PROGRAMS
Youth Entrepreneurship
- JA Company Program – teaches students entrepreneurship by organizing and operating actual business enterprise.
- JA Global Marketplace – provides practical information about the global economy, international trade, and its effect of students’ lives.
- JA Economics – examines the fundamental concepts of micro-, macro, and international economics.
- JA Titan – introduces critical economics and management decisions through an interactive simulation.
Financial Literacy
- JA Banks in Action – teaches students the principles of the banking industry and introduces them to the challenges of successfully operating a bank in a competitive environment. The program also offers on-site internship.
- JAA Financial Planning Program – explores personal finance and students’ education and career options based on their skills, interests, and values. The program demonstrates the roles that budgeting, investing, credit, and insurance plan in securing financial stability.
- JAA Insurance Education Program – teaches the fundamentals of insurance industry through training and on-site job training.
Work-Readiness Skills
- JA Business Ethics – uses hands-on classroom activities to foster ethical decision-making in students as they prepare to enter the workforce.
- JA Success Skills – teaches students work-readiness and helps them develop personal strategies to achieve lifelong learning pursuits and career opportunities.
- JA Job Shadow – places students in work places and provides work-readiness education and career perspectives.
Information Technologies in Business
- JAA e-Company Program – provides specific training program on creating and managing an online enterprise.
- JAA Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT – teaches the use of information technologies in daily business activity.
Business Capacity-Building
- JAA Fundamentals of Market Economy – community-based course that teaches the use of basic economics concepts in daily life
- JAA SME Development Program – provides community-based business start-up and capacity building activities
Educational Resource Development
- Training of Trainers Program on Economics – materials and methodology
- JA Economics Textbook – approved by the Ministry of Education for 10th and 11th grades
- JA Company Program – materials and methodology
- JA Business Ethics – materials and methodology
- JA Job Shadow – materials and methodology
- JA Global Marketplace – materials and methodology
- Online JA Business Ethics Center – a web-portal that offers distance learning on business ethics
- Business Capacity-Building Resources – materials and practical tool
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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.