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American Ambassador in Skopje, Mr. Philip Reeker awarded the students at The First Macedonian Business Plan Competition, a partnership between Junior Achievement Macedonia, US Embassy in Macedonia and State University of Tetovo
Philip Reeker, US Ambassador in Macedonia:” The youth of US, the youth of any country, is the capital that we need to invest in for our future. The students that are here today and what they have worked so hard to achieve, are a perfect example of how persistence and creativity can change a course of a country’s future. So I want to congratulate all of you for being some of the best that Macedonia has to offer and I want to wish each and every one of you success with your business plans. I compliment you on taking the initiative to develop business plans and I look forward to see those plans in action. Whether you come in first or tenth, you should consider this moment right now a vote of confidence in your skills and your abilities to succeed in the future. I look forward for visiting some of your businesses in the near future, and watching them grow, and who knows maybe one day your companies will have the opportunity to partner with an American company.
At the end I want to thank all of you for participating this evening and for the warm welcome I received here, and I am looking forward to meet this young entrepreneurs and business people in the near future”.
The team City Wash Centre, from the State University of Tetovo, vied the highest score for content (including creativity and professionalism in executing the business plan) and presentation (including a demonstration of key business traits, such as team work, leadership, and public speaking). The team was awarded with US$ 1.000.
Junior Achievement Macedonia is pleased to announce the winners of the The First Macedonian Business Plan Competition, a business plan competition for young people from universities throughout Macedonia.
Winners List:
FIRST PLACE City Wash Centre To provide clothes wash/dry services including pick up and delivery in Tetovo State University of Tetovo
SECOND PLACE Advert SMS Email and SMS marketing directly to mobile phones Economic Faculty Skopje
Honorable Mention SHICK Clothes Rental To rent exclusive, occasional clothing for female, males and children in Skopje
University American College, Skopje
Honorable MentionMy Nanny Ltd To provide professional nanny and babysitting services to niche market in Skopje
University American College, Skopje
Honorable Mention Wine - Tux To sell decorative outfits for wine bottles
Economic Faculty Skopje
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FIRST NATIONAL MACEDONIAN BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION IN MACEDONIA
Junior Achievement – Macedonia, registered Macedonian non-governmental organization in cooperation with the State University of Tetovo, Macedonia (www.unite.edu.mk), recently received a Democracy Commission Grant from the US Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, (http://macedonia.usembassy.gov)
in order to promote entrepreneurship among university students and
post-graduate students in Macedonia. The workshops on business plan
creation at multiple locations will be directed by Dr. John Sumansky,
(Fulbright scholar from the Misericordia University, Dallas, USA) to
support a national business plan competition, which will act as an
incentive to entrepreneurship and business creation for students to start
and develop their own businesses.
While economic growth is the main objective of the cooperative program,
preventing Macedonia’s brain drain is another goal as well as ensuring
young people to be aware of entrepreneurial opportunities in Macedonia and
to have confidence and skills to act on their desire to be entrepreneurs.
During the Global Entrepreneurship Week that will be held 17-23 November,
2008 (:
http://unleashingideas.org/welcome) Macedonian students will be given
the opportunity to participate in our first ever national competition.
Competitors of the ten winning teams and their advisors will be invited to
Global Entrepreneurship Competition on Friday, 21 November, 2008 in Tetovo
and the oral presentation of their business plans will be graded by
Macedonian business, government and academic leaders.
Dr. John Sumansky, will be available on the campus of each Macedonian
University to explain business plan ideas and answer questions. Check your
university schedule to learn when he will be at your university, within
the period of 10-31 October, 2008. Contact person: Jasmina Maneva 02/ 32
32 653, 075/ 451 362, e-mail:
jmaneva@soros.org.mk;
www.jamacedonia.org.mk
Dr. Sumansky: “Entrepreneurs – both big and small – sustain and build
our global economy by creating the jobs and wealth of today and tomorrow.
In today’s economy, it is especially important to encourage
entrepreneurship among our high school and college students who may
establish and develop a self-sustaining small business of the world’s next
great corporation.”
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MACEDONIAN STUDENT DARKO ILIOV IS THE WINNER OF THE SKILLS@WORK CHALLENGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION HELD IN SOFIA
The winners of all national competitions participated in the international final in Sofia on March 11-13 2009. 56 young entrepreneurs faced the final challenge and competed in teams of mixed nationalities. The event’s sponsor Microsoft chose e-governance as the theme for the first Skills@Work international challenge. By developing projects to respond to the challenge the young people demonstrated their visions of civil society and services that a efficient government should be able to provide to its citizens and businesses by electronic means.
Darko Iliov from the Economic High School "Ljupco Santov" from Kocani was awarded a special prize for best presentation skills.
Metodija Gjorgjiev ( first from the left) from the Art School "Lazar Licenoski" from Skopje and his team were awarded the 3rd prize.
The Skills@Work Challenge is a national and international competition aimed at encouraging young people to use their skills in enterprising and innovative ways, ultimately increasing their employability and entrepreneurial flair.
More than 1.500 students have taken part in the national competitions that were held in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and the UK. At each event volunteers from the local business community set the students a challenge which they had to solve within a limited timeframe before presenting their conclusions to a jury of judges.
The winners of those national competitions then traveled to the international final in Sofia. In Sofia the students groups were mixed and new teams were formed of mixed nationalities.
After 24 hours of brainstorming, collaboration and idea generation the teams presented their innovations to a panel of judges from business. The winning team “Easy Vote” was made up of students from Bulgaria, Israel, Romania, UK and Serbia who all worked together to develop an idea for an voting system aimed at increasing the voting activity within populations and reducing the cost and impact to governments. They will travel to London, UK for more skills and entrepreneurship development.
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NATIONAL COMPETITION - SKOPJE
The winner of the National Competition held in Skopje on 22 November is the team Cosmo Future which will participate in the international final in Sofia on March 11-13, 2009.
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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH COMPETITION
JA-YE Europe (www.ja-ye.org/Main/Default.aspx?)
and the British Council are pleased to announce the launch of the
Skills@Work Challenge, an enterprise competition for young people from
vocational schools aged 15-18, from 9 countries in the South East Europe
Region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Israel, Macedonia, Romania,
Serbia and Turkey) and the UK.
The Skills@Work Challenge is a series of national competitions, leading to
an international competition, aiming to encourage young people to use their
skills in enterprising and innovative ways, ultimately enhancing their
employability and entrepreneurial flair. More than 1,000 students are
expected to take part in the national competitions this autumn. The business
community is asked to give the students a challenge which they have to solve
within just a few hours and then make a presentation in front of a jury.
NATIONAL COMPETITION
During the Global Entrepreneurship Week that will be held from 17 – 23
November 2008, (http://unleashingideas.org/welcome)
Macedonian students will be given the opportunity to participate in our
first ever national competition, organised together with Junior Achievement
Macedonia (www.jamacedonia.org.mk)
The national competition will be a one-day ‘challenge’ and will be held in
Skopje on 22 November 2008 at the secondary vocational school ASUC ‘Boro
Petrusevski’ (http://www.dasu.edu.mk/).
It will bring together one hundred contestants from across the country. The
day will start with ice breakers and a variety of team-building activities
that will allow the contestants to get to know each other, and thus form
5-member teams. During the day, representatives from the business community
, Cosmofon (www.cosmofon.com.mk)
will give them a ‘challenge’ to which they will have to propose a solution
within a very limited timeframe and present it in front of a jury.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The winners of all national competitions will participate in the
international final in Sofia on March 11-13 2009. 45 young entrepreneurs
from 9 South East European countries and 15 entrepreneurs from the UK will
compete in teams of mixed nationalities.
For more information about the competition, please contact the office of
Junior Achievement Macedonia
“The Lisbon agenda starts at school, more enterprise in the classroom means
better skills and more business creation,” said Caroline Jenner, CEO of
JA-YE Europe. “Taking part in activities like this is one way that many
people test new waters, gain valuable experience and learn new skills”.
“Employers know their business stands or falls on their people, how and
where they find and retain the right people is a huge challenge for Europe
in the global labour marketplace,” said Michael Moore, Skills@Work Project
Director, British Council.
SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN OWN BUSINESS -
(Do you want to have your own business?!) Brief description
The objective of the project is to develop entrepreneurship through
counselling and training of unemployed young persons. In general activities
will contribute to increase the employability of the unemployed people
involved in the project and unemployment among the ethnic minorities.
The project will train the participants through theory and practice
(simulation, role plays and other practical exercises inside and outside the
classroom) to become entrepreneurs, in particular to:
• Develop a business plan
• Get familiar with financial and bank issues.
• Get familiar with legal and administrative (registration) issues.
The target groups consisted of people from different minorities in different
locations. At the end of the project it will be possible to compare the
outcomes and results achieved by the participants from different target
groups.
www.imc-sep.com.mk
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Global Business Ethics Program
The Global Business Ethics Program will be web
based and available on the Internet to all of Junior Achievement
International’s 112 Member Nations. The Ethics Program will take students
from around the world through a twelve-week course simultaneously as they
learn about universal and personal values, sound character development, and
business ethics. The program will link students via the Internet giving them
the opportunity to discuss ethical issues and interact internationally,
widening their perspectives on global ethical issues and developing a cross
cultural understanding (www.ja-global.org)
The issue of diverse cultural character behavior will be critical for
students to understand as they mature into adults and assume business
positions in the new international market place. The program will be taught
in the traditional Junior Achievement format using teachers, local business
and community volunteers in the classroom as mentors to guide the learning
process with a hands-on personal approach. Students will be assigned weekly
Global Partners to communicate with and discuss pre-determined topics related
to the week’s lesson.
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