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Student Company Program
Published on 14 May 2020
Latvia
Latvija
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About this good practice
The Student Company Program is a special teaching method for 4th – 12th-grade students, giving them the opportunity to gain business and leadership skills through practical work, creating products, and offering them to potential clients. Throughout the course of the school year, more than 1 200 student training businesses are established and operate in Latvia’s schools yearly. Entrepreneurship is a major driver of innovation, competitiveness, and growth.
Resources needed
Junior Achievement Latvia in-house staff of five persons. The team provides schools with the tools, materials, platforms, events, frameworks where and how to work. Each participative school has one or more practicing teachers/mentors
Evidence of success
The number of student companies increases rapidly on a yearly basis reaching 1200 student companies in the year 2018. The studies say that 22 % of Student Company Program alumni in Latvia are involved in developing their own businesses. The number of schools participating in the program increases every year reaching 220 schools in the year 2019 covering 30 % of all schools in Latvia.
Potential for learning or transfer
Student Company program as nation-wide as in Zemgale’s region is the one and only permanent entrepreneurial education method. This is approved as a fact by the European Commission stating that the JA Latvia program is the only positive initiative in Latvia, that provides Latvian youngsters with entrepreneurial education in long-term and methodically. Taking into consideration the fact and even though JA Latvia is an NGO, the organization is working productively to cover and reach more pupils heading towards the main idea - to provide not only all pupils in Zemgale Region but also in the whole Latvia with entrepreneurial education and including the program in the syllabus so that it is available to every single youngster in school regionally and nationally.
Further information
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Good practice owner
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Organisation
Ministry of Education and Science
Latvia
Latvija
Contact
Project manager