UNITED NATIONS INTERAGENCY GAMES 2015

UNITED NATIONS INTERAGENCY GAMES 2015

The UN Internal Games (IAG) held its 42nd edition on the Costa Daurada. These games allow employees and retirees of the United Nations agencies and other organizations to know each other through sports in order to improve mutual understanding and working relationships.

Always Group handled the challenge for the second time (after 2013 sucess, but this time wanted to follow this value and led the organization of the games further, offering a project based on agreements with private partners (national and local) and involvement of public ORGANISMOS to make them feel participants in a global project, also achieving an innovative and economically sustainable event.

Figures Games (CIFRAS)

The IAG is also one of the largest private international events that require a high organizational capacity. UN through sports reunites about nearly 1,500 people from 127 countries (unos1.200 are active employees), representing a success of participation, as it increased by 75% the 2014 edition.

LAS CIFRAS are really important. During the four days that last the Games, there were 7,700 overnight stays, a total of 28,000 meals were distributed about 30,000 cafes, more than 5,000 soft drinks and 15,000 bottles of mineral water.

The games are more than numbers . Of the nearly 1,500 attendees from the 127 countries, 209 are, in both cases, from Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by France with 109 and Austria with 66. In contrast, 21 countries such as the Seychelles, just They had a representative. Spain was attended by 21 participants.

The 42nd edition of the IAG brought together a total of 13 sports, the organization has a total of 55 sports surfaces (including running tracks, football fields, swimming lanes …), 10 chess tables and 8 goals as well as the golf course with 18 holes in REUSY have needed about 320 balls (football, basketball, tennis, table tennis), 600 flyers for badminton or 34 chessmen etc.

This number of participants generated a large direct and indirect economic impact in the area of influence. In fact, the UN IAG approached the € 1.4 million of direct economic impact in the area of influence of the Costa Daurada reached a figure close to € 2.8 million.