With its international dimension, FISU brings together the university community in the wider sense, necessarily transcending the conflicts which divide countries and peoples, to achieve harmony between Academic Excellence and Top-Level Sport, or Competition and Leisure Sports. The World University Sporting Movement also aims to become a powerful channel of communication for bringing together the various communities whose rich diversity is all too often a source of conflict today. This philosophy necessarily implies that FISU should be not only international, but also independent and free, regardless of the source of financial and technical support from its institutional, academic, financial or media partners.
Source： www.fisu.net Editor： 王佳