Cultural, educational and business ties between Singapore and Ireland will get an unconventional boost from a new initiative, ‘Crossing waters, crossing cultures’, which will send four Temasek Polytechnic students to Ireland to participate in activities leading up to the departure of the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) from Galway, Ireland, on Saturday.
The initiative, launched by Singapore’s Irish Business Association (IBA), together with Irish/Chinese Volvo Ocean Race team Green Dragon, and supported by the Embassy of Ireland in Singapore, will also see the students joining a one-week sail training voyage along the south-west Irish coast on a vessel operated by educational charity Ocean Youth Trust Ireland – with support from the embassy and Kerry Consulting