JA Azerbaijan announces the start of the JA Company Program, which will substitute the old Student Companies program in JAA schools. The program covers actual steps of setting up a company and its departments; defining the roles of leadership and employees; developing departments’ and company business plans; and output producing and selling.
The program will be conducted simultaneously for SEE, SEBE and CEBEP program schools. In December 2008, selected teachers will receive one-day training program on the new program materials ...
JA Azerbaijan announces the start of the National Management and Economics Competition for 2008/2009 academic year. Each school can nominate two teams of three members to participate in the elimination rounds. The group round for the School Economics Education Program (SEE) schools will be conducted on November 23 in
Baku
School #132 at 10 a.m. The School Economics and Business Education Program ...
October 31 2008, in Caspian Plaza Meeting Room, Hewlett Packard (НР) and Junior Achievement Azerbaijan hosted the opening of the
GET-IT
Training
Center for young entrepreneurs. Students, teachers, JAA program alumni, business community and media representatives attended the event. Established in JA Azerbaijan office (Caspian Business Center, Floor 7), the Center will be functioning within the HP GET-IT (Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT) Program, which provides professional IT in business management skills to young entrepreneurs, unemployed and students ...
September 27, 2008, at
Caspian
Plaza, the United States Agency of International Development (USAID), Chevron Khazar Ltd. and StatoilHydro Azerbaijan signed the Memorandum of Understanding to support the implementation of the School Economics Education (SEE) Program by Junior Achievement Azerbaijan in 230 schools of
Azerbaijan in 2008-2010. Within the Global Development Alliance (GDA), established between USAID, StatoilHydro and Chevron, the Memorandum envisages the implementation of SEE program activities that support business and economic education in
Azerbaijan ...
In August 2008, British Council and Junior Achievement Azerbaijan signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of the Skills@Work Challenge in 2008/9.
The Skills@Work Challenge is a national and international competition to encourage young people to use their skills in enterprising and innovative ways, ultimately increasing their employability and entrepreneurial flair. The contest is designed to deliver valuable entrepreneurial experience to students from twelve vocational and technical colleges in ...
Junior Achievement Azerbaijan had a great pleasure of cooperating with BP and partners, StatoilHydro, McDermott Caspian Contractors, and KCA Deutag within the Student Internship Program 2008. The project designed to provide hands-on work-readiness skills and help the participants decide about their careers, placed eight JA students in work environment with business professionals. During the one-week experience at StatoilHydro, McDermott, and KCA Deutag the students explored the companies’ business values, available professions, and business ethics...
While the world’s sport tensions heated in Beijing, sixteen young bright business minds challenged each other in
Colorado Springs, CO, United States for the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Global Business Competition awards. Junior Achievement Worldwide and HP Corporation brought together eight teams from Argentina, Azerbaijan, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Hong-Kong, United States, and
Poland, who passed through qualification rounds and semi-finals of the business Olympiad to compete in the final contest.
The HP Global Business Challenge (HPGBC) is based on JA Titan...
Colorado Springs, Colo. - JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement) has been awarded special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Special consultative status is granted to organizations with expertise in a particular field of activity covered by the Economic and Social Council. Through this status, JA is recognized as an important organization in issues relating to economic development as it relates to young people. Organizations with consultative status are allowed to participate, present written contribution and make statements to the Council...
Junior Achievement uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life. In partnership with business and educators, Junior Achievement brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential. Junior Achievement's unique approach integrates program materials, training, and support. Junior Achievement is the success bridge between education and business.
Junior Achievement provides teachers, and schools with concrete programmes, and allows students to learn how to put theory into practice and to understand what entrepreneurship is about. In this way students gain self-confidence and motivation, become proactive and learn how to work in a team. This is an important investment in Europe's future.
--- Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
Junior Achievement provides teachers, and schools with concrete programmes, and allows students to learn how to put theory into practice and to understand what entrepreneurship is about. In this way students gain self-confidence and motivation, become proactive and learn how to work in a team. This is an important investment in Europe's future.