Last week, on June 9th in Ljubljana, Slovenia, COTRUGLI Business School, together with organisations European Universities Games 2016 (EUG), European University Sports Association (EUSA) and European Paralympic Committee (EPC) have signed a partnership contract, with which they launced an Online MBA scholarship project for people with disabilities in Europe.
From June 15th, all european candidates with Undergraduate or Masters degree and excellent English konwledge, will have the opportunity to apply for winning one of 20 full scholarships for Online MBA program which is provided by COTRUGLI, leading business school in the SEE region.
Partnership organisations, EUG, EUSA and EPC will encourage and motivate students who participate and follow Games 2016 and events to apply and to continue their lifelong education.
The signing ceremony took place in the premises of European University Sports Association in Ljubljana. Partnership representatives gathered for the offical signing and shared their vission of this cooperation.
Lynne Montgomery,Vice president of COTRUGLI Business School – „It is a very meaningfull project for us in COTRUGLI. We need a full integration of people with disabilities to society and we thank all our partners for amazing support we are getting. We know that this in not just an education for people with disabilities. This is commitment also to mentoring and to working with companies, to potentially in the future finding employment for them. We are very excited for the Games 2016 and to find a students through this chanels. I have a good feeling this is going to be a great success and we are promising our full support in consulting for the mutual interest.
Mihovil Španja – former paralympic swimmer and COTRUGLI Business School Business Department Officer – „As a former professional athlete and paralympic swimmer and member of COTRUGLI, I am proud to be an ambassador of European Universities Games and to promote Online MBA programme for students with disabilities. I believe we are sending the strong message. Except scholarships, we are also trying to help them to get an exceptional education and to build their business careers. We want them to become a relevant part of our society as a whole. As you know this is the first time in the EUG history that students with disabilities will participate at the Games. I feel trully emotional for this project and let me say that I will help every of our potential students on his way to go through the programme and to prove that students with disabilities are more than able to do it.“
Matjaž Pečovnik, Secretary General of European University Sports Association – „We are very happy to have received an offer from Zagreb and Rijeka to organize the European University Games (EUG) 2016. One year ago we signed a cooperation agreement with European Paralympic Committee (EPC). This was the perfect moment to join all the forces between EUSA,EUG and EPC. We decided with EUG Organisation committee to have two sports for students with disablities in the programme, swiming and table tennis. Today we are very happy for this occasion to reach for the new partnership with Cotrugli Business School (CBS). This is the first case that we have scholarships for the students and people with disabilities. EUSA will also try as organisation to stimulate students who participate on our events and we are all united to have an coleague games.“
Ratko Kovačić, Vicepresident of European Paralympic Committee – „I am optimist that we will have 200 students with disablities in two sports at the next European Universities Games. Our intention is to solve education problem for athletes with disablities and COTRUGLI Business School scholarships will be a wonderfull oportunity for them to study and to have a high education. We will use all of our communication channels to promote this programme and hope we will have a celebration after the first athletes with disabilities finish CBS Online MBA programme.“
Marko Žunić, Secretary General of European University Games – This project is four times win situation for all parties, for EUSA,EUG,EPC and CBS. We share the same vision and developing inclusive and social awareness project. Next year we have the most massive sport event in Europe, European Universities Game in Zagreb and Rijeka. We are going to put some benchmark for the next organizers and make all university sports proud. I need to emphasize that we have the same programme at the Games for students with and without disabilities. I believe this is the biggest message we are sending through all of our channels and on the personal level. “
