Strategy, promotion, partners to carry out WOD, financial support, tool to develop orienteering in Norway The national Federation has decided that WOD should be a measure that the entire organization takes part in. To be a part of our strategy to spread the orientation to new people. An event to promote education and interest in school orienteering. … Continued
SPORTident promotes orienteering worldwide. World Orienteering Day 2019 offers you the opportunity to win our products. Your commitment is the organisation of a WOD event. You can win an O-Starter Set or one of three SPORTident Orienteering App Sets. O-Starter is a full SPORTident set with orange control stations, SPORTident-Cards, Cones and up to 1100 … Continued
-What are your main concern for being a partner to World Orienteering Day? “SPORTident basically first sees chances and opportunities but not concerns in all our activities to support the development of orienteering.” -Why did you want to be a partner to World Orienteering Day? “SPORTident’s sponsoring activities are concentrated at activities round about youngsters … Continued
Dobas CEO Dobromir Dobrev thoughts and answer to why they are partner to WOD. What are your main concern for being a partner to World Orienteering Day? “Of course our main concerns are financial because being partner to World Orienteering Day is very responsible but at the same time costly job and we are afraid … Continued
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