The expedition constitutes of staff, students and assistants from various faculties of the University, thus representing a true overview of the business of one university and pointing towards the fact that even the most complex projects become feasible with enough work and effort. They are also motivated with the idea of promoting the University of Rijeka as a young university open to new ideas, and with the challenge of Kilimanjaro itself as the highest peak in Africa.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest freestanding mountain in the world. Through its history, it has been an inspiration to many – most will remember Hemingway who, in his ˝Snows of Kilimanjaro˝ presents this mountain as the last goal of its hero and a path to immortality. With its exotic cultures and flora and fauna, Africa itself represents a boyhood dream. In order to ascend to nearly 6000 metres, walking for hundreds of kilometres through the scorching plains of Africa, through jungles, forests and rocky terrain to reach the snowy and icy Kibo crater, the summit of the Kilimanjaro vulcan, the six members of the expedition will undergo gruelling mental and physical preparations.  
The value and importance of this expedition has, in addition to the University, been recognised by the City of Rijeka and the mother faculties of the participants, and a whole array of local government units, institutions, private firms and enterpreneurs. 
In the name of the City of Rijeka as one of the sponsors, the head of the City's Department of Sport and Technical Culture, Veljko Karabaić, wished the Rijeka expedition all the best, stressing that the City of Rijeka has given its full support to this project – which will, considering the extensive preparations, end with a successful ascent to Kilimanjaro and confirm Rijeka as a city that has long ago acknowledged the value of alpinism as a sport.
More information on the expedition can be found on the expedition's website.
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