The FIFA Master is a unique 10-month sport (and not solely football...) Master programme, initiated by FIFA, coordinated by CIES, and taught by three prestigious European universities: De Montfort University (Leicester, UK), SDA Bocconi School of Management (Milan, IT) and Neuchatel University (Neuchatel, CH), in association with the Università della Svizzera italiana.
Partner of CIES since 2009, the Birzeit University in Ramallah has officially launched the 1st edition of the FIFA/CIES Programme of sport management. The courses will start in March 2010.
The Programme enables people from various professional and sporting horizons to familiarise themselves with modern management tools in key areas such as marketing, sponsoring, law, management, communication, finances and event management. Adapted to regional and national realities, it also offers the opportunity to attend lectures given by international FIFA/CIES experts. In this respect, the Birzeit University and CIES have held various meetings in order to indentify the needs of sports in Palestine.
The International University Network created in the framework of the FIFA/CIES Programme comprises 11 universities, namely, the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires, the Universidad Santo Tomás in Santiago de Chile, the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal), the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth (South Africa), the University of South Africa in Pretoria, the Cairo University in Egypt, the Universidad de Costa Rica in San José, the University of the West Indies in Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago), the Birzeit University in Ramallah (Palestine), the Bahcesehir University in Istanbul (Turkey) and the National University of Physical Education and Sport of Ukraine in Kiev.
For further information: Fatina Jamal
Phone: 02-298 21 64
Mobile: 0599-474 096
@: fjamal@birzeit.edu
CIES (International Centre for Sports Studies), located in Neuchatel, is a private Swiss foundation, affiliated with the University of Neuchatel and created in 1995 by FIFA (under the impetus of its current president, Mr. Joseph S. Blatter), the University of Neuchatel, and the City and Canton of Neuchatel.
CIES specialises in three specific domains: law, sociology and economy of sport, with a view to bring together the sporting and the academic worlds. Privileging a pluri-disciplinary approach, CIES provides a wide range of research, education and consultancy services.