April 24-27, 2023, Aghveran
“Free Citizen” Civic Initiatives Support Center, summarizing the 18 pieces of training held in all regions of Armenia within the framework of the “V4 for Youth Entrepreneurship in the Regions of Armenia” program, held two three-day Spring Schools for a total of 41 young people from all regions.
The first Spring School was held in the “Arthurs Aghveran Resort” hotel complex on April 24-27, with the participation of 22 young people from all regions of Armenia. At the opening of the event, Hovsep Khurshudyan, the chairman of the “Free Citizen” Civic Initiatives Support Center NGO, Jan Cingel, the founder of the Slovakian “Strategic Analysis” Think Tank, and Lars Schmidt, the sustainable development consultant of the German IBB Dortmund, addressed the participants with a greeting.
Hovsep Khurshudyan also presented the results of the “V4 for Youth Entrepreneurship in the Regions of Armenia” project.
Then Jan Cingel conducted the courses “How to find business partners in the EU” and ” How to export products to the EU “.
In the second half of the first day, the sustainable development consultant of the German IBB Dortmund, Lars Schmidt, and the multinational team of the “Sustainable Event Management” program conducted training courses on Sustainable Event Management and the Economical Use of Resources.
On the second day of Spring School, Hovsep Khurshudyan held a mentorship on the topics of “Doing business in Armenia” and “Business plan design”. In the second half of the day, Monika Stefien, an expert from the Polish “Green Elephant” Foundation, held an online course/webinar on the topics “Key concepts & values of starting one’s own business ” and “The dark sides of entrepreneurship”.
On the third day, Garegin Miskaryan, businessman and chairman of the “Democratic Platform” foundation, held a course on “Why is democracy important for doing effective business and free market relations”.
The third day of Spring School concluded with the ceremony of handing over certificates to the participants.
You can get acquainted with the agenda of the event here.
Some of the spring school courses are presented below:
- Business opportunities for Armenian SMEs in EU – Jan Cingel;
- Key concepts and values of starting one՛s own business – Monika Stepien;
- The dark sides of entrepreneurship – Monika Stepien;
- Բիզնեսի հիմունքները – Գարեգին Միսկարյան:
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Within the framework of the “Visegrad 4 for the Development of Youth Entrepreneurship in the Regions of Armenia” program, during the 18 courses organized in all the regions of Armenia, 424 young people were given knowledge about entrepreneurship and business establishment (instead of 360 planned by the Program), 10 video classes were prepared (instead of 6 planned by the Program). Out of 36 collected business ideas, 27 were filtered according to relevance, 10 of which were awarded AMD 50,000 prizes. 41 out of 424 participants took part in the first and second three-day Spring Schools held at Arthurs Resort Hotel in Aghveran. The program was covered by social networks, television and radio.
The partners of “Free Citizen” CISC NGO in the implementation of the project are:
— “Strategic Research” Think Tank, Slovakia,
— “Green Elephant” Foundation, Poland,
— “Democratic Platform” Foundation, Armenia.
