Newsletter 5th edition, May...
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Newsletter 5th edition, May 2015
Following the ICT sector analysis RISI developed interventions to increase the
quality and quantity of professional skills IT graduates in Albania to meet the
demand by local and potential foreign companies. Risi partnered with Real Visualz
Foundation, a branch of Real Visualz company based in the USA, and PROTIK, a
public private partnership organization aiming to develop the ICT sector in
Albania. Risi intervention in building professional IT skills will have two pillars:
RisiAlbania is a youth employment project that focuses on achieving systemic changes in the Albanian labour market in order to improve access to employment and income opportunities for young women and men.
Project duration: November 2013 – October 2017 Our address & contact details: Rr. Ismail Qemali, P18, H.3, Apt. 15 Tirana, Albania Tel : +355 (0) 422 48 52 Email: [email protected]
Visit our web site : www.risialbania.al
RisiAlbania wants to make the labour market work for young women and men in Albania,
by promoting job creation and effective job intermediation.
In order to achieve our goal, RisiAlbania works with a wide range of partners from the private and public sector as well as civil society.
Enhancing skills in the ICT sector
A new competition for innovative tourism products
1. Support to the e-learning platform ALMOOC platform to expand the range of IT professional courses reflecting foreign
market demand and taught by industry experts through project-based learning;
and 2. Support to disseminate Microsoft IT academy tools to Polytechnic University of Tirana and VET schools with IT
departments, which can be used by lecturers and teachers to enrich their course materials, and by students to acquire
professional skills. PROTIK will provide students with IT Academy training courses, career counseling training and the
opportunity to arrange internships. Risi is also partnering with a newly formed association of Business Process Outsourcing
companies, the Albania Outsourcing Association (AOA) on promotion of the BPO subsector. Risi support aims to enable
AOA to perform effectively its advocacy and promotion functions, so that the association can become an instrument for
promoting Albania’s BPO services in foreign markets and for influencing favourable government of Albania policies towards
this sector in the domestic market.
Risi Albania is supporting the diversification of tourisms product in Albania through
the creation of a tourism competition for innovative tourism products called “Risi
Turistike”. This competition is launched this year in Berat and Shkodra before
being progressively extend nation-wide, under the auspices of the Ministry of
Economic Development, Trade and Entrepreneurship.
Risi Albania Project has also supported the Albanian Rafting Federation for the
strategic planning development of the Albanian Adventure Resort centre. The
ecological AAR centre will offer several adventure and sports activities for
domestic and foreign markets. The centre is the first of its kind offering eco-
tourism products in Albania, helping to preserve, educate, appreciate the nature
and providing alternative employment and income opportunities for local
communities
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Spotlight on employment information and services
4 National Media are attractively broadcasting programs on career and job orientation for young people
Four national media, Top Channel, Club FM, A1 Report and Shqiptarja.com, partnering with Risialbania, are successfully
producing and disseminate their attractive shows, programs and supplements to a large audience of young people,
supported also by corresponding websites and/or Facebook pages. The three media programs “Ora e Punës” (Working
Hour) - radio-televised at Club FM and Club TV, “Ti Mundesh” (You can do it) - broadcasted at Top Channel, “Drejt Punës”
(Towards Employment) - broadcasted at A1 Report TV and the supplement “Drejt Punës” - distributed as part of
Shqiptarja.com newspaper, are becoming a valuable source of information for thousands of young people on career and job
orientation. On the other side, media have progressed to extend their audience to more young people and their parents
and profit from business sponsors, while different businesses are advertising their products to a large audience. The
audience feedback group, consisting of 20 young people from different backgrounds and different regions of Albania, under
the supervision of a media consultant, recently established by RisiAlbania, noted the good progress achieved so far. The
number of viewers/readers is relatively high and the programs are considered innovative additions to the Albanian media
landscape.
The job matching providers are offering new opportunities for young people and SMEs
The job portal “duapune.com”, with Risi’s support,
has launched the new version duapune.com 3.0 a
modern and comprehensive version with new
features and services, which has eased the application
process for young people and job postings process for
employers. Furthermore, the mobile app is now
available on Google Play and has already been
downloaded more than one thousand times and has
high user ratings. The number of job postings for the
period January-March 2015 1564, is over three-fold
increase compared with the forecasts. This is
translated in a bigger access of young people into job
opportunities.
“Profesionisti”, the newest
recruitment services in the
market, part of Celesi group,
supported by RisiAlbania
offers attractive recruitment
services to SMEs. Launched
on 1 November 2014, the
“Profesioniti” team is rapidly
increasing the number of
successful recruitments and
making good progress in
achieving their ambitious
targets.
Upcoming events
May 2015
Foreign Investments for three sectors: Agroprocessing, Tourism and IC The Foreign Investors Association of Albania (FIAA) and RisiAlbania are actively working to attract FDI to Albania. A number of meetings and workshops will be organized with chambers of commerce, embassies, associations, etc.
RisiTuristike The Award ceremony of the winners of the RisiTuristike competition will be organized on May.
ICT in Albania On May 14
th, as part of the
Innovation Week, RisiAlbania and AITA will present the results of the study on the ICT sector in Albania
Conference: labour market information, a new business for the media Based on the successful media programs supported by Risi, a second conference will be organized early July in partnership with the Faculty of Journalism.
As part of RisiAlbania support, 15 journalists from Top Channel, Club FM, A1 Report
and shqiptarja.com, together with 5 students and 2 professors from the Journalism
and Communication Department participated in the practical training with Mr. Sven
Astheimer, responsible of the labour market supplement “Beruf und chance” of the
well-known German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The Albanian
journalists found the exchange of experience with Mr.Astheimer, and his guidelines
on reporting attractively as a valuable input to increase their programs quality.
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