Sponsors and partners
The national competitions are run by an association, on small budgets and by volunteers. Sponsors are the reason they exist and the reason a Romanian champion reaches the world stage.
Official partners
Not sponsors. These are the people who run the competitions alongside the chapter, year after year: they bring the venue, the equipment, the competitor training and the people who make the event happen.
Official partner
Barista School
The Bucharest barista school founded in 2012 by Silvia Constantin — the year is written in the logo itself: “Since 2012”. A good part of Romania's national champions came out of it — among them Sebastian Ioan Fărcaș, latte art champion four years running, and Alexandru Niculae, Romania's only world champion. It runs competitor training and provides the space and equipment for practice.
Official partner
First Coffee
A Bucharest specialty coffee shop on Str. Băniei, opened in 2014 — “Where Bucharest’s Coffee Journey Began”, as they put it. Co-organiser of the Bucharest Coffee Festival, where the national championships are held, and host of the 2022 National Roasting Championship.
Three tiers
Diamond, Gold and Silver — for each competition separately and, on top of those, for the festival.
Diamond
Gold
Silver
The exact contents of each tier and the investment are shared on request, matched to the competition you want to back.
What can be supported
Sponsoring a competition
The three tiers apply to each national competition separately. A sponsor can back a single competition — Latte Art or Cup Tasters, say — or several.
Sponsoring the festival
The same three tiers exist for the host event, where the audience is broader than the professional community.
Exhibition stand
Exhibition space for roasters, importers, equipment makers and suppliers. Contracted separately from the sponsorship tiers.
In-kind sponsorship
Equipment, coffee, milk, consumables, transport, space. For a competition, an espresso machine or a set of grinders can weigh more than a sum of money.
Sponsors
Why it is worth it
The audience that matters in coffee
In the room sit baristas, roasters, café owners and importers — the people who decide what equipment and what coffee get bought next year.
A direct road to the worlds
National champions represent Romania at the world championships. A sponsor of a national competition ties its name to a road that ends on the world stage.
The money goes back into education
The competitions are run by an association, not a company. What is raised supports competitor preparation, judge training and educational events.
Who has supported us
The partners of the coming edition will be published here once the contracts are confirmed.
Let's talk
Tell us what interests you and we will send the right package, with everything it includes and what it costs.