September 15^th, a working meeting of the Education Commission of the European University Sports Association (EUSA) took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The Commission consisted of experts from Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, and Russia with Elena Ponomaryova as its representative (Associate Professor of the Department of Management, Marketing and Foreign Trade and Supervisor of Master's degree programme "Sports Diplomacy").

The participants discussed problems and prospects of business education that encourages students from European sports universities to pursue dual careers. E.Ponomareva presented to her colleagues a new Master's degree programme "Sports Diplomacy" withinthe MGIMO Business School, described its new educational goals, structure and advantages that open up to students through international exchanges and universitу partnerships.

The working group discussed the EUSA initiatives to develop international European cooperation in sports education as well as "Sports Diplomacy" students' enrollment in the EUSA internships.