The development of the world of sports among Universitas Airlangga students in general has experienced quite satisfactory improvements. Young potential and talent have begun to emerge along with the development of the world of sports, this cannot be separated from the participation of several parties who provide support and space for students to actualize their creativity and sportsmanship in a tournament. Apart from that, euphoria in tournaments or competitions can also raise the enthusiasm of young people, especially in the world of sports, so that it can become a means for students to enliven themselves by participating and supporting the teams that are competing.
Thus, to realize this, we consider that the potential that they have requires space for students to be able to channel their talents. So there needs to be real activities that can raise enthusiasm as well as active, productive and educational cooperation to create a sense of togetherness. With the Ekis Internal Cup, it can become a forum for Islamic Economics students who are expected to be able to raise the fighting spirit of young people in developing their talents in the field of sports. Therefore, we intend to hold an offline and online competition. Competitions held in the sports category are futsal, basketball, badminton and table tennis, and then in the E-sports category namely Mobile Legends, FIFA and valorant between students majoring in Islamic Economics on November 4 - November 19 2023. In this way, it is hoped that it can grow competitive spirit so that they can develop their spirit of creativity and sportsmanship and can further strengthen friendly relations between generations in the Islamic Economics department.
This event is related to point 3 of the SDGs, namely a healthy and prosperous life because this event is based on various sports competitions as a forum for channeling hobbies that can make the body healthy. Apart from that, this event is also related to point 4 of the SDGs, namely quality education because this event can be a forum for developing human resources in organizing an event and as an opportunity to improve non-academic skills.
This year the Ekis Cup Internal 2023 has the theme "Escalation Of Expectation". The theme choice was motivated by increasingly sophisticated developments. This phenomenon gives us expectations or hope that the development of the world of sports can gradually increase over time. By holding a sports competition in among youth, we hope to be agents of change for Indonesia's golden generation.
