The Secretary General of the Olympic Committee of Kosovo, Besim Aliti, has presented plans for the creation of a special academy to prepare young people who will be engaged in the organization of the Mediterranean Games Prishtina 2030, stressing that the initiative aims to meet human resource needs.
Speaking about the concept of the academy and organizational needs, he emphasized that the focus will be on young people who have just completed their studies and have no work experience, who will be trained and later given the opportunity to be employed in organizational structures. According to him, the total number of people to be engaged is very large.
“We will, in cooperation with international partners, implement training, an academy to train young people in Kosovo, and these are fresh bachelor graduates… the goal is to educate in specific fields of the Mediterranean Games and to divide 360 national and 40 international staff… the minimum staff we need is between 800 and 1,000 full-time employees and 2,500 to 3,000 volunteers. So we are talking about mobilizing around 5,000 people for the Mediterranean Games,” Aliti said on SportCast.
He also highlighted the expected economic impact of these investments, saying they should not be seen as costs but as a circulation that returns to the country’s economy through employment and tourism.
“Absolutely yes. The costs that are created are not just costs… all those investments in infrastructure and human resources return to the business sector and the people of Kosovo through taxes. We should also consider a large influx of tourism during the Mediterranean Games, which represents indirect income for the economy,” he added.
