Norway with the Orienteering Clubs in Østfold will host the World Orienteering Championships in August 2019. In addition to arrange the best WOC ever, the clubs want to use the opportunity that a World Championships provide, to work with the visibility of the sport and to recruit more youngsters to the sport of orienteering. The … Continued
Read Thomas Gloor, Managing Director at OCAD, thoughts and answers about WOD. What are your main concern for being a partner to World Orienteering Day? “WOD is an important project to promote Orienteering not only in emerging countries, also in traditional orienteering countries. We would like to support these efforts providing our software to produce … Continued
The Egypt Orienteering Federation became members in the International Orienteering Federation 2015 and already, after only three years of activities they had a lot of participants at World Orienteering Day 2018. 9200 participants at 12 locations took part during WOD last year. A fantastic result! And one of the most important persons behind the success … Continued
Ben Schultz started some orienteering in Kiribati last year and it proved popular. Ben has contract work in the country and with a lot of quiet weekends on his hands he spent time mapping some areas that were suitable for orienteering. It is a challenge as they have no contours (the highest point being 3m) … Continued
One club and one school! Or why not 13 schools! Eva Bäcklund from Sweden is running a mapping project with 13 schools in her hometown Trollhättan. The youngsters in the club are the mapper and the first part of the project is now finalized, 13 school maps. Second step will be to cover the areas … Continued
Question concerning WOD in Brazil to the president of Brazil O-Federation, Luiz Sergio Mendes. What kind of target did you have with WOD 2018 in Brazil? “Our main target was to increase the number of participants in comparison to 2017.” What did you do to reach the target? What kind of strategy did you implement? … Continued
Valérie Berger-Capbern, Youth Commission of FFCO, Fédération Française de Course d’Orientation tells us about France thoughts of WOD. “Target for us for WOD 2018, was to do more than in 2017, so we targeted 4000. We achieved more than expected thanks to a very big organization by several schools. We made a lot of communication through our … Continued
Lina Balciunaite , working for the Lithuanian orienteering federation the coordinator of WOD project within Lithuanian tells her views of WOD and how the work was done i Lithuania for WOD 2018. “In Lithuania we organize WOD as grant application. Lithuanian orienteering federation gives 4000 Euro budget for WOD project. In April we announce calls for applications. Last year we received … Continued
The Swedish Orienteering Federation have decided to take a more active role in World Orienteering Day 2019. Moa Olsson, newly appointed Children and Youth developer at the Swedish Orienteering Federation, says that they want to make the event more visible and that they will work hard with the marketing of WOD the weeks before the … Continued
The aim of the leaflet is to guide you through the basic knowledge of orienteering in a simple manner and to make orienteering understandable and fun to carry out. The leaflet can be used both by teachers and individuals that want to improve their personal orienteering skills. The latest language is Greek, see below. Which … Continued