From the beginning of September until Monday, October 2, 32 teams made up of 200 employees of the E.ON company crossed the Via Transilvanica, the first long-distance tourist route in Romania. In total, 11 million steps were taken by all those who participated, totaling 8,300 kilometers.
The road was strewn with challenges, but the participants supported each other and found themselves on the “road that unites”. Whether they walked parts of the route or cycled, the experience on Via Transilvanica was energizing.
The “Energia E.ON X Via Transilvanica” project was born from a discussion between colleagues who understood how much it means to believe and put your soul into what you do, how much energy it gives you to be involved in projects that can transform over time, with small but sure steps, the world we live in.
Each team and its leader followed defined routes, at the end of which they handed over the baton to other teams, and thus the Via Transilvanica route was covered in its entirety for 32 days. The teams were made up of enthusiasts of hiking and outdoor activities such as running, cycling and climbing, but also of colleagues who were on their first experience of this kind.
They also left their mark on the Via Transilvanica through volunteering activities carried out in several isolated villages they passed through or through the energy lessons held in schools, during Community Days. The Inspire Days events, where surprise guests shared their life experience, also had a special place in this endeavour.
“Our story with the partners from Tășuleasa Social is already one with tradition, in which together with our customers we completed 200 km of the 1,400 of Via Transilvanica. This is a project that I loved from the first moment and I am very happy with what my colleagues managed to do from an idea. Now, at the end, I am grateful for all this energy that I gathered in this project,” says Claudia Griech, general director of E.ON Energie Romania.
“We are the first company that had the courage to get involved in supporting this project by mobilizing employees and stimulating them to discover and live directly, directly, the experience of an exceptional route. We hope that other companies will take over the baton of this project and carry on the spirit of Via Transilvanica,” says Ioan Şandru, deputy general director of E.ON Energie Romania, one of the initiators of the “Energia E.ON X Via Transilvanica” project.
“I congratulate the E.ON company for the initiative and for taking this sustainability partnership forward. And to reward E.ON employees, who crossed it, we offer a traveler’s certificate. It is a symbolic award, dedicated to the E.ON team , which managed to complete a route recently awarded by the European Commission in Venice. We thank E.ON for taking an extraordinary initiative to get to know your country in a different way and we are grateful to be partners for sustainability,” points out Tibi Useriu, representative of the Tășuleasa Social Association.
At the end of this experience on Via Transilvanica, all the kilometers traveled by the E.ON teams will be converted into kWh, which will be donated to an institution or organization within the Give Light campaign, which we will continue this year around the winter holidays.