Press release
Citibank and Junior Achievement Teach 4500 Students How to Become Entrepreneurs
19 Nov, 2012 12:25
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Press release
Citi Foundation, through Citibank Romania, supports with USD 50,000 a one-year in-school entrepreneurial education project
In
times of economic crises, when new business models, particularly those
leading to cost reductions, often emerge, it became even clearer that
entrepreneurship is important for economic growth, productivity,
innovation and employment. Hence, Citibank and Junior Achievement have
partnered to launch a new an in-school educational program: Be
Entrepreneurial, in order to initiate 4500 students aged 15-17 from
high-schools across the country to entrepreneurial thinking as well as
to encourage them to consider a business start-up later on.
With
the support of teachers and Citibank volunteer-employees, the program
will give students throughout the country the opportunity to better
understand how an enterprise works, to gain basic skills to run a small
business at the end of high school and to fit better in an economy
driven by the triple bottom line approach: economic, ecological and
socially conscious.
The program also includes a national business
plan competition to stimulate students' competitiveness and
competencies, in which students graduating the program will be able to
take the Enterprise Driving License national assessment, developed by
Junior Achievement Romania in partnership with the Ministry of
Education.
"As globalization reshapes the international economic
landscape and technological change creates greater demands to be met in
the world economy, entrepreneurship is believed to offer ways to help to
rise up to new economic, social and environmental challenges. Through
this partnership with Junior Achievement, we seek to provide students in
Romania with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage their
entrepreneurial aspirations", declared Tibor Pandi, General Manager of
Citibank Romania.
"It is a general strategy of all education
systems to develop in schools, as early possible, innovation, creativity
and enterprise spirit. "Be Entrepreneurial! "is preparing high school
students for independent life and good careers. With this program,
business community is a reliable partner and Citi a great investor and a
model. I'm sure the results will come soon, for all", declared Ștefania
E. Popp, Executive Director of Junior Achievement Romania.
All
students and teachers enrolled in the program will receive for free the
Be Entrepreneurial kit of materials consisting of the Student Manual,
Teacher & Business Volunteer Guide and other auxiliary materials.
The activities will be facilitated by Citibank volunteers, who will work
with the students throughout the school year to make them understand
better how to develop an entrepreneurial idea.
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