FISU Opens Bidding for 2017 Universiades

BRUSSELS – 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 25^th, 26^th and 27^th Winter Universiade respectively, while Shenzhen, China; Kazan, Russia and Gwangju, Korea will host the 26^th, 27^th and 28^th editions of the Summer Universiade.

Below you will find the bidding procedure time table for the 2017 events. 

Bidding Procedure Time Table
 

September 1^st, 2010
– Opening of the Bid
September 1^st, 2010 to May 2^nd, 2011
– Submission of the Letter of Intention
November 17^th-19^th, 2010

– Interactive workshop at the City Events Conference

(Brussels, Belgium)

January 27^th – February 6^th, 2011

– Observer Program for Applicant Cities during the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum

May 2^nd, 2011

– Deadline for letters of intent & payment of bidding fee

May 13^th, 2011

– Candidate City Workshop in Brussels, Belgium

August 12^th – 23^rd, 2011

– Observer Program for Candidate Cities during the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen

September 30^th, 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