MISSION
The Centro Velico Caprera Foundation ETS, with its 150,000 students since 1967, is one of the best-known sailing schools in the Mediterranean. It pursues objectives related to the preservation of the marine environment and personal well-being through contact with the sea and the practice of sailing.
The main statutory purpose of the Centro Velico Caprera ETS Foundation is "To create, through the practice of sailing, a maritime education and consciousness, inspired by the traditions of Italian seamanship." Respect for well-established norms of life, inspired by a Spartan and essential style, the volunteerism of the Instructors, are all founding values, always recognized as essential, from the birth of the School until today. This is why Centro Velico Caprera is reputed, by those who have known it, to be not only a sailing school, but a "School of Sea and Life."
The School's volunteers pass on the historical, cultural, human and educational heritage built up over the years. Inspired by the principles of tradition, the Foundation is always looking toward growth and modernity while holding firm to safety as the indispensable cornerstone of all activities.
OBJECTIVES
The CVC Foundation is non-profit and has as its statutory objectives:
- To promote the education and instruction of the community to respect, protect and improve themarine environment and the environment in general;
- To promote research and scientific popularization in the various fields dealing with the marine environment and human activities related to the sea, including in collaboration with universities, research institutes or other entities;
- Organize activities of social interest with educational purposes of a cultural, artistic, tourist and recreational nature related to the sea;
- To carry out interventions aimed at safeguarding and improving the conditions of the environment;
- Recover, redevelop, and use public or private property, whether movable or immovable, to be subservient to activities consistent with the statutory purposes.
The activities of the Centro Velico Caprera ETS Foundation are governed by a Charter and reported in a Social Report.
VALUES.
The Centro Velico Caprera Foundation in adherence to its new legal status,
for the recognition and protection of its inescapable values, has produced three documents that together configure the foundation's cardinal ethical reference point.
57 YEARS OF HISTORY
The Centro Velico Caprera ETS Foundation, was established by the will of Lega Navale Italiana sez. of Milan and Touring Club Italiano (founding members of CVC), the association with legal personality "CVC - Centro Velico Caprera" and theAssociation of Volunteer Instructors and Students of Centro Velico Caprera Under the high patronage of the Italian Navy, in 1967 they received in concession from the Chief of Staff of the Navy Admiral Alessandro Michelagnoli, the land and military facilities of the southwestern part of the island of Caprera included between Punta Coda and the beautiful gulf of Porto Palma on which stood some old military buildings.
Touring Club Italiano is a nonprofit association that has been involved in tourism, culture and the environment for more than a hundred years. In 1894 a group of enlightened young Milanese entrepreneurs started a private, self-financed association, the Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano. The goal: to offer Members a network of contacts and a range of services to learn about, discover and travel Italy. Touring, which later changed its name to Touring Club Italiano, is credited with "inventing" tourism and making Italy in the early 1900s a real country, close and accessible thanks to early maps, guidebooks, signage and magazines on tourism. He is one of the two founders of the Centro Velico Caprera in 1967.
Founded in 1899, the Milan Section is the oldest and among the most numerous in Italy with nearly 2,000 members. The primary interest for our Section is the promotion of the sports of sailing and canoeing and their development also at a competitive level, especially among young people. At the nautical base in Dervio is based the Pier Carlo Bianchi Albrici Nautical Center, which aims to initiate people with disabilities into the sport of sailing. The Italian Naval League promotes the protection of the marine environment and inland waters and develops promotional, cultural, naturalistic, sporting and educational initiatives suitable for the achievement of the association's purposes.
The Allievi Association Centro Velico Caprera was founded in 1969 by Instructors and Students of CVCCentro Velico Caprera, the most important Italian sailing school) with the purpose of enabling its Members to enrich their nautical experiences after the school's courses and to continue to practice sailing in the same seafaring spirit known and appreciated at Centro Velico Caprera. The initial idea of the Association was Guido Colnaghi, one of the founders of the CVC.In 1972, the Student Association entered as a third member in the structure of the Centro Velico Caprera, joining the TCI (Touring Club Italiano) and the LNI (Lega Navale Italiana) section of Milan. In May 2014 it changed its name to: Association of Instructors, Volunteers and Students of the Centro Velico Caprera (AIVA-CVC), to better express how it is the "common home" for all "Caprerini," whether students, instructors or otherwise volunteers who lend their work for the school.
A POWERFUL ENGINE
The powerful engine of the Foundation has always resided in the exceptional resource of volunteers. President and members of the Executive Committee, but above all Instructors, Boatmasters and Shift Managers as well as Shore Assistants and Sailing Assistants lend their labor by making their time and professional skills available to the CVC in an exclusively non-paying capacity. There are more than 4,500 volunteers who have contributed to making the CVC not only the largest sailing training institution in our country, but a true internationally recognized role model.
Always been sustainable
AN ISLAND TO BE PRESERVED
The CVC is an undisputed forerunner of models of environmental sustainability as evidenced by the great attention paid already in the early 1960s during the design and construction of the facilities of its bases located on the island of Caprera. An accommodation facility capable of hosting more than 3,000 students per season, destined to become in the decades to follow a reference model for its exceptional integration into the surrounding environment with a very low environmental impact. CVC's commitment to environmental heritage, the ecosystem and people does not stop here and on the contrary looks ahead with the implementation of new dedicated activities such as Project M.A.R.E. and Project LIFE.
