Youth Programs
Donor(s): StatoilHydro, United States Agency for International Development, Chevron
Associate Donor(s): Baker & McKenzie, American Chamber of Commerce, Bakcell
Program Name: School Economics Education Program (SEE)
Program Goals by Target Groups:
• Teachers – Train teachers from 230 schools on teaching economics, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work-readiness
• Students (age 15-17) – Provide students with hands-on opportunities to learn economics, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work-readiness through training sessions, operating actual business, participation in national and international competitions, job interviews, and job shadow
• Ministry of Education – Assist the Ministry of Education in policy-making and re-training to install Junior Achievement Economics curriculum in high schools nationwide
Donor(s): BP and Co-ventures
Program Name: Community Economics and Business Education Program Phase II (CEBEP II)
Program Goals by Target Groups:
• Municipalities – Help 5 regional municipalities to establish social enterprises that will contribute to their financial sustainability and address a range of social challenges
• Teachers – Train teachers from 15 schools on teaching economics, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work-readiness
• Students (age 15-17) – Provide students with hands-on opportunities to learn economics, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work-readiness through training sessions, operating actual business, participation in national and international competitions, job interviews, and job shadow
• Students (age 17) – Provide students in senior grades with additional training on subjects necessary for college admission and conduct counseling on career choices
Donor(s): Bakcell
Program Name: Introduction to Mobile Telecommunications Business (IMTB)
Program Goals by Target Groups:
• Students (age 18-22) – Teach college students the essentials of mobile telecommunications business through hands-on training on work-readiness and mobile telecommunications, on-site job experience, and participation in international student companies exhibition
Donor(s): British Council
Program Name: 2010 Skills@Work Challenge (S@W)
Program Goals by Target Groups:
• Students (age 15-18) – Help vocational school students to participate in the national and international enterprise competition, where they will solve given challenges through creation of a business
Donor(s): MetLife Foundation
Program Name: JA Exploring Economics (JAXE)
Program Goals:
• The research and development project will result in adaptation of the JA Exploring Economics program that helps students better understand the impact they have on the economy as consumers and taxpayers, and teaches important personal financial lessons around spending, saving, and investing |
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.