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It is with immeasurable sadness that the CSIT learned of the passing of GAISF-president and IOC-member Patrick Baumann.

With deep sorrow CSIT has to inform its big sports family that CSIT Honorary Member Rudolf Spiola recently died aged 88 in Vienna

The Chairman of the CSIT Technical Commission Chess candidates for the position as Vice President of the World Chess Confederation

At the next General Assembly of AFWSI Mr. Javad Ramzi will take over the presidency

CSIT member organization AFWSI held its first event under the patronage of CSIT.

French Sports community awarded the nine FSGT Gold Medallists from the CSIT World Sports Games in Riga 2017.

Be up to date! Here you can find all CSIT events and supported partner events 2018. Further activities are to be expected.

CALENDAR 2018 

After 12 years Jan Ludvigsen had chosen to resign as DAI President and devote himself to the work of football.

The 23rd Congress of long-term cooperation partner European Fair Play Movement was held October 24-25, 2017, in Haifa (ISR).

While mamanet is starting into the second year in Ohio on the US east coast, mamanet went this September to LA in order to expose the movement to a wider audience, to certify game Coaches, Referees & Scorers, train league professional coordinators, reach a wider community of mothers and develop the international activity in community building.

CSIT Secretary General Wolfgang Burghardt attended the Mamanet Austria press conference in Vienna for the official presentation of the new sports movement for women & mothers in Austria.

DAI Vice-President and former chairman of CSIT TC Football Jens Jörgen Nygaard died on August 27, only 68 years old.

CSIT is looking forward to the close cooperation with the World O-Sport Federation WOF during the upcoming CSIT World Sports Games from 13^th to 18^th June, 2017 in Riga (Latvia). WOF will organize an O-Sport World Cup (Original Persian Sports) within the framework of the WSG, hold O-Sport workshops together with Amateur Federation of Workers Sport of Iran and present this sport under the category of new and demonstrative Sports. Both organisations, CSIT and WOF, are working on a long and intensive partnership.

Achieving the overwhelming majority of 40 out of 40 votes Dr. Seyed Amir Hosseini (former acting President) became the new president of Iranian Workers Sport Federation Assembly AFWSI for the next period of four years.

Beginning of October European Fair Play Movement (EFPM) held its 22nd General Assembly in Vienna. Main topics were the election of a new board of EFPM, presentation of the annual EFPM-Awards and election of the EFPM President: Austrian Christian Hinterberger was re-elected with a overwhelming majority of 100 % and starts into his next period as EFPM President. CSIT Vice President Anu Rajajarvi and CSIT Secretary General Wolfgang Burghardt participated at the General Assembly and congratulated Christian Hinterberger personally.

CSIT cooperation partner IWG - International Working Group on Women and Sport will hold the "Africa Women and Sport Conference" on October 14-15, 2016 in Gaborone / Botswana.

General Secretary Wolfgang Burghardt represented the CSIT at the 27^th Crans Montana Forum in Vienna. This extraordinary platform aims for building a more Humane and Impartial World “Committed to a more Humane and Impartial World” and encourages international cooperation and overall growth. It also works to promote best practices and to ensure a permanent dialogue between all those who handle high-level responsibilities.

Almost 200 players from the Mamanet league, the women's largest league in Israel and the third largest sports field, played the first International Mamanet tournament in Spain. The international preliminaries for the CSIT World Sport Games 2016, which will be held in Riga, Latvia.



Beginning of April CSIT was invited to the latest Congress of Panathlon International. Official CSIT representative and one of the keynote-speakers was CSIT Vice-President Bruno Molea. Main topic of the Congress was the “Charter of the duties of parents in Sport”. A new initiative of Panathlon International, what the CSIT leadership agrees unanimously with.

Save the date for the first International Mamanet Seminar in Austria / Vienna, September 1-4, 2016.  Invited are all active CSIT member unions and in particular those who are interested to plan starting with national Mamanet activities. 
Mamanet Austria Secretary General Sissi Speiser and founder Ofra Abramovic are looking forward to welcoming you in Vienna, one of the most beautiful cities of the world!  The official invitation will follow soon!  In case of further questions please do not hesitate to contact Mamanet Austria via speiser@mamanet.at directly or the CSIT Office.