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In Gdynia, during the Gdynia Sailing Days regatta, PYA hosted its Partners of the VolunSailing project. Tomasz Chamera – PZŻ President and Alexandru Micu, President of the Romanian Wind Hunters club signed the final protocol of this international project implemented with the funds obtained by PYA from the Erasmus+ Sport program of the European Commission.
– The meeting was planned in such a way that it would take place on the last weekend of the Gdynia Sailing Days and Polboat Yachting Festival so that our guests, apart from work, could take advantage of the water and land attractions offered by these two events – Anna Kuder states.
In the project, PYA is the leader and Hungarian Yachting Association and the Romanian sports club Wind Hunters are the Partners. The mentioned protocol, after being signed by Andras Holczhauser, the secretary general of the Hungarian Yachting Association, absent at the meeting, will be forwarded to the European Commission.
– We are very pleased that the Polish Yachting Association invited us to this project – says Alexandru Micu, president of the Wind Hunters club. – It’s a good idea to create a volunteer project. Cooperation brings mutual benefits – they gain knowledge, can develop, they also gain access to sailing equipment, and we increase the number of people involved in sailing and our projects.
VolunSailing aims to promote and activate volunteering during various sailing events and to create documents that contain standards and procedures ready to be used both in sailing organizations of the three collaborating countries, as well as in the functioning of EUROSAF and World Sailing.
– I must admit that it is great to observe how this project brought our teams closer and how, in less than two years, from completely strangers to each other, we turned into a well-functioning team, in which everyone has their place, their tasks and responsibilities. The designed work went very smoothly this time and the project is basically finished. The documents that will constitute its main outcome will be ready for publication in October 2022. Thanks to this, we will devote the last months of the project (which ends on December 31, 2022) to its promotion and dissemination – adds Anna Kuder.
In the upcoming weeks, the tools and documents developed by the VolunSailing project will be made available to sailing clubs, local and national federations and to everyone interested. Organisational guidelines on how to start volunteering in your organisation, other blueprints related to volunteering and contract templates will be included in the published package.
– We believe that everything will go as planned and VolunSailing will be positively assessed by the European Commission. We see potential in this project, so we have applied for further financing and we have a chance to implement an extended project called “All Hands on Deck“. We intend to expand our activities with new sailing federations. We plan to cooperate with Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and the Baltic Countries. The decision whether we will receive financing will be announced in the fall – Maciej Szafran, the coordinator of the VolunSaling project, adds.