"The USU SPIRIT Club is a group of young people who love sports to disseminate the importance of proper sports and healthy nutrition to support physical activity. This group was formed with the support of the Chancellor of USU, Prof. Dr. Muryanto Amin, S.Sos, M.Sc. With the hope of the younger generation is to become agents of change in increasing physical activity among young people and the general public," explained the USU SPIRIT Project Coordinator, Prof. Dr. dr. Dina Keumala Sari, M. Nutrition, SpGK (K), Friday (2/6/23).

Prof. Dina also emphasized the importance of developing a curriculum that will be implemented and implemented at the Universitas Sumatera Utara. The development of sports and proper nutrition curricula is carried out using 2 models, which are Conventional Courses and Life Long Learning Courses.

"Conventional Courses have been run at USU's Faculty of Medicine in two blocks, which are the Wellness Integrated Medicine and Senior Care blocks. Meanwhile, Life Long Learning Courses are lifelong learning courses devoted to academics broadly," he explained.

The development of this curriculum includes the LLL course in collaboration with the University of Nicosia, Cyprus which is developing the Nutrition Management and Exercise in Cancer Patient course. This development also received a very positive response from the Rector of UNIC, Philipos Pouyoutas. Which openly hopes that this collaboration can be developed and continued in the context of cooperation in the fields of education and research," he concluded.

Where this course will get an official certificate from USU's FK with a total of 2 credits equivalent to 3 ECTS. This curriculum development is expected to provide new insights in the development of sports teaching techniques so that later it will focus on sports development and nutrition for athletes.

This news already publish in the online newspaper which area Analisa online: https://analisadaily.com/berita/baca/2023/06/02/1042784/usu-dan-spirit-club-berkunjung-ke-university-of-nicosia-cyprus/

And Waspada online: https://waspada.id/pendidikan/usu-dan-spirit-club-mengunjungi-university-of-nicosia-cyprus/

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