EDBF Milestones

MILESTONES

How to practically increase the appeal of Dragonboating in a rapidly changing world

Reinforce the chinese traditions embracing change for a better future

  • Support the IOC recignition process
  • Support the new IDBF/ICF Joint agreement
  • European Dragon Boat calendar reform
  • Education, safety and youth development

Improve decentralisation and empowerment for​

  • National Federations
  • Executive committee
  • Council
  • EDBF Commissions

Better integrity
and trust

  • Ethical responsibility
  • Business integrity
  • Officials and race officials education

Suistainable
and responsible

  • Be social responsible
  • Testimonial to reduce enviromental impact
  • Financially transparent

Revenue
Generation

  • A solid broadcast
  • A digital platform
  • Understanding our paddlers and prospecvtive paddlers and nurturing these relationships
  • Customer relationship management (CRM) a priority for our sport organisation

Solid and
strong communication

  • EDBF web site redesign and social media presence
  • More systematic relations with the media
  • Press releases
  • Promotional material for Universities and schools
  • EDBF institutional brochure 

EDBF Platform

THE EDBF INNOVATION PLATFORM

Insight & Inspiration – By Claudio Schermi 

Dear EDBF Members, 

dear Friends of the European Dragon Boat Community of Europe, 

I have been elected EDBF President at the 28th Ordinary Congress, held in Divonne Les Bains on the 31st July 2017. After the handover I’m in charge since 1st January 2018. In the last few years many things have changed. As we enter a new era for our sport and our Members, there needs to be some changes in EDBF. As we evolve, we must maintain the Dragon Boat Chinese Traditions and ensure that the core values and founding principles of our sport remain intact. My experience as an athlete, coach and race official in Kayak and Dragon Boat as well as competing at National and International levels has given me the vision to deliver an exciting and appealing program for the coming years. Sport has shaped me – from my youth as a competitive athlete to this time as the EDBF President, former IDBF Senior Vice-President, former President of the Italian Dragon Boat Federation, Chairman of the Ravenna 2014 Organizing Committee for the IDBF CCWC and Rome 2016 Organizing Committee for the EDBF European Nations Championships. Until now, I can honestly say that, from my heart, my experiences in sport have been the foundation of everything I have achieved in life, and I continue to learn so much as I am constantly challenged to be innovative.

My Dragon Boat experience has given me the insight and wisdom to understand the aspirations for those in our sport; both the most active members and members with limited resources, who can count on me when it comes to protect and nurture our Dragon Boat family. Our Federation’s members are the bedrock of our sport. To reinforce our ambitions we must recognise that we have new challenges facing us and that we need to have real vision and fresh leadership in tackling those challenges.

To reinforce our ambitions we must recognise that we have new challenges facing us and that we need to have real vision and fresh leadership in tackling those challenges. My objectives as EDBF President are that we need to refresh our competitions, improve our sport’s presentation, reform our sporting calendar, embrace new media, and shape our own future within the EDBF and the European paddle sport community. We need to work together, to involve the Executive Committee and the Council in the day by day life of our organization.

The EDBF needs to be committed to the long term future of our sport, developing strategies in areas such as sustainable development, education, safety and youth development. My main goal is to grow DragonBoating in Europe and to make our sport able to generate increased revenue and thus opportunity for our paddlers, for our members, and for the organisation of our sport at every level. I would like to say that we are very lucky in EDBF. We always put the interests of the athletes first and at the heart of our discussions. Since I become EDBF President, everything I do has been founded on a creative partnership with you.

My project for the European Dragon Boat Federation is based on a PLATFORM for us all. I believe that by working together passionately with trust and friendship we will deliver more than what is expected. Together we can increase the success for our sport and to get sufficient revenue to run the European Dragon Boat Federation professionally and ethically.

My VISION 

This PLATFORM, based on six MILESTONES, approved by the EDBF Congress with my election in 2017, represents our vision and our guidelines to increase the appeal of Dragonboating in Europe. I am convinced that in realising this vision, in partnership with the EDBF Member Federations and with the support of the Executive Committee, of the Council and of the Race Officials, our sport will enter an exciting new era of growth that will encourage more young people becoming athletes, increase the potential audience for our sport.

Thank you for your support.
Claudio Schermi – EDBF President


Canottieri EUR

Presidente del CANOTTIERI EUR

Entrate in acqua e dominatela pagaiando. La canoa è uno sport completo, adatto ad Atleti e Amatori, Adulti e Bambini, Uomini e Donne, che mette in contatto diretto con la natura. È uno dei nostri motivi di vanto per la tradizione storica del nostro club, affiliato alla Federazione Italiana Canoa Kayak dal 1984, poi alla Federazione Italiana Canottaggio e alla Federazione Italiana Dragon Boat. Dal 1996 ha ottenuto anche l’affidamento di Centro Avviamento allo Sport del CONI. Sono quasi trent’anni che sotto la guida del fondatore e Presidente Claudio Schermi facciamo avvicinare i ragazzi alle discipline sportive del remo, della pagaia e del Dragon Boat sul laghetto dell’EUR.

Il Circolo vanta un palmares di oltre 50 titoli di Campione d’Italia con partecipazioni alla squadra nazionale e partecipazioni a livello Continentale, Mondiale ed Olimpico

Discipline

La potenza delle braccia si alterna nell’acqua a colpi di pagaia a doppia pala. Nel kayak la propulsione vertiginosa e le manovre rapide e agevoli vi daranno emozioni uniche.

La forza del gruppo viaggia su imbarcazioni di 12 m con la testa e la coda a forma di dragone, a ritmo scandito dal tamburino, per vivere l’impeto di 2000 anni di tradizione. Dragon Boat è la più grande delle imbarcazioni da remo, con la capacità di ospitare 20 pagaiatori insieme, per provare una disciplina sportiva diffusa in tutto il mondo.

Il valore della tradizione vive nei Rowing small group. Velocità e resistenza vi aspettano su barche dalla forma estremamente affusolata, nella quale tagliare l’acqua e il vento con l’adrenalina che scorre nelle braccia.

Per gli amanti degli sport di squadra in acqua con la palla, questo è il massimo. Imparate le regole e le tecniche di gioco con i nostri istruttori, destreggiatevi con la canoa in ogni condizione acquatica e fate canestro in una porta sospesa due metri sul livello dell’acqua, protetta dagli avversari. Non vorrete mai smettere.

Il Club organizza anche importanti manifestazioni che sono entrate nella tradizione sportiva cittadina e grandi eventi come i Mondiali di Dragon Boat 2002 e gli Europei ’98, oltre ai Campionati d’Italia in Canoa per disabili nel ‘93 e nel ‘94, tre gare di Coppa Europa di Dragon Boat, numerose giornate dei Campionati d’Italia di Canoa Polo in ogni serie: la A, la A1 e la B. Nel 2013 si organizzeranno i Campionati d’Italia di Dragon Boat il prossimo 12 e 13 ottobre al Laghetto dell’EUR.