FIVB

World Congress to be streamed live‏

CAGLIARI, Sardinia, October 29, 2014 – The FIVB is pleased to announce that live streaming of the 34th World Congress will be available on the FIVB website from Thursday with a one-day workshop for national federations opening proceedings in Cagliari, Italy.

The biennial meeting will welcome 200 national federations to the Sardinian city and the live stream means that members of the volleyball family from around the world will have the opportunity to learn about the organisation’s activities over the last two years.

Click here to access the live stream

This year’s Congress is expected to focus on the dynamic modernisation of global volleyball over the past two years and how that success can be built upon for the continued betterment of the sport.

Whilst the last two years have set the pace for technological evolution, the FIVB is continuing to make strides into new areas to constantly improve the sport.

The 2014 edition will not be an electoral one, with attention also focused on reports from all of the FIVB’s properties as well as ratifying decisions made by the Board of Administration and Executive Committee.

The Congress will be preceded by a one-day workshop for national federations in categories 1 and 2 with the theme “From vision to action”. The aim is to create an open dialogue between all member federations through collaboration.

The previous workshop at the 2012 Congress included 159 participants from 146 countries and the goal for the 2014 edition is to better that number.

Key items on the proposed agenda include:

• Global development report overview from last two years.

• National Federation Strategic Report – opportunities and challenges.

• Development of competitions.

• Digital and social media

• Managing innovation and change

• Working with government in schools

• Commercial aspirations and investment for the future

The FIVB Executive Committee met on Tuesday to discuss the agenda and working file. This was followed by a FIVB Board of Administration meeting on Wednesday where they reviewed the organisation’s activities over the last two years before finalising the proposals to be submitted to the national federation representatives at the Congress.

FIVB World Congress History

	Date	Location	N°delegates from NF (incl. Proxies)
1	18-20 April 1947	Paris	14
2	12-18 September 1949	Prague	11
3	18-22 September 1951	Paris	23
4	14-16 November 1953	Bucharest	20
5	25-27 November 1955	Florence	23
6	7-8 September 1957	Moscow	30
7	2-6 October 1959	Budapest	32
8	6-11 September 1961	Marseille	34
9	16-20 October 1964	Tokyo	46
10	8-10 September 1966	Prague	47
11	18-22 October 1968	Mexico	74
12	25-29 September 1970	Sofia	70
13	4-6 September 1972	Munich	81
14	9-10 October 1974	Mexico	79
15	28-29 July 1976	Montreal	77
16	29-30 September 1978	Rome	70
17	31 July - 1 August 1980	Moscow	84
18	29-30 September 1982	Buenos Aires	88
19	25-26 July 1984	Los Angeles	90
20	5-6 September 1986	Prague	62
21	14-15 September 1988	Seoul	91
22	13-14 October 1990	Rio de Janeiro	101
23	21-22 July 1992	Barcelona	110
24	23-24 September 1994	Athens	134
25	14-16 July 1996	Atlanta	134
26	26-28 October 1998	Tokyo	139
27	2-4 August 2000	Seville	156
28	21-23 September 2002	Buenos Aires	177
29	12-13 May 2004	Porto	168
30	23-25 October 2006	Tokyo	196
31	16-17 June 2008	Dubai	184
32	9-10 September 2010	Rome	195
33	19-21 September 2012	Anaheim	196