BizWorld
BizWorld is an interdisciplinary business game, where students run their own (fictional) company during four project days. Students experience the basics of business, entrepreneurship and economics. During this project, students practice and improve their language and mathematic proficiency and develop additionally valuable skills that belong to the 21st century skills.
Business Startup
The INJAZ Business Start Up Program will contribute to the social and economic development, and political stability of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by engaging the talent of today’s youth and tomorrow’s leaders to create and innovate entrepreneurial solutions to local, regional and international socio-economic and political challenges.
Creatlon
Creatlon consists of 3 parts.
1. Obtaining knowledge in economics and entrepreneurship - quiz in Moodle.
2. Team exercise - 5 team tasks to fulfil in 1 month (Job shadowing, volunteering and writing about it, making a travel plan with prizes, etc.)
3. Creative task - a video, business fairy tale, advertisement, etc.
Career Exploration
Career Exploration is an Open-dialogue discussion between students and volunteers. The purpose is to expose students to a wide range of career possibilities and provide resources to help them begin focusing on and pursuing career interests at an early age. The duration: half a day
BRIDGE
Its the combination of JA-MFM (Mini Factory Model) and JA-WIN (Work and Interest) that was offered as a one-off intervention for the transition into the Waterfall model.
Economy of Kazakhstan
“Economy of Kazakhstan” introduces school students to fundamentals of economic concepts, also students study main characteristics of Kazakhstan economical system and how economic principles influence entrepreneurship.
Also programme helps school students to deepen theoretical knowledge, learn economic institutions which provide coherence in society, learn opportunities of career advancement. Students will develop their team and leader skills during the programme studying.
Excellence through Ethics - Korea High
Junior Achievement’s Excellence through Ethics offers students learning opportunities to share knowledge and information regarding ethics in business. JA strives to show students how business works, and to better evaluate organizations that conduct their operations in the right way.
Excellence through Ethics is designed to equip volunteers and teachers with supplemental, ethics-based activities for use with JA in-class programs for grades four through twelve. All these activities provide students with current and essential information about business ethics.
These activities are designed to reinforce students’ knowledge and skills, teach them how to make ethical decisions, assist them in learning to think critically, and help them to be better problem-solvers. All the activities are hands-on, interactive, and group-focused to present the material to students with the best instructional methods.
Entrepreneurship Academy Programme
The JA South Africa Entrepreneurship Academy Programme - a seven to eight month long programme for grades 10 – 12, with weekly sessions of three hours each, incorporating entrepreneurial, financial literacy and workplace readiness programmes, as well as micro-economics and business ethics.
Aflatoun
Aflatoun’s program contains both social and financial themes. Children learn about themselves, child rights, saving, basic financial concepts, and enterprise. Aflatoun puts children at the center of their learning process and engages them with the world around them. By doing so, Aflatoun believes that the social and financial lessons that they receive will stay with them forever.
Entrepreneurship Master Class Lebanon
EMC is a workshop that introduces students to the various aspects involved in running a business and to the notion of entrepreneurship and equips them with the skills and attitude necessary to be self employed.
Entrepreneurship Master Class Middle-UAE
The half day workshop introduces students to the concept of self-employment and entrepreneurship. It gives them the opportunity to meet an entrepreneur and engage in exciting activities with volunteers that are meant to expand their horizons and direct their thinking towards their professional future in a fun way. The workshops help students think about and rehearse responses to ideas while working in groups. Students work in teams to tackle a series of engaging enterprise challenges.
Entrepreneurship Master Class Elementary/Middle - Algeria (EMC)
A one day workshop to introduce the concept of self-employment to 50 students. Key skills developed in this workshop include creative thinking and problem solving, communication skills and presentation, teamwork and leadership, confidence, negotiation, decision-making and risk management and finally how to respond to challenges.
Community Citizenship
Community Citizenship familiarizes students with how to set up and run a social entrepreneurship project, and understand the skills, attitudes, planning and behaviors of social entrepreneurs. This workshop aims to cultivate the following:
- Creative thinking and problem solving within their community, alongside communication and presentation skills.
- Teamwork and leadership whilst building confidence and a can-do attitude.
- Negotiations, decision making, managing risks, and responding to change.
- Set up their own social project within their community.
- A sense of ownership and social responsibility within students.
Student Attendance: Approximately 60-100 students per workshop
Volunteers Required: 10
Entrepreneurship Master Class (EMC) High Pakistan
By developing the essential components of a business plan, the Entrepreneurship Master Class challenges students to start an entrepreneurial venture while still in high school.
Following participation in the program, students will be able to:
- Recognize characteristics and practices of successful entrepreneurs.
- Start thinking about their business goals and assess them from different perspectives.
- Demonstrate business-planning skills for an online venture start-up, financing, management, and long-term goals.
- Develop their interpersonal as well as problem-solving skills and learn to work under very tight deadlines
Session Summary
This exciting one-day (4-5 hour) workshop introduces 45-50 high school/college students to the concept of self-employment as well as an understanding of the skills, attitudes and behaviors of entrepreneurs, all of which are involved in setting up and running a business. Meant to expand their horizons and direct their thinking towards the future in a fun way. This workshop aims to cultivate the following:
- Creative thinking and problem solving alongside communication and presentation skills;
- Teamwork and leadership whilst building confidence and a can-do attitude;
- Negotiations, decision making, managing risks, and adapting to change.
Session Activities
Activity 1: How Much of an Entrepreneur are you?
Students are introduced to the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and assess themselves in light of the same, so as to build their knowledge of the business world.
Activity 2: Start Thinking
Students take on the roles of young entrepreneurs as they identify various issues within their localities and develop ‘business solutions’ to overcome each problem.
Activity 3: You as a Business/You as a Customer
Student groups first identify key characteristics of a successful business idea and then place themselves in a customer’s shoes to understand how their business goals affect their image as portrayed by their customers.
Activity 4: The Business Plan
Students apply the knowledge gained to their product or services and complete a sample business plan, which is to be presented within 2.5 minutes bearing in mind all key aspects of a start-up business venture.
Aflatoun
Aflatoun is a worldwide movement which could not be created without curriculum adaptation, without generous support and dedication of JAA team, teachers, children, parents, trainers, ministry, donors, partners, volunteers, board members, , family and friends – everyone who has helped bring Aflatoun to children in Armenia.
The Aflatoun Secretariat provided a curriculum and training, and JA Armenia adapted the curriculum, find the resources to deliver and implement the programme in schools.
Entrepreneurship Master Class (EMC) Tanzania
By developing the essential components of a business plan, the Entrepreneurship Master Class challenges students to start an entrepreneurial venture while still in high school.
Following participation in the program, students will be able to:
- Recognize characteristics and practices of successful entrepreneurs.
- Start thinking about their business goals and assess them from different perspectives.
- Demonstrate business-planning skills for an online venture start-up, financing, management, and long-term goals.
- Develop their interpersonal as well as problem-solving skills and learn to work under very tight deadlines
Session Summary
This exciting one-day (4-5 hour) workshop introduces 45-50 high school/college students to the concept of self-employment as well as an understanding of the skills, attitudes and behaviors of entrepreneurs, all of which are involved in setting up and running a business. Meant to expand their horizons and direct their thinking towards the future in a fun way. This workshop aims to cultivate the following:
- Creative thinking and problem solving alongside communication and presentation skills;
- Teamwork and leadership whilst building confidence and a can-do attitude;
- Negotiations, decision making, managing risks, and adapting to change.
Session Activities
Activity 1: How Much of an Entrepreneur are you?
Students are introduced to the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and assess themselves in light of the same, so as to build their knowledge of the business world.
Activity 2: Start Thinking
Students take on the roles of young entrepreneurs as they identify various issues within their localities and develop ‘business solutions’ to overcome each problem.
Activity 3: You as a Business/You as a Customer
Student groups first identify key characteristics of a successful business idea and then place themselves in a customer’s shoes to understand how their business goals affect their image as portrayed by their customers.
Activity 4: The Business Plan
Students apply the knowledge gained to their product or services and complete a sample business plan, which is to be presented within 2.5 minutes bearing in mind all key aspects of a start-up business venture.
Entrepreneurship Master Class Middle- Kuwait
The half day workshop introduces students to the concept of self-employment and entrepreneurship. It gives them the opportunity to meet an entrepreneur and engage in exciting activities with volunteers that are meant to expand their horizons and direct their thinking towards their professional future in a fun way. The workshops help students think about and rehearse responses to ideas while working in groups. Students work in teams to tackle a series of engaging enterprise challenges.
Assembling Your Career - Argentina
The Assembling Your Career Program promotes the involvement of teachers, volunteers, and students in Junior Achievement programs to inspire them to pursue careers related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The activities proposed in the Volunteer and Teacher Handbook and the online tools provide students with hands-on information on the STEM professions and how to prepare for careers with a high demand for professionals.