Sponsors & Partners
Gold Sponsor of the Europeans 2024 and the Official Partner of the Long Offshore Race: Garmin & Navionics
Garmin is a global company founded in 1989. Today, it is one of the most experienced developers and manufacturers of GPS technology. Garmin designs, manufactures, markets, and sells navigation, communication, and information devices and applications, most of which utilize GPS technology. The products are developed for use in automotive, outdoor, fitness, marine, and aviation sectors, as well as OEM applications on mobile platforms and through wireless technology.
As the world's most innovative and recognized manufacturer of marine electronics, Garmin has revolutionized life for sailors, mariners and boat enthusiasts everywhere with chartplotters, marine cartography, radar, autopilots, transducers and more.
Garmin relentlessly pursue innovation to create new products and markets that lead to growth opportunities. They continually reinvest in their people, facilities and equipment to focus on their long-term success and stability. Garmin's vision as a company is that corporate sustainability is an active pursuit. They strive to promote financial, environmental and societal stewardship. This means reducing risk, uncovering opportunities and creating long-term value for all their stakeholders.
“Garmin is committed to sustainability, and this commitment is reflected in our mission, vision and values. We measure our sustainability through environmental and social impacts, financial results and company leadership. We are committed to accomplishing what we say we will do and serving all of our stakeholders — including associates, business partners, communities, customers and shareholders — for the long term.”
Viking Line is a market-leading brand in passenger traffic on the northern Baltic Sea. It offers passenger services, recreation and cargo carrier services on it’s vessels Amorella, Gabriella, Rosella, Viking Cinderella, Viking Glory, Viking XPRS and on the new flagship Viking Grace.
Through strong commitment and concrete measures to reduce its climate impact, Viking Line has become a leading player in the field of sustainable tourism. Viking Line is passionate about climate-smart travel and is constantly seeking for new solutions that produce environmental benefits and reduced emissions, such as by running Viking Glory and Viking Grace on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and using our food waste as a raw material for biofuel.
“The Baltic Sea and its archipelagos hold special importance for us at Viking Line. Our roots are here, and many of our employees live along its shores. We are passionate about climate-smart travel and new solutions that produce environmental benefits. Reduced emissions, reduced food waste, new technology and clever choices in our everyday lives are good for the Baltic Sea.
Our sustainability journey began back in the 1980s and the sustainable choices are a part of all our daily operations. We are actively working to reduce emissions, such as by running our two newest vessels Viking Glory and Viking Grace on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and using our food waste as a raw material for biofuel. We also offer you as a customer to contribute by buying biofuel that matches your emissions. In turn, this will allow us to increase the purchase of biofuel for carbon-neutral journeys.”
The Official travel partner of ORC Europeans 2024
Ålandhotels is a leading player in the Åland tourist market with three hotels and three restaurants in Åland.
“Ålandhotels wants to convey traditions and culture of Åland with hospitality and good cuisine, by prioritizing local products according to season. We want to contribute to the positive development of Åland as a society and travel destination.
For us at Ålandhotels it is important to care for our guests and our environment. We acknowledge our environmental responsibility and strive for environmentally friendly heritage and practices in all areas of our business.”
- Keeping the Archipelago Tidy - Ålandhotels has started a cooperation with Keeping the Archipelago Tidy Association to promote sustainability and environmental awareness.
- Swan label - The Swan is the official Nordic Ecolabel. Ålandhotels uses the Swan label recommendations as a guideline in their hotels.
Daily sponsor - Short offshore & Provider of the original regatta headwear
Superyellow is a Nordic headwear brand located in Finland. It was founded in 2007 by three ambitious designers. Their aim was to create functional and sustainable headwear. Inspired by the harsh Nordic climate, the materials used in the beanies needed to be long-lasting and suitable for different seasons and weather conditions. Today, Superyellow is a leading headwear brand with over 200 retailers around the world.
The beanies are made in Finland from 100% merino wool, which is one of the best materials in the world due to its many great natural characteristics. In Superyellow beanies timeless, Scandinavian design is combined with high quality materials. The Superyellow ideology is simple: to create products that have great, long-lasting impact on people’s everyday lives but little impact on the environment.
“Sustainability is important for us in everything we do. For us sustainability means that we don’t harm people, animals or the environment, we don’t waste any resources and we continuously innovate new, more sustainable solutions. We create products that last long and have minimal environmental impacts.”
Origin by Ocean is a biochemical company founded in 2019 that produces algae-based functional ingredients to substitute existing chemicals with high carbon footprints.
Origin by Ocean's patented biorefinery process produces valuable bio-based chemicals for use in food, cosmetics, home and personal care products and textiles.
"We discovered that with the right process, we can remove marine overgrowth and transform them into ecological, healthy and oil-free ingredients for everyday consumer products. Every product would ease the chokehold of eutrophication."
Founded in 1992, the purpose of the John Nurminen Foundation is to save the Baltic Sea and its heritage for future generations. The Foundation’s projects improve the status of the Baltic Sea by reducing the nutrient load and environmental problems, such as eutrophication and nature loss, faced by the sea.
The Foundation’s tasks also include safeguarding, celebrating and communicating the stories and cultural heritage of the Sea. The work is steered by measurable results and impact. The Foundation’s operations are mainly funded by donations and grants.
Nordic Offset Oy is a climate responsibility expert company, founded in 2008. With extensive experience in various industries and a strong track record in climate consulting, the company is known as Finland's leading expert in carbon footprint management. Nordic Offset offers comprehensive tools and solutions to respond to the climate change challenges, develop climate-responsible operations and improve sustainability reporting.
The company acts as an expert partner in projects to achieve carbon neutrality, carbon negativity and net zero. Nordic Offset helps to determine the carbon footprint and the necessary emission reduction measures, to set ambitious emission reduction targets, to reliably offset remaining emissions and to support its clients in communicating and reporting on climate responsibility.
Visit Åland is Åland’s official tourist and member organisation and has about 260 members. Visit Åland’s main aim is to market Åland as a travel destination and to work with the local tourist industry to develop tourism in the Åland Islands.
The aims of the organisation include marketing and branding Åland as a travel destination, starting with member businesses’ interests, representing the tourist branch before the authorities, maintaining tourist information and encouraging member businesses to develop products, raise quality and undertake new projects in the tourist branch.
Read about Åland, its history, sights, culture, tips and much more on the Visit Åland website.
Keep the Archipelago Tidy Association is a Finnish environmental organisation for boaters and all those travelling in and around Finnish waterways. The association has been working for cleaner archipelago and lake nature since 1969. The organization aims to protect waterways and encourage everyone, both individually and collectively, to work towards cleaner waterways.
The Keep Archipelago Tidy Association's environmental activities are diverse and include environmental management, environmental communication, and various environmental projects. The organization is membership-based, and in addition to membership fees, its funding primarily consists of support from the Ministry of the Environment and collaborating partners.
In Finland the Ministry of Education and Culture is responsible for the development of education, science, cultural, sport and youth policies, and for international cooperation in these fields. The objective of the Ministry is to provide citizens with possibilities for personal development through education and cultural services, to guarantee the skills needed in the labour market, to reinforce the national culture, and to promote international cooperation. The Ministry of Education and Culture grants statutory state aid and discretionary subsidies for projects relating to education, research, culture, sport and youth work. The Ministry grants funds towards the cost of organisations' operations, the activities and construction of educational and cultural establishments, and for information society projects.
In the central government, the Ministry of Education and Culture is responsible for creating favourable conditions for sports and physical activity as well as for the reconciliation and development of sport policy. The work is carried out in cooperation with a range of different sectors.The Ministry of Education and Culture emphases the importance of sport and physical activity for people’s health and wellbeing as well as the role that sport and physical activity play in strengthening civil society and inclusion. Sport policy is designed to promote sport and physical activity and, through them, the wellbeing of the population, as well as competitive and performance sports and related civic activity. The principles for achieving the objectives are gender equality, non-discrimination, social inclusion, multiculturalism, healthy lifestyles, respect for the environment and sustainable development.