Junior Achievement Of Albania

Junior Achievement (JA) is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. JA programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities. Junior Achievement of Albania is a not profit, non governmental organization established in April 2012, as an investment of Albanian - American Development Foundation - AADF (www.aadf.org). Its mission is to successfully implement Junior Achievement Programs in Albanian education system through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth. JA program address exactly the fourth competence and are largely considered by government and other stakeholders in economic education. In support of the current curricular reform initiated by the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, JA programs are integrated in the new official curricula of K-9, part of Civic Education & High School, part Economy, subject at 12th grade. This intervention would constitute a unique example among 122 countries worldwide implementing JA programs in schools, as the first case of JA program being obligatory through the whole pre-university education system. The support will ensure a qualitative installation of JA program in the core curriculum, capacity building of teaching staff and sustained involvement of business community in school life. In addition, JA of Albania is delivering two high school elective modules: at grade 11 & 12 1. JA Student Company (Shoqerite e Nxenesve) 2. Job Shadow (Drjetues per nje dite)