Politehnica Timisoara continues its campaign to encourage blood donation and partners with BlooDoChallenge

Our club is proud to announce a national partnership with the BlooDoChallenge app, a tool that facilitates blood donation scheduling and actively distributes controlled information about donation and the high need for blood that blood centers face. As part of this partnership our club will offer, via the app, discounts in the official shop for those who donate, based on the document certifying the donation. There will also be an ongoing campaign, promoted in the app, whereby those who donate blood during the week of home matches can receive free entry tickets to Poli’s weekend match.

In the future we want to use our joint resources to facilitate communication between blood centres, retained donors, potential donors and local authorities, with the aim of increasing the number of new donors and retaining existing donors. We also plan to jointly support the Timisoara Regional Blood Transfusion Centre in the next period to digitise the donor registration process. Politehnica Timișoara is a national partner of BlooDoChallenge, any donor in the country can access the benefits offered by the club through the app (tickets to matches and discounts in the official shop).

BlooDoChallenge is an initiative of a group of young volunteers from Oradea, who wanted to bring together local communities around a mobile application on the topic of blood donation and providing information about donation. The initiative started from the participation in the international technology and entrepreneurship competition Technovation, which is held every year worldwide. Through the mobile app you can schedule yourself to donate blood, receiving reminder notifications about your appointment, but you can also receive up-to-date and controlled information about the donation process, donation modality, conditions and restrictions.

From April 2022, the BlooDoChallenge app also facilitates enrolment in the Stem Cell Registry, in collaboration with the National Registry of Volunteer Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors (RNDVCSH). Hematopoietic stem cells are cells capable of transforming into any other type of adult blood and immune cell. Patients with blood cancer or other severe haematological diseases urgently need a haematopoietic stem cell transplant. The chance of two people being a match is 1 in 500,000. Thus, the need for potential volunteer donors is very high, with the chance increasing with each registration.

Local or national BlooDoChallenge partners offer donors discounts or prizes to those who donate based on the points earned in the app with each donation. The app is available in both Google Play and the App Store.