FIFA Master named the Best Sports Management Master in Europe for the 4th Consecutive Year
During the WISE - Work in Sports Exhibition - convention (Wednesday 6th May), CIES received the coveted 2015 Professors' Choice Award from SportBusiness International for its International Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport (FIFA Master). It means that the FIFA Master was voted the best global course reputation by its academic peers.
The CIES was particularly proud to receive this prestigious award from members of the international academic community.
Winner of the overall award last year, the new 2015 rankings confirmed that the FIFA Master was again the No.1 postgraduate sports management course in Europe among nearly 100 other comparable programmes. This latest award for the FIFA Master continues the outstanding success of the programme.
The course has previously been named the top course in Europe in 2012, 2013, 2014 and top course in the world for 2014.
Professor Denis Oswald receives SportBusiness Award
Presentations at WISE
Apart from receiving the distinctive award mentioned above, the FIFA Master and the Alumni were also very well represented at the WISE Convention by a number of speakers.
Featuring as distinguished participants in the convention’s programme were: Honey Thaljieh, who participated in the panel called “Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiatives”; Daniel Cade, who spoke at the panel “Harnessing Sport for Change: Development, Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability”; Alex Proctor-Pearson, Shoto Zhu, Ophir Zardok and Martin Kaswurm, who delivered the Entrepreneurship Workshop powered by the FMA; Kevin Tallec-Marston, who moderated several panels; and finally CIES’s Secretary General, Vincent Schatzmann, who participated in the panel “Bridging the Academic and the Professional World”.
Alex Proctor-Pearson, Martin Kaswurm, Ophir Zardok and Shoto Zhu present the Entrepreneurship Workshop - powered by the FIFA Master Alumni
Honey Thaljieh takes centre stage to talk about Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiatives
