Regional Welcome-center opens at the University

16:41, October 1, 2019

This center will help to develop tourism and eco-culture among the youth of Ural

On September 27, which we celebrate as the Tourism Day in Russia, Regional Welcome-center opened in the university. This is a cluster of student tourism aimed at providing the students of the university with a new touristic product. 

“We take all the touristic activities, which are present at UrFU and combine them. We are telling students that it is easy and cool to travel and they can do it at the Ural Federal. The three main words of our center, a motto, – Love, Youth, Ural. Thus, we will be working in these three directions” – says the project coordinator Sergey Sergeyev at the Welcome-center opening ceremony.

In detail, Welcome-center will be operating in seven different dimensions. These include student tourist trips around and outside of Russia, adaptation of foreign students and students from other cities and areas in Yekaterinburg. In addition, Welcome-center will be organizing cultural and sports activities, give actualization and promotion to the culture and history of Ural, assist in developing eco-culture among youth and in mass media.

This project – Welcome-center – will also play a big role in the World Summer Universiade 2023, which will take place in Yekaterinburg and of which UrFU will be one of the organizers. 

“We have a volunteer center, which is able to work on the most difficult tasks. Thankfully to Welcome-center’s capacities, dynamics, and self-updating, these two structures will provide our students with a tough ground to work on those mega-events that are awaiting us in the near future” – pointed out the First Vice-Rector Dmitry Bugrov.

At the moment, the structure of Wecome-center includes such organizations as Everest, SAPKINU, ‘Your Weekend’ projects, ‘Culture Day’ and Trip to Trip, and also ‘Rifey’ and ‘Romantic’ Tourist Club. 

Apart from the ceremonial part, students participated in Welcome-center activities, met its organizations, and listened to lectures about the development of youth tourism and eco-culture.