"Education" signed a cooperation protocol with the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprise Development Authority to provide job opportunities

Dr. Tarek Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, and Nevin Gamea, Minister of Trade and Industry, in her capacity as CEO of the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprise Development Agency, signed a cooperation protocol on providing distinguished job opportunities, rehabilitation and education to meet the needs of the labor market by preparing highly skilled graduates.
This comes within the framework of the state’s efforts for economic reform and reducing unemployment, and in application of the principle of strategic partnerships between ministries and various bodies in the Egyptian government with the aim of contributing to the provision of trained manpower for all productive sectors for the development of society, raising the capabilities and efficiency of Egyptian labor and supporting the establishment and development of small projects.
The cooperation protocol aims to educate and train young men and women in the fields of industry, agriculture, tourism, trade, information technology, management and services, and the development of technical skills and required behaviors that will enable them to join the labor market, within the framework of cooperation in the areas of training in entrepreneurship skills to establish small and micro projects, and cooperation in Fields of technical training, cooperation in the areas of guidance and direction, and the dissemination of a culture of self-employment among students.
It also seeks to identify schools participating in cooperation activities with the agency in different governorates, prepare and equip training places with the means needed for training in light of the capabilities available in the ministry, evaluate ideas of graduation projects for students of technical schools and graduates that can be implemented, coordinate on turning them into small projects, and encourage innovative and creative ideas.
The protocol also includes providing financing for small and micro-enterprises for young men and girls, especially graduates of technical education, organizing seminars, visits, awareness-raising meetings, and orientation and advice sessions in cooperation with the Ministry for youth and girls, especially in the areas of entrepreneurship, and participating in preparing trainers nominated by the Ministry to become trainers, mentors and mentors. Implementation will start as a first phase in a number of governorates, determined in coordination between the Ministry and the Agency, with priority given to schools that serve a decent life initiative, and the rest of the governorates, after evaluating the first phase, are determined successively, the target groups are teachers, students, graduates of technical schools, trainees and job seekers who are qualified to enter the labor market.