Arte e Cultura
The Fourth Tour of the International Team "Follow Up Siberia!" Has Visited Altai
The program "Follow Up Siberia!" is based on a global contest "Part of Siberia in my area", aimed to find similarities between the place where the participants live and Siberia . More than 900 people from all around the world took part in the fourth tour contest. Bloggers won a trip to Altai, where they could make their opinion about the region.
The winners were:
- blogger Frank Coronado ( Mexico );
- student Stefanos Addimando ( Greece )
- photographer Stefano Ferro ( Australia );
- Instagram-blogger Gemma Baker ( England );
- photographer Jörg Nicht ( Germany );
- journalist Natalie Deduk and photographer Robson Cadore ( Brazil ).
The aim of the tour of the project was to introduce to the foreign participants authentic and modern Siberia . The team visited natural sights of Altai, took part in the ethnic musical instruments master-class and visited the Russian bath (banya). International participants went downhill skiing and snowboarding and explored the neighborhood on snowmobiles. They met locals to get a comprehensive understanding of the region.
The participants' perceptions of Siberia were shared in the official accounts of the project in social media and on the tour members' accounts. As a result, the team members became ambassadors of Siberia .
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is a digital cross-cultural project centered on an international online contest which started one year prior to the Winter Universiade 2019 and will last until its closing in March 2019 . For more info please visit followupsiberia.com.