Initiatives, awards to encourage young people on entrepreneurship

As part of initiatives inspiring youth to become entrepreneurs, Ruwwad Lebanon launched yesterday its ‘Youth Economic Empowerment’ program. This comes in the framework of partnership with City Foundation aimed at promoting the culture of entrepreneurship and empowering young people with the required skills to ensure their access to jobs and allow them to contribute to economic growth in both Lebanon and Jordan. The 2-year program also targets youth in areas struggling to beat marginalization in the cities of Tripoli and Amman through a series of educational programs and entrepreneurial projects. For its part, Beirut Municipality said it will carry out training courses next month for some 600 university graduates on how to write a CV and prepare for job interviews in an attempt to fight unemployment among fresh graduates. Meanwhile, Alfa and Erikson held last week the second edition of the Alfa & Erikson LoT competition, in cooperation with IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group in Lebanon. The competition saw an increase this year in the number of participating teams and colleges as compared to last year, (with 17 teams of 47 students representing 12 universities). (Al Mustaqbal, Al Akhbar, May 22, 2018)

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