(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
During 2021-2022 academic year, Junior Achievement Azerbaijan
within the partnership with MOL Azerbaijan and the Ministry of
Education launched the“Young Entrepreneurs: Empowering future
business leaders” project for 7th and 8th grades' students.
30 pilot schools from Baku, Sumgayit, Ganja, Mingachevir,
Absheron, Gabala, Gakh, Zagatala, Masalli were engaged in the
project. In total, 125 teachers and 3237 students benefited from
the project.
The project was implemented in three stages. At the initial
stage, online trainings on financial literacy and entrepreneurship
was conducted for teachers. Following the teacher training,
financial literacy and entrepreneurship were included into the
education curriculum and introduced as an extra-curricular classes
at the selected schools.
As the last stage of the action JAA will conduct green
innovation challenge in Baku and Gakh. In total the innovation
challenge will bring together over 200 participants with the aim to
gain practical entrepreneurial experiences, discuss and develop
solutions for the better future. During the challenge students will
get a chance to apply their creativity and develop innovative
business solutions within the teams. By the end of the innovation
challenge student teams will pitch their project ideas to the
members of the jury. The winners will be awarded at the end of the
challenge.
“Entrepreneurship is essentially a mindset of finding and
creating opportunities, and that mindset is vital for economic
growth and business creation. For this matter, MOL Azerbaijan is
proud to support the project that introduces financial literacy and
entrepreneur education at schools to support young people in
Azerbaijan in developing entrepreneurial skills and attitude,”
stated Attila Somfai, the Managing Director of MOL Azerbaijan.
MOL Azerbaijan is a member of MOL Group, an international,
integrated oil, gas, petrochemicals and consumer retail company,
headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. MOL Group is active in over 30
countries with a dynamic international workforce of 24,000 people.
MOL's exploration and production activities are supported by more
than 85 years' experience in the field of hydrocarbons and 30 years
in the injection of CO2. At the moment, the company has
producing assets in 8 countries and exploration activities in 6
countries.
MOL Group entered Azerbaijan in 2019 by acquiring a 9.57% stake
in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil field, and an effective 8.9% stake
in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (“BTC”) pipeline that transports the
crude to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Therefore, MOL is the
third largest field partner in ACG, a supergiant oil field, located
in the Caspian Sea, which is operated by BP and started production
in 1997.
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