Alekta, Burim, Drenusha, Bajram are managers at KEDS today. Ten years ago, they were students of a new project that was starting for the first time in Kosovo, KEDS Academy. Back then, for many young Kosovans, was being laid the foundation of a program that would give them the opportunity to start their professional journey even without graduating.

From then until today, more than 500 students have graduated and been certified in the most important academy in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility. This is because the 10th generation is being trained and the program is completing a full decade this year.

Undoubtedly, one of the key pillars that has kept the program moving and evolving are the people themselves and the good relations of cooperation that have been established over the years with professionals, students, and pupils who have gone out of the academy fully trained and more confident in themselves.

Our close collaborators of the program continue to be the University of Pristina, where the KEDS Academy students come from, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, who continue to motivate the students of vocational secondary schools to apply to the program, and the staff from Bogazici University of Turkey who travel to Kosovo to hold lectures with the students admitted to the program. Students are also trained by KEDS professionals, during part of the lectures and during the practical part, where the company's professionals mentor the new students.

The Training Center is the location where the practical part is held for the high school pupils, while the students are located in different departments of the company depending on their interest, as well as the needs of the company.

To further support the participants the program usually allows students who come from different municipalities of Kosovo, to complete the practical part in the municipalities which they come from.

KEDS Academy has been trying to narrow the unemployment gap that has been created in Kosovo by enabling the creation of connecting bridges between knowledge in theory and its actualization in the workplace.

Today the graduates of KEDS Academy, from the first generation onwards are employees at KEDS and KESCO, many of them have managed to advance and take leading and very important positions in the company.

Over the years, "KEDS Academy" has won different awards in Washington, London and Stevie Awards in Paris as the best activity in the field of corporate social responsibility for the changes it has brought to Kosovar society through professional training of young people.

Even today, the program continues to be an open door of opportunities for the young men and women of Kosovo. The 10th generation is halfway through its journey and very soon the pupils and students who prove to be more capable during the internship will also have the opportunity to be employed in the company.

In addition to employment in the company, students have achieved great success in further education as well. Dozens of them have managed to win scholarships from renowned European and world universities.  These evident results have made KEDS Academy a pinpointed program for Kosovar students.