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Veliaj at the hearing with young people: Budget for 2022, focused on technology

Veliaj at the hearing with young people: Budget for 2022, focused on technology

The Municipality of Tirana continued the tour of hearings for the 2022 budget with young professionals of the city. During his speech, Veliaj emphasized that the 2002 budget dedicates the most important voice to the youth, including the projects for the revitalization of the Pyramid, the University Campus at the Agricultural University, the Zoo, the new sports fields and the running tracks in Farka Park. , Dry Lake, or professional runway at Artificial Lake.

"We will make the biggest investment in the field of information technology with the transformation of the Pyramid, where young people will have the opportunity not only to learn how to code or virtual reality, robotics, etc., but there they will also find a library and space for activities. We want the Pyramid to be the biggest home of youth. "If we say that youth is a priority, then we will invest the best property in the city, such as the Pyramid, for them," said Veliaj.

On the other hand, the mayor added that mini-centers like "TUMO" will be set up on university campuses.

"Tumo will open a center for the young people of Koder-Kamza, so that they do not come to Tirana to learn. We have a request from the Catalan Institute in Barcelona to open" Nano-Al "and a research center "Also, we are talking to Factory Berlin. So we have some schools of information technology and creative industry that we want to transfer to that Campus, so as not to treat it as a dormitory," said Veliaj, adding that the same The municipality also has a project for the Campus of the University of Tirana.

The Mayor emphasized the ambitious project of 100 new sports fields, which will be opened next year.

"We have a list of pitches that we want to turn into 100 small sports facilities. "We want each of you to give us a hand for this project," he said. Veliaj underlined the fact that the promise for the professional athletics track at the Lake has finally been kept. "Tirana has not had a professional athletics track for a long time and not only because Luiza Gega is the best, but there are also hundreds of other young people who do sports. Therefore, we have started the work for the athletics track at the lake, which will be more standard, "said Veliaj.

Another successful project in terms of a healthy lifestyle is that of the bicycle school for the age group 7-10 years.

We want to turn the bicycle school that we started as an "ad hoc" operation at the "Italia" Square only with volunteers, into a professional agency of the Municipality of Tirana. I know people are still cynical, but in fact the results are very impressive. We started 6 years ago with only 1% of the population having a bicycle, today we have moved to 10%. It is not yet Amsterdam and Copenhagen, but it is day and night from where we were before, especially for short distances, "declared Veliaj.

The year 2022 will have the largest investment budget for the city, with a fund of 82 million euros only from the revenues of the Municipality marking the increase of the investment budget by 37% compared to 2021. Tirana Polycentric with two neighborhoods of The new "5 Maji" and "KombinArt", the expansion of the river Lana and the Rings of Tirana are some of the projects where the work will be focused during the next year.