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Project title: Upgrading of the inventory for orienteering Aim: Purchase of the sports inventory for orienteering for organising of contests. Implementer of the project: society DR-KRASTS Address: Rural territory of Grobiņa, rural municipality of Medze, 1a Priežu Street Contacts: Jānis Bethers, phone number: +37129199411 [email protected] http://dr-krasts.grobina.lv/index.php/lv/ Total costs of the project: 13017.01 EUR Public funding: 11715.32 EUR About the submitter of the project in a nutshell: Society DR-KRASTS was founded on October 15, 2011. When the society was not founded yet, sports enthusiasts engaged in the orienteering sports operated in the structure of the former Pupils Interest Centre of the District of Liepāja. Already since 1990 eight orienteering contests took place each season. Aim of the society: promote and develop sports tourism and orienteering sports as form of active recreation for school children, families and people of all age groups. Board of the Society consists of 4 persons. Project description: From 50 to 120 participants take part in the contests organised by the Society. School children are the most active. Till the implementation of the project, punchers were used in the contests and with the help of punchers participants checked-in in the checkpoints. To modernize and improve course of the competition, contemporary technologies were purchased within the frameworks of the project – electronic results processing device Sportident that includes software, forest station, individual chips of the participants, radio checkpoints, transmitters and finishing time device. Also to diversify the contest places within the frameworks of the project several maps were developed in the rural territories of Grobiņa, Aizpute and P