Support our teams in a sustainable journey

Hey there!!

We are a group of 35 students from the men’s and women’s football team of Wageningen University & Research. From the 25th of June to the 2nd of July 2023, we will be representing the Netherlands in the European Universities Championship in Tirana, Albania.

As Wageningen students, we are as passionate about sustainability as we are about football, so we decided to travel by bus to Albania in order to reduce our CO2 emissions.

Our delegation will be traveling 4.210km by bus in total, considering our trip to Tirana (Albania), and our travelling back to Wageningen (the Netherlands) afterwards. By doing this we will reduce our emissions in approximately 13 tons of CO2, which is 70% less when compared to flying. So even though a flight would be cheaper and faster, the environmental costs of it would be way higher.

By doing this we expect to set an example for other teams and groups that participate in international events: we can all be sustainable!!

Our travelling costs alone will be around €13.000,00 and on top of that we are also working on raising money for our registration fee, football uniforms and equipment.

During the past months we have been organizing ourselves to find financial support within the University and potential sponsors, but unfortunately we couldn’t form any partnership to fund our sustainable journey.

Therefore, we need your help to successfully implement our sustainable traveling plan. Every donation counts and will be deeply appreciated!!

If you can’t contribute financially, you would be also helping us enormously if you share our campaign and our Instagram accounts with your network. The women’s team ig is @wur_football_w and the men’s team ig is @wurfootballmen, you can also find the QR-codes in our YouTube video.

In case you are interested on discussing a possible partnership/sponsorship, feel free to contact us via GoFundMe, Instagram or email.