FIFA-2018 Volunteers Center is open

10:58, December 11, 2015

All objects in Ekaterinburg will be under the supervision of university volunteers

Preparation for the World Cup is entering an active phase - Ural Federal University opened FIFA-2018 Volunteers Center; the selection of the members will begin this summer.

On December 10, in the press center of Ural Federal University, the rector Victor Koksharov, the ambassador of the host city of the World Cup FIFA-2018 in Ekaterinburg musician Alexander Pantykin, as well as deputy head of the administration of Ekaterinburg Sergey Tushin, Minister of Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region Leonid Rapoport, the director of the Volunteers Center of UrFU "Volunteers of the Urals" Alexander Antimonov have launched FIFA-2018 Volunteers Center at UrFU.

According to the rector of Ural Federal University Victor Koksharov, the training of volunteers will be held with the active participation of other universities.

Director of the Volunteers Centre said that the volunteer program of the World Cup FIFA-2018 will consist of two separate programs: "Volunteers of the Organizing Committee" and "City volunteers".

Volunteers of the Organizing Committee will cooperate with the football teams, referees and FIFA official delegations at the airport, hotels, training bases and directly, at the stadium " Ekaterinburg Arena."

City volunteers of the Tourist Information Service will work at key transport hubs, such as airports, railway station, subway stations and the key points of pedestrian areas as well as cultural objects located in the central part of the city. They will inform visitors and residents about the championship, provide language services and help with navigation.

Volunteers of special objects will provide different target groups of the championship with information and language services in hospitals, police stations of the city and navigate to the parking.

The duties of the volunteers of the FIFA Fan Festival include the information support of e, navigation, language services and creation of an atmosphere of hospitality to all visitors of the festival.

It is planned that the number of volunteers will reach 3 000. The communication campaign will start in the second quarter 2016. Registration of volunteer candidates will start in the summer of 2016.

We would like to mention, that the activists of UrFU Volunteers Center had worked at the most important and large-scale events of the country, such as: XXVII World Summer Universiade in Kazan 2013, XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014, XVI World Championships FINA in Kazan, World Handball Championship and others.