I. Time and place. The 23rd SELL Games will be held during the period of May 16 - 20, 2007 in Kaunas. Arrival in Kaunas on May 15th, departure on May - 21.
II. Management of the Games. The OC organizes the SELL Games. The Lithuanian students' sports association together with sports federations carries out sports competitions. The Games will be held by common efforts of Lithuanian students' sports association, the Department of Physical Education and Sport under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, the Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Lithuania, universities of different countries and other sports organizations.
III. Program:
16th of May were will be International science conference "University sports is the heart of all sports".
17th of May Festival "Sport for all" included: street basketball tournament (3x3), street handball tournament (4x4), street football tournament (5x5), orienteering sport for all, cross-country race, darts, floorball, national games, beach volleyball, general gymnastics.
18-20 th of May SELL Games. There will be competitions in 9 different sports: Athletics, Basketball, Orienteering, Mini-football, Table tennis, Swimming, Handball, Judo, Volleyball.
IV. Participants and conditions of participation in the Games. The following candidates are welcome to participate in the SELL Games: day-department university students; Bachelors, Masters of Science; Persons, who graduated from the university one year ago, who produced a diploma copy and a passport. All sportsmen participating in the SELL Games have to be insured. In the opening (May 18) and closing (May 20) ceremonies of the SELL Games all the delegations participate wearing their festive sport costumes. The opening ceremonies of sports and ceremonies of doing honour to prize winners are held in the place of competitions.
V. Establishing the winners and awarding. The sportsmen winners and team winners and prize holders are established in accordance with the regulations of different sports.
The Organizing Committee gives keepsakes of the 23rd SELL Games to the official participants of the Games (sportsmen, leaders, coaches, doctors, organizers, judges, auxiliary personnel and sponsors). Every winner and prize holder (the winner of 2nd-3rd places) in individual and team competitions is personally awarded special diplomas and medals of the 23rd SELL games. All the winners of the 23rd SELL Games will be awarded special prizes of the Organizing Committee.
VI. Application procedure: For participating in the 23rd SELL Games university must be registered in the system in SELL Games web page www.sellgames-2007.com till 15th of March. The Organizing Committee will officially announce the participants of the SELL Games according to the kind of sport till April 14, 2007. All the participants of would-be games present a definite form (for the sportsman, coach. leader, judge or any other personnel) and a photo for an accreditation card. The travel expenses of all the participants of the SELL Games are paid by the organisation that has sent them to the Games. The amount of the minimal participation fee in ball games is 75 EUR per person if the tournament lasts 3 days (includes entrance to all competitions, cultural activities and parties of the Games, accommodation for minimum 3 nights, catering three times a day). Participation fee in individual sports is 25 EUR per person per night in case of floor lodging (in personal sleeping bag on personal mattress).
The fee includes: right to take part in competitions, catering three times a day (one day is counted from 12.00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m., next day), entrance to all competitions, cultural activities and parties of the Games.
Accommodation in hostels or hotels is possible for additional compensation, but the number of rooms is limited.
VII. Transport. The participants will be responsible for their travel to Kaunas and return. There are two international airports Vilnius (VNO) and Kaunas (KUN). Organizers will help to arrange transport from Vilnius or Kaunas Airports on the request of the delegations. Seagoing ferries connect Klaipėda seaport with 6 Baltic Sea ports in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Poland (http://www.lisco.lt/; http://www.scandlines.lt/).
Kaunas is 100 km from Vilnius and from Klaipeda is 213 km. Completed traveling forms should be sent to the OC by April 19.