IO Seminar in Trieste, Italy – Results

A Seminar for International Organizers was held from 4th to 7th of September in Trieste, Italy, by Italian Chess Federation, in cooperation with the European Chess Union, supported from FIDE development fund.

The objective of the Seminar was to educate and certify Organizers on an international basis.

Topics in the seminar covered the latest regulations of FIDE Events Commission: Events Regulations, Bid Procedure, Events Management, Calendar Regulations, Rating Regulations, Title Regulations, Identity Manual & Sponsorship Guidelines, Protocol for Events, as well as other FIDE regulations important for organizers like Guidelines for Organisers, General Regulations for Competition, Transfer Regulations, Registration of Players, and extract from Anti-cheating Guidelines, Financial Regulations and Code of Ethics.

The seminar contained also workshop activity that gave the chance to the participants to work in groups on organising a tournament. The groups had the chance to get hands-on a case study, to cooperate and exchange ideas, while preparing the bid, the budget, the people management sheet, problem solving strategies, marketing ideas.

The Lecturer of the seminar was IO, IA Tomasz Delega, with cooperation with Panagiotis Nikolopoulos (Titles), Marco Biagioli (Rating and GDPR) and Franca Dapiran (Tie-breaks and Tournament Rules). Additionally Eva Repkova shared her experience from EYTCC 2019 in Bratislava and Ismini Tzegka helped to prepare workshop. The lectures and the exam were in English language.

A total of 20 participants from 13 federations (MKD, ROU, LTU, CRO, AZE, GRE, AUT, ITA, SRB, BLR, SVK, RUS, GER) attended the seminars. Out of them 19 participated in the exam and 15 successfully passed:

Lecturer, IO, IA Tomasz Delega (POL)