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HP and JA Azerbaijan Open Training Center for Young Entrepreneurs
Date published: Feb 11 2009
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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.

The Center is to be used by youth from Baku and the regions and will introduce IT skills necessary in operating a business. HP Corporation equipped the Center with 11 laptops, a printer, a multi-media projector, and photo-techniques, provided wireless communication, as well as trained JA Azerbaijan staff member to teach the program through the intensive Training of Trainers program.

“HP initiative creates opportunities for youth, who wish to establish or already has own businesses. This is extremely important for small business owners to give a successful start to their businesses,” notes Vusal Khanlarov, JA Azerbaijan Executive Director.

Following the official ceremony, Mr. Khanlarov and Head of HP Representation in Azerbaijan – Mr. Rufat Hajialibayov, invited the event participants to the Center. “GET-IT promotes new technologies and serves to increase the efficiency of the youth activity,” mentioned Mr. Hajialibayov at the event. “The program will help participants to understand how IT skills can be applied in entrepreneurial activity. This is the second HP GET-IT Center opened in Azerbaijan – the first initiative has been realized in Baku in 2007 together with the local NGO MADAD.”

Implementing the program, HP follows to stimulate the entrepreneurship and opening new workplaces for young people in age of 25; according to European Union for 2006, 5 millions (18%) of young Europeans are unemployed. In GET-IT program also participate public organizations and NGOs from Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Finland, France, Ukraine, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. In the nearest future GET-IT will be integrated into educational programs of 35 NCOs of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), presenting quick IT-solutions to business issues that arise in financing, management, and marketing.

Junior Achievement also successfully cooperates with HP on its worldwide Global Business Challenge (HPGBC) competition since 1995. In Azerbaijan, JA student-teams succeeded to finals of HPGBC four times and became champions in 2007.

About HP
HP is a world’s leading IT company, which services include printers, personal computers, program maintenance, and IT solutions that help both users and companies to simplify work with information technologies. Additional information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available on official web site www.hp.com; information about GET-IT can be found at www.hp.ru and www.graduate-training-through-it.net  
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