CoWAY - Collaboration Gender Way of Coastal Rowing

Since ancient times, sports have been interwoven to the physical and spiritual well being of human communities, a fact that highlights the connection of sports to society and its needs. Nowadays, several sport disciplines have been developed, however, progress in the field of training and coaching regarding gender and diversity issues are slowly taking place. Coastal Rowing is a sport born in the second half of the 90s in France and has since gained prominence in Europe and beyond. World Rowing-the international rowing federation-has set the goal to make it an Olympic sport at the Los Angeles Olympic Games (2028). Additionally, World Rowing has issued the Women in Coaching Toolkit (2022) which promotes gender equality in coaches. The CoWAY project (Collaboration Gender Way of Coastal Rowing) aims to render coastal rowing an infra-gender team sport by providing training and a series of activities that will valorize gender collaboration, thus contributing to fostering diversity and inclusion in the field. 4 nautical clubs located in Italy, Slovenia, Greece and Croatia are uniting their forces to bring meaningful changes in the way coastal rowing is practiced, thus maximizing the impact of the CoWAY project at national and European level. All 4 partners are pioneers in developing coastal rowing in their communities, with two of them reaching up to 100 registered members (IT, GR) and two of them counting 100+ members (SI, HR). CoWAY promotes participation in sports and places nautical clubs at the core of the debate on gender equality and diversity in coastal rowing. Activities: -4 local training programs for gender collaboration, -1 indoor rowing “CoWAY relay race competition” and 1 “CoWAY endurance rowing-marathon”, -CoWAY International Camp -1 business intelligence tool to data discovery The project is divided into three work packages, namely Project management (WP1), Implementation of the main project activities (WP2) and Dissemination and visibility (WP3).