HU Alumni Unit Trains Graduates in Green Entrepreneurship and Agri-Food Businesses

Hebron University Alumni Unit held a green entrepreneurship and agri-food business training session for a group of university graduates as part of a year-long series of training sessions entitled "Training to Build Professional Character and Cognitive Competencies for Green Jobs and Agri-food Businesses with a Focus on Opportunities Available to Young Men and Women in the Value Chain."

 Mr. Hassan Omar, an entrepreneurial trainer, led the four-day, 25-hour training. Fifty outstanding HU graduates attended the training as part of a capacity-building and qualifying initiative to help them gain easier access to the labor market.

Several topics were covered throughout the training course to assist graduates of Hebron University who are aspiring entrepreneurs with ideas for profitable ventures to turn those ideas into operational projects.

The topics covered also included learning design thinking to transform an idea into a pioneering enterprise, writing a successful business plan for a start-up project, and preparing and analyzing new initiatives' economic and financial feasibility.

The discussion covered the legal responsibilities of emerging projects, subsidiary plans like marketing, sales, and employment plans, administrative planning skills, and organizing work after project establishment, including directing executive operations, networking, relationship management, monitoring, follow-up, evaluation, and risk management.

The project aims to create green jobs and sustainable income opportunities for young Palestinian women and men in the agricultural and food business sector. It is a partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), funded by Denmark.