Calum Moore - 15th, September 2008
European Symposium Champions!! Sheffield SIFE has become the first SIFE UK team to win an international event. Sheffield SIFE faced 9 teams from across Europe. Having won the opening round competitions Sheffield SIFE went on to beat Albania and Sweden in the final!David Catton, the Chairman of Sheffield SIFE and Managing Director of Sheffield University Enterprises Limited, said: "I am delighted at the success of our Sheffield SIFE team. In just three years, they have incorporated their company, recruited a board, which I am especially proud to have been invited to chair, and carried out a significant number of projects demonstrating their entrepreneurship, commitment and enthusiasm to the benefit of the community. The members of Sheffield SIFE are splendid examples of all that is good in 21st Century student life."
Jim Ineson, Executive Director of SIFE UK, said: "SIFE UK is very proud of the achievement of Sheffield SIFE in winning the 2008 European Symposium. The Sheffield students presented their portfolio of sustainable projects in a very professional and business-like manner, concentrating very much on changing lives in their local community.
"This is the first international event that SIFE UK has won in our seven year history, and confirms our progress towards becoming a world-class SIFE organisation."