New premises for Young Enterprise open at The Point

Junior Achievement (Young Enterprise) Malta – JAYE Malta – inaugurated a new Centre for Entrepreneurship Education at The Point in Sliema, supported by the Parliamentary Secretary for Small Businesses and Land and the HSBC Malta Foundation.

The larger premises reflect the organisation’s growth and expansion mode to foster entrepreneurial education among students from primary to post-secondary age in Malta.

Apart from the offices for the management and administration of the organisation’s various programmes, the centre is also aimed at becoming a hub, providing designated space for other non-profit organisations whose remit falls within the same scope of enterprise education, like Junior Chamber International (Malta).

For the past 20 years, Young Enterprise provided post-secondary students with a ‘learning-by-doing’ experience, encouraging groups of students to set up a mini-enterprise under controlled conditions over a full academic year.

This programme allowed more than 4,000 achievers the opportunity to develop skills which help them make the correct choices for careers or business ventures.

From last year, JAYE Malta started extending its programmes to primary and secondary schools. So far, 16 primary and five secondary schools in Malta and Gozo benefitted from this expansion, and more schools are being approached to be included in the programme.

“Moving into spacious premises is another successful milestone for our junior achievers organisation. We continue to grow to involve as many students as possible and raise in them the awareness of the opportunities that exist out there and the will to become Malta’s future entrepreneurs,” said Lorna Farrugia, CEO of JAYE Malta.

Hotelier Winston Zahra Jr and scientist Nicholas Sammut are among the many participants of Young Enterprise Malta, either as consultants or past achievers and fine examples of where this kind of background can lead students to.

Parliamentary Secretary for Small Businesses and Land Jason Azzopardi said fostering young entrepreneurs from an early age and the sustainable use of public property are two important values being promoted by the government.

JAYE Malta, formerly known as Young Enterprise, was founded in 1988 with the objective to enhance and nourish experiences of students in the practicalities of the business world. Its focus is on bridging the gap between the theoretical and practical implications of business.