A taste of rowing and water in Bled

Three company representatives joined with one skilled rower  (and a coxswain) to race. Slovenia’s best rower ever, Iztok Cop helped by giving advice to the participants. Prior to racing the representatives got to row twice and participate in other fitness activities.

“Rowing is great opportunity for team building and also for networking with other participating companies,” said race organiser Petra Farcnik Pirsic. “All of the participants were impressed with the rowing. Before this experience they did not know how much coordination and unity that a rowing crew needed.”

The regatta is it its fourth year and has grown in numbers each year. For 2014 there were 138 participating companies supporting the ‘Water Connects’ project which now has 12,000 students from 200 schools in seven countries participating. The students used the ‘Water Connects’ theme to create projects. The top projects included Marija Vera School in Kamnik, Slovenia using waste oil to make biogas for the production of electricity.

Multiple countries worked on the project, ‘Conserve water – save lives.’ This involved participants describing how water conservation was done in their own countries. This led to 15 rules which were published into a book and translated into 18 languages.