The students and administration representatives of the Georgian Technical University met with Mamuka Khabareli and the members of the organizing committee of the 2025 European Winter Youth Olympic Festival.
The purpose of the meeting was the participation of the GTU students as volunteers in the 2025 European Winter Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF).
The chairman of the organizing committee, Mamuka Khabareli, shared with students the information about the sports activities of the European 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Festival, competition locations, and new modern infrastructure, such as biathlon, cross-country skiing and skating rinks, ice palaces, which are located in Bakuriani, Tbilisi and Batumi; They talked about the work done and plans and also explained to the young people how important it is to develop Olympism in the country. As he said, from 2025, Georgia will be the seventh country in Europe to host important events of the European Youth Olympic Festival in summer and winter sports.
As Tsotne Machavarian, Assistant Manager of the Volunteers Department of the Organizing Committee, noted, holding the European 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Festival at a high level depends a lot on the full resolution of organizational issues, in which the participation of volunteers is important. He noted that 800 volunteers will cooperate with the Winter Olympic Festival, to whom highly qualified Georgian and foreign trainers will conduct several trainings in both theoretical and practical matters.
According to the 2025 organizing committee information, Winter Youth Olympic Festival, those wishing to volunteer who have already turned 18, including December of the current year, must complete the appropriate registration at the
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Those who meet the conditions of volunteering at the Olympic Festival will be selected as volunteers.
According to Archil Ioseliani, coordinator of the sports department of the Department of Public Relations, Culture and Sports of GTU, students of the Georgian Technical University will be interested in the possibility of volunteering in the 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Festival and will take this task responsibly.
“In addition to the fact that the winter youth festival will remain an indelible memory for our students selected as volunteers, the skills and experience that the young people will acquire at the high-ranking tournament, as well as the certificate that will be issued to them, will certainly be useful in the future. Furthermore, volunteers will be provided with luxury branded sports clothes and accessories, the best living conditions, and food, and after the competitions, they will be able to engage in sports activities, have fun in the fun zones and recreational spaces, make new contacts, and make new Georgian and foreign friends. It is also important that the organizing committee constantly renews the volunteer bases and, depending on the need, will cooperate with trained volunteers in the future, and the best ones, as they mentioned, will be offered employment,” said Archil Ioseliani.
The European Youth Olympic Festival is a continental competition for young athletes, which has been held under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (EOC) since 1991. In 2015, Georgia hosted the Summer Youth Olympics for the first time, and in November 2020, by the decision of the European Olympic Committee, Georgia was officially awarded the status of host of the 2025 European Winter Youth Olympic Festival.