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Initiatives, awards to encourage young people on entrepreneurship

22-5-2018

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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Tobacco potato and wheat growers register heavy losses

21-5-2018

The agriculture minister Ghazi Zeiater met yesterday with a delegation of wheat farmers from West and Central Beqaa and from Baalbaq-Hermel, who demanded compensation for the losses resulting from rainfall scarcity. The minister for his part, while confirming the large losses, advised setting a national plan to support wheat cultivation in the different Lebanese regions, disclosing that he referred the subject for debate at the Council of Ministers. On the other hand, MP elect, Tarek Mer3abi, during a meeting on May 18 with Customs officials and representatives from the ministry of agriculture and agricultural committees, called for an immediate halt to the entry of Syrian potatoes smuggled into the country. He predicted heavy losses in the Akkar potato season due to the surplus of the imported crop in the markets, among other factors, and described the situation of farmers as ‘tragic’. Meanwhile, the president of the Tobacco Farmers Union in the South, Hassan Fakih, warned last week of a real disaster to the industry in a number of villages, particularly in Bint Jbeil, due to sudden climate change. Fakih pressed the need to control the green tobacco sickness which causes the drying of leaves, anticipating a smaller harvest. (Al Diyar, Al Mustaqbal, Al Akhbar, May 18, 20, 21, 2018)

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Activities to empower youth in Balamand, Antonine universities

21-5-2018

Within the framework of youth-supporting initiatives, the Antonine University-Zahleh branch, organized on Friday its annual Job Fair and Spring Festival at its Ablah campus in the presence of a crowd of people. On the occasion, the administrative director of the Branch, Tony Reiadi, stressed the purpose of the exhibition in gathering recruiting agencies and establishments from different sectors to showcase their employment or training prospects at hand and network with participating students from various faculties across the Beqaa area. Meanwhile, Balamand University hosted on May 11 a day to raise awareness on entrepreneurship organized by the Francophone University Agency (AUF), in collaboration with MEHE, Berytech, ESA Smart and RDCL. This event which comes as part of the Student Entrepreneurship Development in Lebanon (DEEL) aimed to introduce higher education institutions on how to train students to partake in the entrepreneurial environment, with focus on the role of teachers in student guidance. The AUF also organized two days of the same activity targeting Lebanese University students, while noting that some 15 universities in Lebanon will benefit from the project. (Al Diyar, L’Orient Le Jour, May 19, 2018)

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Export of first 20 tons of Akkari potatoes to the Netherlands

18-5-2018

The Rene Mouawad Foundation (RMF) celebrated yesterday the export of a quantity of improved potato to the Netherlands. This comes as a result of collaboration between the ministry of agriculture, the Dutch Embassy and agricultural coops to complete a project for improving the value-chain for potato and leafy green farmers in Akkar, the North. The event took place at the Port Authority of Beirut Lecture Hall in the presence of the agriculture ministry director general, Louis Lahoud, representing minister Ghazi Zeiater and concerned parties. Lahoud on the occasion stressed the importance of the project aimed at the development of Lebanese agricultural products and inspiring farmers to stay steadfast in their lands. He underlined the role of his ministry in backing similar initiatives that contribute to enhancing made-in-Lebanon agro-food goods, and proposed a mechanism for export to EU countries of potato bound for consumption (Details of the mechanism on the following link: (https://goo.gl/2dF3nH). For his part, the Dutch Ambassador to Lebanon, Jan Waltmans, said European standards can be met if Lebanese potato farmers receive the proper support, pointing out that Lebanon currently exports nearly 20 tons of the crop to the Netherlands which were entirely sold even before the shipment was completed. (Al Mustaqbal, May 18, 2018)

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Prizes, scholarships in support of young talents

17-5-2018

Within the framework of supporting young talents, the industry minister, Dr. Hussein Haj Hassan, sponsored yesterday a ceremony organized by Lebanese Industrial Research Achievement program (LIRA) to distribute awards among university students for their industrial research projects in 2018. Some 46 projects have been implemented with the participation of industrial establishments, and the supervision of the industry, the Lebanese Industrialists Association (LIA), and the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), and with funding from Banque du Liban. Concurrently, Fransabank distributed certificates of appreciation to some 180 students in addition to USD 27,000 cash award to 22 students who participated in the academic contest ‘Talents for Lebanon’ launched in 2017 by the Bank. This, to note, comes as part of Fransabank’s commitment to corporate social responsibility and in the context of renewing the cooperation protocol signed with the General Secretariat of Catholic Schools. Meanwhile, Petrofac announced on Tuesday that it has set up a USD 5 million fund at AUB to honor the legacy of its co-founder Maroon Semaan who died in 2017. The Fund will provide yearly scholarships and training to 14 engineering students at the Maroon Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, May 16, 17, 2018)

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Six Lebanese startups qualify for the Hult Prize finals

16-5-2018

The Hult Prize Foundation organized its semi-final international competition launched for the first time in Lebanon at the start of the academic year in partnership with Banque du Liban, BLOM bank and UNIC. The initiative aims to challenge the youth to innovate and build enterprises that promote energy-powered development. Under the theme, ‘Harnessing the power of energy to transform the lives of 10 million people’, 6 student teams qualified for the final round, and they are: Pro Shielf and Yalla Bus (AUB), Bright Steps and Transformer (Beirut Arab University), and H2 (LAU) and Energy Saving Mode On (Rafik Hariri University). Entrants have received training for a period of six months, with 50 teams including 150 students being shortlisted for the semi-finals. The Nobel Prize winning Hult Prize foundation is the world’s greatest youth startup accelerator with a role to build, fund and train startups. (Al Mustaqbal, May 16, 2018)

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Official support needed for the cultivation of roses in Beqaa

16-5-2018

In its issue of yesterday, Al Akhbar daily expanded on the promising rose farming in some Beqaa villages, like Mazraet Beit Salibi, Ksarnaba, Tamnin and Shmestar which has been kept for many years by private individual ventures in the absence of official support and protection. All family members, Al Akhbar wrote, partake in the harvesting ceremony from the early-morning hours. Mohamad Salibi from the town of Mazraet, said this cultivation involves the majority of town farmers, but lamented that, similar to many traditional crops, it has been left high and dry and its prices are manipulated by traders. Farmer Ali Shehadeh, for his part, said the lack of protection allows some merchants to import the rose fragrance and employ it in the distillation and manufacture of low quality rose water at prices that compete with the locally-produced pure rose water. He demanded that the government stop the import of concentrated liquid during the production season. In this respect, Al Akhbar highlighted an initiative launched by Beit Salibi rose growers to establish the ‘cooperative society for the manufacture of essential oils at Beit Salibi’, in an attempt to shift the sector from individual to collective and cooperative work. But this does not cancel out the required role on part of the government to transform this cultivation into an industry with economic potential, as farmers requested. (AL Akhbar, May 15, 2018)

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NGO activities to support youth entrepreneurship

15-5-2018

Within the framework of activities aiming at supporting youth capabilities, the Themar Tripoli Investment Fund concluded last Saturday its annual competition to select an investment idea out of 90 proposals by students from tens of universities in Tripoli and the North. The Jury selected three winning projects, the first being “IngREADients” project from the Lebanese university. The project is an App which helps consumers evaluate products’ ingredients. The second place was won by "Leb E-Guide from City university and which is an App about touristic journeys in Lebanon. The Lucy Project from the Arab University won the third place for an APP to measure children’s body temperature. On another vein, the Safadi Cultural Centre hosted the Money smart programme organized by Eventa and under the auspices of Byblos Bank. The event seeks to strengthen financial culture amongst youth between 20 and 30 years if age (students, employees and employers). The event consisted of a 2 day training for some 65 participants from Tripoli and the North and included plenaries on budgeting, taxation and relations with banks. For its part, the Faculty of Sciences at the USEK university organized yesterday its eighth scientific day entitled “Innovation through Practical Research and Technology”, during which prizes were bestowed to 9 winning students. (Al Mustaqbal, Al-Akhbar and Al Diyar 15 May 2018)

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Minister of Tourism criticizes summer festivals in Lebanon

15-5-2018

The Minister of Tourism Avedis Guidanian stated that the overwhelming number of summer festivals defeats their purpose. Guidanian hoped for a better organization of what he called the “festivals trend” so that all have a share. He further explained that the purpose of festivals is for each village to feel that it is achieving and implementing successful festival and that his Ministry will take action in this regard. Guidanian was speaking yesterday at the launch of the Ghalbun festivals which will take place from May 28th and until July 1st. He further reiterated that such event should bring in hard currency and invigorate the economy. (Al Diyar 15 May 2018)

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Business incubators, micro-credit at Jinan, Arab Open Universities

14-5-2018

As part of efforts to raise awareness on the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the faculty of business administration and information at Al Jinan University, Saida Branch, organized on Friday a talk under the headline, ‘The impact of business incubators on the development of SMEs and the role of the media in promoting them’. On the occasion, the director of the University branch, Asaad Naderi, said this subject is characterized by its novelty and uniqueness, especially that it has not been adequately addressed to date, and because highlighting the role of the media to this effect gives it added significance, as he put it. For his part, the assistant dean of the faculty of information, Mustafa Matbouli, pointed to the importance of traditional and new media in publicizing the activities of SMEs to the consumer community, which, he explained, has positive impact on the creation of jobs for the Lebanese youth and increases growth rate in the country. In a related vein, the Arab Open University held last week an international conference on microfinance which called for the activation of microfinance products and ways to engage a larger number of beneficiaries from the sector. The president of the AOU, Fairuz Sarkis, underlined the importance of microfinance and challenges in contributing to economic growth and its inclusion within the goals of sustainable development. (Al Diyar, Al Mustaqbal, May 12, 14, 2018)

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