Salim Cheniouni
Doha, 6 October
2019. On Sunday, Aspire Academy and Qatar Olympic Academy signed a Memorandum
of Understanding to develop administrative and technical staff as well as
students in Olympic education and sports.
The
agreement, that was signed by Director General Ivan Bravo on half of Aspire
Academy and Executive Director Saif Mohammed Al Nuaimi on behalf of the Qatar
Olympic Academy, aims to strengthen their relations and cooperation in the
fields of academic, sports, administrative, and technical development and
related sciences and knowledge. Present at the MoU signing were the top
management from Aspire Academy including, Deputy Director General, Mr Ali Salem
Afifa, Director of Education and Student Affairs, Mr Badr Al-Hay, Director of Corporate Services, Mr Ali Sultan Fakroo, Director of Sport and Strategy, Mr Markus Egger and Aspire Academy School Principal, Mr Jassem Al-Jaber,
while Dr Ali Al Bakri, Head of Athletes development and Mr Khaled Mohamed Al-
Qahtani, Head of Media and Marketing represented Qatar Olympic Academy.
This
collaboration focuses on developing coaches, experts and specialists in sports,
physical education and its applied sciences, through the establishment and
development of programs directly with Qatar Olympic Academy. Furthermore, it
includes joint work on holding workshops and programs in sports culture and
Olympic movement of students and administrators affiliated with Aspire Academy,
in addition to benefiting from the sports department program offered by the
Qatar Olympic Academy according to the needs of Aspire Academy in accordance
with regulations followed to obtain international certificates accredited by
the International Olympic Committee. “It’s timely that we are signing this MoU
during this wonderful time when Qatar as a country is celebrating the
achievements by Mutaz Barshim and Abderrahman Samba a few days ago in the IAAF
Athletics World Championships Doha 2019. Our objective is always to be
intertwined and linked to all sport organizations in Qatar and we always say
that they should use us as much as possible to do everything from working with
young kids starting in sports, to do elite training, to do coaching training,
to even do a strategic thinking administration. The Qatar Olympic Committee has
always been very supportive to us and I think that now bringing the Qatar
Olympic Academy into play gives us a platform where they can help us and we can
help them. As we always do at Aspire, we are focusing on the development of people
and that includes coaching, sport science, physiology, analytics and also some
pathways for our young athletes to be at some point connected to the Qatar
Olympic Committee,” Ivan Bravo, Director General Aspire Academy, commented on
the MoU.
“We very proud today
to sign this important Memorandum of Understanding with Aspire Academy which is
a leading academy in the field of Sports in Qatar, based on its crucial role in
student-athletes development for all national teams in different sports. This
agreement will help us implement educative and instructive workshops that will
help the academy student athletes and staff, as well as programs tailored for
Aspire Academy which will reflect positively on sports scene in Qatar,” said
Saif Mohammed Al Nuaimi, Executive Director of Qatar Olympic Academy.
“Aspire Academy becomes a shining trade mark
in the sky of Qatar sorts and worldwide through its graduates, whose
achievements put them on the high ranks of the world sports’ map. We,
at the QOA, are very delighted today to be able to finalize this agreement with
Aspire Academy that will unify efforts between our two academies in developing
Qatari athletes. And we will work hard to put forward important programs that
benefit our student-athletes who will represent the country in international
big events. This agreement will not be limited to developing student-athletes
only, but it will include administrators and coaches in Aspire Academy as well,
taking into consideration that the QOA programs cover all academic, Olympic and
sportive aspects and they are internationally recognized from higher
international instances,” Al Nuaimi added.