Active • Competitive • Innovative

Scottish Universities Sport was set up in June 2005 with the stated aims of ensuring quality and breadth in well-managed sporting programmes, increasing and promoting involvement in Physical Activity, and aiding and supporting the development of appropriate professional structures and systems throughout sport in Higher Education in Scotland.

SUS is a democratically constituted, innovative, partnership organisation, comprising both students and professional staff from HEIs across the country, and which fosters a number of key partnerships - most notably with sportscotland and British Universities and Colleges Sport - in the delivery of its objectives.

SUS has proved itself to be a key part of the sporting landscape in Scotland. Outward-facing, SUS engages with key partners, linking effectively with NGBs, the Scottish Institute Network and other national bodies, and strives to reflect and represent the key part which Scotland's Universities can play in the nation's future sporting success, fitness and health

Active

The value of physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle is irrefutable, and it is a key SUS project to promote, develop, and integrate physical activity programmes into wider University life, and thereafter into the consciousnesses of thousands of students, staff and local communities. With such a high percentage of Scotland's youth in Higher or Further Education, SUS will capitalise on the knowledgeable staff and excellent facilities in its member institutions to help to change attitudes, and to get more people, more active, more often. For more on this aspect of the work of the SUS Physical Activity Committee please click here.

Competitive

SUS strives to deliver an enjoyable, appropriate, and increasingly modern and professional sporting programme to students. Recognising 35 sports, SUS provides efficient, effective and reliable competitive structures, appropriate to the needs and requirements of the student competitors within them - whether they are beginners or at an elite level. The SUS network of Sports Development Coordinators, headed up by the SUS Sports Manager, is charged with the delivery of these sporting programmes against the policy and priorities set by the SUS Competitions Committee. For more on the work of the SUS Competitions Committee please click here.

Innovative

As an organisation which prides itself on its professional procedures, SUS will improve and streamline its operations throughout HE (and FE) in Scotland. Thinking and operating in new ways, SUS will rely heavily on a comprehensive and reliable communications network, and will develop models of good practise to be shared throughout the sector - including procedures to support and train key delivery personnel at grass roots level. Smart thinking from SUS will enable HE Sport in Scotland to respond as a whole and in an effective manner. For more on the Professional Development Committee of SUS please click here.