Sustainability at Torino 2025
The organizational efforts for the Torino 2025 FISU Games have already begun, aiming to deliver an event rooted in environmental and economic sustainability, leaving a legacy for future generations of students.
Climate change is the most critical challenge humanity will face in the coming decades. Although states and international public and private organizations have recognized the issue since the 1980s, only recently have citizens and individual sectors actively begun working toward concrete solutions to this daily, growing crisis.
The Torino 2025 World University Games mark a significant step towards 2030: the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals form the foundation of the event’s activities and communication, with the aim not only of making the Games themselves sustainable—from planning through to legacy initiatives—but also of becoming a powerful platform for climate action through initiatives like the BRAINstorm project, which will amplify what can and must be done to restore climate balance.
This social, cultural, and technological challenge will be shaped with careful attention to the strategies being adopted at the upcoming FISU Games in Lake Placid in January 2023. These insights will be discussed and furthered in partnership with RUS (the Network of Sustainable Universities), which already collaborates with CRUI, ASVIS, WWF, UNICEF, the Kyoto Club, and other national and international actors working towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
In pursuit of its objectives, the Organizing Committee also prioritizes structural sustainability, utilizing facilities from the 2006 Torino Olympics and Paralympics, the 2007 Winter Universiade, and numerous other recent international snow and ice events.
Guided by a commitment to peace and the future of younger generations, and inspired by the goals first set forth by Primo Nebiolo in 1959, the Torino 2025 Organizing Committee aims to elevate these issues, once again harnessing sport as a unique vehicle for positive collective identity. It invites students, educators, institutions, and the media to work together toward immediate solutions to the pressing sustainability challenges we face.
This initiative was officially launched on September 20, 2023, at the “Going Sustainable | Sustainability and Sporting Events for Regional Development” meeting held at 9:30 a.m. at the Valentino Castle in Torino. This event opened the first chapter of an ongoing dialogue that will culminate on January 12, 2025, during the FISU Games World Conference.
