AMMAN — Orange Jordan sponsored the National Youth
Entrepreneurship Competition 2021, held annually by Entro Gate company within
the Young Entrepreneur program.
اضافة اعلان
The competition aims to enhance entrepreneurship and
innovation skills of school students aged 12-17, provide them with the
necessary tools to come up with innovative ideas and turn them into projects,
support them in choosing entrepreneurship instead of a traditional career path
to build a generation that creates job opportunities instead of searching for
them.
The annual competition for the year 2021 is held in
partnership with the Ministry of Education/ Department of Vocational Education
and Production, Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Crown Prince
Foundation (CPF)/ TechWorks, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Forum and Al Amal Al
Amer initiative, in addition to Oxfam and the European Union.
More than 5,468 students and 77 schools across 12
governorates in the Kingdom joined the entrepreneurship training program
through the Young Entrepreneurs Platform, the first Arab platform for teaching
youth entrepreneurship skills and providing them with innovation tools by
establishing entrepreneurship clubs in their schools and integrating
entrepreneurship into the educational system.
The participants went through five main stages, the first
was “launching ideas” focusing on the concepts of entrepreneurship and
innovation, problem analysis and the community need for innovative ideas,
second, “building a business model”, third, “building a prototype” as
TechWorks, a CPF initiative, offered workshops about design thinking and its
role in building a prototype. In the fourth and fifth stages, participants
developed marketing plans for their projects to prepare for the semi-final
competition.
Across different governorates, 54 entrepreneurial ideas
qualified for the semi-final competitions, within the National Youth
Entrepreneurship Competition 2021, held by Entro Gate, sponsored by Orange
Jordan, the exclusive telecom sponsor. The ideas will compete in the semi-final
stage through the challenge platform of the Young Entrepreneurs platform.
The challenge platform will provide teams with an
opportunity to present their ideas to the public vote, in addition to the
evaluation of the projects by a committee of experts, as the total marks of
each team are calculated at 30% for the public vote and 70% for the evaluation
of the judging committee. The winning teams will qualify for the final competitions
to be celebrated at the closing ceremony and win prizes of JOD 2000 granted by
Orange Jordan to support them in developing the projects.
Deputy Chief PR, CSR and Corporate Communication Officer,
Eng. Rana AlDababneh confirmed that the company’s sponsorship of the Youth
Entrepreneurship Competition comes in line with Orange’s commitment to
supporting the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the kingdom, which constitutes one
of the pillars of its corporate social responsibility and efforts to help youth
launch their projects through sustainable programs, competitions, networking
opportunities and active partnerships.
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