All Budapest 2008 figures are showing a successful growth and not only in the number of participation requests. IFIUS welcomes also a significant increase in the daily amount of visits on the official website - every day more than 300 visitors are counted.

A record number of women’s teams registered for Budapest 2008. The basketball women competition finally deserves a place at the Games with 9 registered university teams. In addition, the partcipating universities will represent more countries than ever, 29 in total already at this moment. Finally, the total number of participating teams has increased with nearly 35 % in comparison with the already successful Vienna 2007 Games.

Over the next weeks, David Van den Bosch, will interview each IFIUS member on an interactive basis. As a result, IFIUS will introduce each Budapest 2008 participant on this website, including a presentation of the university (teams) and the Budapest 2008 expectations. A unique chance to get to know all the members of the worldwide IFIUS family.

IFIUS wishes everybody in the university community Happy Holidays. The Federation is also very happy to inform you that registration for the 10th IFIUS World Interuniversity Games Budapest 2008 is running fluently with interest for all sports from all the continents of the world.
During the Season’s Holidays, IFIUS will still be reachable on info@ifius.com.

The Ferencvaros venue will not only welcome all football (6 pitches) and futsal (2 pitches) games, it will also serve as an administrative centre where IFIUS staff, temporary staff, commission members and EC members will be accommodated, incorporating the necessary meeting and catering modalities.

Last Wednesday, Mr. Bohak Andras, President of the Student Union of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, welcomed Peter Verboven (IFIUS) and Zoltan Dibo (Budapest 2008 Organization Committee) at the union’s offices in the main building of the university.

Otto Torok (Hungarian Olympic Committee Youth Program) and Peter Verboven (IFIUS) met at the Hungarian Olympic House to examine the possibilities to involve children from Hungarian Secondary Schools in the organization of the World Interuniversity Games.

The new IFIUS website offers visitors a user-friendly interactive platform. IFIUS.com will inform you on a regular basis about all international interuniversity sport developments.

An IFIUS delegation visited Budapest from 5 to 7 November. On Monday the different venues were presented by the Chairman of the local organization committee, Zoltan Dibo of the Budapest University of Technology (BUT).