CUS Roma Tor Vergata

CUS Roma Tor Vergata is the Sport Association of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Since 2015, CUS Roma Tor Vergata has been promoting sport activities as essential cultural and educational means for students, trainers and university staff to develop transversal and integrated skills and CUS has been supporting the practice and the diffusion of physical education as part of amateur sports. In the development of its activities, CUS Roma Tor Vergata benefits from the sponsorship of several University Departments and works within the following networks: CUSI (Italian University Sports Centre); FISU (International University Sports Federation) and EUSA (European University Sports Association). CUS Roma Tor Vergata is one of the most structured sports organizations in the area with 700 members and 10,000 people participate every year in the numerous recreational and recreational activities CUS Roma Tor Vergata manages two sport facilities with sixteen sections of competitive sports: Athletics, Rugby, Field hockey, Fencing, Greco-roman wrestling, Judo, Cross-country skiing, Female futsal, Volleyball, Sitting volley, Tennis, Table Tennis, Triathlon, Ultimate Frisbee, Basketball and Wheelchair basketball. CUS Roma Tor Vergata fosters children, youth and adult education through cultural courses. It supplies services for schools, implementing at the local level research and training programmes to develop active citizenship and leadership of young people. It organises socio-cultural initiatives and leisure activities in favour of the shareholders, members and participants enrolled. It carries out training projects for technicians, sport managers and students as well as for disadvantaged people. CUS Roma Tor Vergata especially organise adapted sport activities for people with disabilities. Finally, CUS Roma Tor Vergata supports training of trainers’ programmes for social inclusion of people with special needs, like courses for Sports Instructors for disabled people. Since 2018, CUS Roma Tor Vergata has been promoting international and national events of amateur and competitive sport and, in its sports facilities, European and International students’ exchanges take place every year. Sport events are also the occasion to promote the fundamental values that sport conveys: inclusion, equality, fair play and integrity and to raise awareness on the importance of health enhancing physical activity and correct lifestyles, particularly among young people.