ORT GET-IT Centre in Ekaterinburg, Russia

Wednesday, 09 December 2009 13:30

 

ImageThe Ekaterinburg ORT GET-IT Centre has been educating young entrepreneurs for two years.  The Centre started by identifying the needs of the local community in Ekaterinburg.  It was found that educational institutions had a need to deliver training on entrepreneurial skills, and that the creation of new jobs was of the highest priority.  An increase in the share of small businesses was needed to help sustain the local community.  The Centre found that self-employment, financial independence, and confidence in the future were all lacking in the local population.  The Center found the introduction of GET-IT programme to be one of the solutions to these issues.  The Centre therefore presented the GET-IT programme to young people in the local community, as well as to representatives of educational institutions and to the mass media.  Trainings were started shortly thereafter and business-related counselling and support were offered to the Centre’s students.  With the help of a series of partnerships established with different local partners – educational, employment, and business organisations – 450 students have been trained on GET-IT, more than 170 of whom have found jobs, started their own business, or improved their performance. 

Gallery of the Masters

One of the important results of the Ekaterinburg HP-ORT GET-IT Centre was the participation in the development and promotion of the Gallery of the Masters project. The project’s purpose was to create a network of centres focused on craftsmanship and to organise business awareness in institutions of primary and secondary vocational education in the region of Sverdlovsk. The project focused on continuous business education and the creation of educational business incubators for the production of crafts. The project’s most important result has been the teaching of self-sufficiency to professional craftsmen so that they can organise and conduct their own business in today’s economic conditions.

Learn more about the Gallery of Masters

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ORT-Ekaterinburg

This year, World ORT celebrates its 130th Anniversary as one of the world’s largest non-profit education and training organisations. Since 1880, ORT has enabled 3 million people in over 100 countries to attain the competencies needed to achieve self-sufficiency, independence and dignity. 

The ORT-Career Centre was established in Ekaterinburg in April 2005. The project was aimed at training people in the field of ICT and assisting them in finding employment. Since August 2007, the ORT-Career Centre started providing training within the framework of the GET-IT programme, working in cooperation with the Ural State Teacher Training University and the Foundation of Support of Women Entrepreneurship of the Ural region.