Junior Achievement Romania

Junior Achievement Romania (JAR), member of Junior Achievement Worldwide and Junior Achievement Europe, is the largest and the most dynamic organization of entrepreneurial, financial education, and professional guidance in Romania. JAR implements international programs for free, capitalizing formal education, offering real business environment experiences, every year for over 4,000 teachers and 200,000 students of all levels, from primary school to university. As part of Junior Achievement Worldwide, JA Romania delivers in Romania educational programs under the slogan “Invest in education”. Its mission is to serve schools through a partnership between business and education and to provide free materials, trainings to participating schools. Through JA Romania programs delivered in class, young people experience different social roles and practice skills and attitudes required in the real market economy. These practical modules (Applied Economics, Entrepreneurship, Financial Education, Skills for Employability, Ethics and responsibility) complement the national core curriculum in schools and provide the framework for a strong connection between education and life, intended to assure the success of young people in their career and life. Established in Romania in 1993 as a not for profit organization, Junior Achievement Romania (JAR) started in 1997 to implement programs for students in pre-university schools, K-12. JA programs are implemented in Romanian schools in accordance with a partnership signed between JAR and Ministry of National Education since 2003. Junior Achievement Romania has expertise in the following areas: a) content development for educational modules and programs/projects, as part of the national curricula and extracurricular. b) teacher training, based on experience with online and onsite training for a network of over 3,000 active teachers annually c) education program marketing and dissemination for over 70 projects/event/competitions and programs annually d) curriculum and policy development, working in partnership with the Ministry of Education since 2003 (JA Romania is the organization who has successfully proposed the MoE to introduce entrepreneurship education as part of the core curriculum) e) holds a portfolio of over 300 partner companies in the economic community and a portfolio of more than 1,500 schools participating with mentors from the business community, helping young people to develop teamwork, leadership, creativity and communication skills in JA programs each year; f) partnership building to bring together the business and educational communities, with over 65, 000 hours of business volunteering donated by companies and entrepreneurs to help young people develop their skills and make important choices for their future g) program monitoring and evaluation, based on experience in implementing and evaluating projects with a multitude of partners, donors and reporting systems h) holds international licenses for academic field: textbooks, books, educational software, software for training, forums, databases, inventory; i) has educational partnerships with over 200 national and international institutions and organizations and has its own publishing house.