coordinator:
PIC: 922262421
was founded March 13th, 2010. It is a private collaborative association of public utility, and therefore, not-for-profit. It has its own legal status, and full capacity to exercise goals and powers within its jurisdiction, as governed by The Law on Associations 74/14 and by The Law on Sports 19/16 pursuant to the regulations of the Croatian sport legislation, by its Statute, General Regulation and the remaining internal standards required in exercising its competencies.
In addition to its own competencies, OWSCP exercises public administration under the supervision and guardianship of the National Open Water Swimming (OWS) Federation, and Sport Association of the City of Rijeka. OWSCP is, firstly, part of the local aquatics association Primorje’08 established in 1908, and in addition, it is affiliated with the national OWS Federation, and through it integrated into the Croatian Olympic Committee.
The main aims of the Club are: 1. Advancement and development of distance and marathon swimming as one of the Olympic disciplines; 2. Improvement of the recreational swimmers’ swimming techniques, their psycho-motoric abilities and their participations in competitions and recreational swimming activities.
During nine years of its existence, OWSCP has organized more than 100 OWS events, including the LEN Aquatics Day founded in 2013 for the whole of Croatia, when LEN established the European day of aquatic sports, as a swimming competition that includes other LEN aquatics sports.
partners:
Project Partner 2: Slovenia
Športno društvo plavalna akademija Rok Kerin/ Sport Club Swim Academy Rok Kerin (SARK)
PIC: 900715132
As the Swimming Club SARK is specialised in activities:
· a swimming school of more than 100 children (annually more than 250)
· primary school swimming programs for over 15 schools
· individual swimming coaching
· mail Open water swimming clinics school
· events for young and senior OWS swimmers
· Lifeguard Courses
Project Partner 3: Italia
Società Italiana di Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunologia – Commissione Nazionale Discipline Corporee) / Italian Society of Psychoneuroendocrine Immunology – National Research Committee On Human Body Disciplines (SIPNEI DISCO)
PIC: 895484504
The Italian Society of PsychoNeuroEndocrineImmunology (SIPNEI) promotes the study of the human organism as a whole and in its fundamental relationship with the environment, in the broadest sense of the term, taking into account the complexity and biopsychosocial interdependence of the phenomena. To this end, SIPNEI promotes changes in care, education, scientific research, and human relationships.
Within SIPNEI, the DISCO group (National Research Committee on Human Body Disciplines), founded in March 2014, aims at promoting a scientific approach to the practice of human body disciplines. Body-based work, including sports, osteopathy, body-based psychotherapies, shiatsu, and other oriental disciplines, etc., represents a safe and effective way to access the human body-mind network and promote psychophysical health and well-being.
Similarly, the DISCO group aims at educating people on a healthy and active lifestyle.
Among other disciplines, DISCO promotes and encourages the practice of bathing/swimming in cool/cold water during the whole year, in natural environment, with direct physical impact, to demonstrate the importance of this practice as a source of well-being.
The activities of SIPNEI DISCO comprise:
- Creating a network of people with similar experiences and sharing the same values at regional, national and international level
- Sharing various materials (articles, theses, research, tools, etc.)
- Participation in training projects, scientific and research dissemination
Since its foundation, SIPNEI DISCO has been active in:
- Organization of national congresses on body disciplines
- Publication of books and articles at national and international level
- Teaching body disciplines under the PNEI paradigm
Particularly, DISCO members involved in winter sea bathing have experience in:
- Organization of public events on winter sea bathing with hundreds of participants
- Organization of popular and scientific conferences
- Publication of popular and scientific articles on national and international journals