2013 SU Update: Kazan 2013 Volunteers highly commended by FISU for their Work

KAZAN – 50 volunteers are currently working in seven functional areas of the FISU Seminar. Their hard work received a high appraisal from Director for the Winter Universiade Milan Augustin who expressed his deep gratitude to them in his speech.

Kazan 2013 volunteers work in such areas of responsibility as meeting/seeing off services, accreditation, protocol, serving as assistants (attachés) to foreign guests, helping in the seminar’s headquarters. We remind you that the seminar focuses on transfer of theFISUmembers’ experience to the 2013 Games organizers with a view to contribute to a better hosting the Universiade. During the 5 days of the seminar, 50 volunteers are assisting the organizers in the functional areas to which they are assigned.

According to Evgenia Neshataeva, a volunteer team coordinator at the FISU Seminar, the major criterion for being selected as a volunteer for the seminar was a good command of English which is a key factor for staging a top-level event. «Needless to say, all volunteers boast different levels of foreign language proficiency», Evgenia comments. «However, I’m confident that theFISUSeminar is an excellent opportunity to practice language skills and gain vast experience of working at an official meeting.»

It stands to mention that Kazan 2013 volunteers’ hard work was highly appreciated by all the members of the FISU Family. For instance, during his report dedicated to personnel training for the Universiade, Director for the Winter Universiade Milan Augustin stated:«Volunteers that are assisting at your seminar are doing a great job. They are always smiling and accompanying us everywhere, thus we can be sure that we will not get lost and we can work without stress. Dear volunteers, thank you for that! An organizing committee of any Universiade must take special care of volunteers and treat them as most important members of the organizing team. At some Games, volunteers contribute to 80% of the Universiade’s success. »

For reference: The team of Kazan 2013 volunteers was launched in 2009, after the first internship of 150 Tatarstan volunteers at the Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia. Presently, the volunteer movement has among its ranks a few thousand volunteers that are recruited for organizing and staging test competitions and official events in the run up to the 27th Summer Universiade inKazan.

Anyone can become part of the Kazan 2013 volunteer team. To do that, one needs to register online at , to pass an interview and undergo a volunteer training.

(Source: Media Department of Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate)