Assembly

2024 World Para Fencing - Sport Congress

City	Pisa San Ranieri Hotel (Cristallo - meeting room) Via Filippo Mazzei, 2, 56124 Pisa PI, Italy
Nation	Italy
Date	Nov 11, 2024
Timezone of venue	Europe/Rome (GMT 1)
Participation	INTERNATIONAL OPEN Quota
Quota	The order of the incoming entries decides about the participation. 3 Per club / federation
Federation	World Abilitysport
Organizer	World Abilitysport - Wheelchair Fencing
Contact	World Abilitysport HQ, Aylesbury Campus, Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PD, UK Local Organizers: Italian Fencing Federation – US Pisascherma ASD “The Leaning Tower World Cup” Organizing Committee
Further information	https://iwas.ophardt.online/en/widget/event/588 View entries and results
Entries	Entries to: https://iwas.ophardt.online/ until Nov 11, 2024, 10:00:00 AM Central European Standard Time only by: Club , National federation Cancel until Nov 11, 2024, 10:00:00 AM Central European Standard Time E-Mail: info@worldabilitysport.org

Begin		Ends		Events					allowed	Quota	Entry fee
11.11.	09:30		17:00	None	open		I	Senior	1925 - 2011		£60.00

Event begin		Description
11.11.	09:30	Registration Opens
11.11.	10:00	Congress opens
11.11.	12:30	Lunch Break
11.11.	13:30	Congress restarts
11.11.	15:00	Tea & Coffee break
11.11.	15:20	Congress resumes
11.11.	17:00	Congress ends

Payment

Payment	Surcharge		Remarks
Invoice	-	-	The invoices are generated after the event based on actual results

Accomodation

Delegates that are not already attending the World Cup, will be accommodated in the Congress venue at the San Ranieri Hotel where possible. The Marriot AC Hotel Pisa will be used as a secondary option and transport will be provided to the Congress.
Accommodation can be booked using the LOC spreadsheet attached to the information email.

Catering

Cafeteria is done by a commercial food service.

Remarks

REGISTRATION

Registration Fee is £60 per country.

Only mandated members/individuals can attend the Congress.
Please ensure signed mandates are returned to info@worldabilitysport.org to register your organisation.
One voting, one non-voting delegate and one translator, if necessary, are eligible to attend per Member.
Additional delegates must be requested directly to World Abilitysport to attend in the capacity of observers.

Please register your attendance to the Congress on Ophardt
https://iwas.ophardt.online/

DELEGATE PACKAGE

Double Room Rate (per person, per night) - €140.00
Single Room Rate (per person, per night) - €190.00

(Please note this applies to delegates arriving to Pisa for the Congress only.
The rate includes airport transfers and full board accommodation.)

TRANSPORT
For those attending that are not already at the World Cup, transfers to and from Pisa International airport (Galileo Galilei Airport) will be arranged for you. Delegates will be transported together where possible, therefore there may be a short wait before departing for the hotel.

VISAS
Information about visa requirements to Italy can be found here:
http://www.esteri.it/visti/index_eng.asp
Should you need assistance to apply for entry visa to Italy (e.g. letter of invitation), please provide the following details to the Organizer Committee as soon as possible to
pisaworldcup@gmail.com

- full name as in passport
- nationality
- function in the team
- passport number
- passport expiry date
- copy of passport

It is the responsibility of the delegation to check their visa requirements for the host country and to ensure the process is managed in a timely manner.

AT THE MEETING

Please ensure the voting delegate attending the meeting has access to a wifi-connected device (laptop/tablet/smartphone) to allow them to join the online voting system.
The link to the voting system will be securely sent only to the email address supplied in your mandate forms – please ensure the person/s attending the meeting has access to this email account.

FINANCES

PAYMENT INSTRUCTION
Invoices will be generated for registration fees following the Sports Congress.
The following payment reference must be used for all bank transfers:
SportsCongress *NATION* as well as the invoice number supplied.

REGISTRATION FEES
Registration fees will be invoices and must be made to World Abilitysport in Sterling (GBP/£) by bank transfer.

DELEGATE RATES
Delegate Rates for the Delegate Package must be made to the Local Organising Committee in Euro (€) by bank transfer at the details below:
Bank name: Banca Popolare di Lajatico, Filiale Pisa 2
Bank address: Via Luigi Bianchi, 3 – 56123 Pisa, Italy
Account name: US Pisascherma
Address: Piazzale dello Sport – 56122 Pisa, Italy
Account number: 00000002869
IBAN: IT27U0523214001000000002869
Swift (BIC): BLJAIT3LXXX