The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development lately held a series of training programs across the UAE in partnership with Dubai Entrepreneurship Academy, the academic arm of Dubai SME, the agency of the Department of Economic Advancement in Dubai mandated to establish the SME market. The training programs concentrated on information and communications technology (ICT) friendliness, and also other essential markets that advertise entrepreneurship and also SMEs as the backbone of the UAE's economy.

Mouza Al Nasri, Exec Director of Entrepreneurship Advancement at Khalifa Fund, said: "We will certainly continue to implement numerous efforts as well as occasions, consisting of recognition projects as well as development programs, for university and school pupils. In all these initiatives, our objective is to develop an appealing future where SMEs are extremely equipped. The Khalifa Fund also offers all type of support to innovative concepts, imaginative jobs, and technical improvements. Our training courses together with Dubai Entrepreneurship Academy reflect the importance of solidarity and participation amongst different entities for young generation. We should constantly venture to increase the degree of their administrative and also technical capability by enhancing their expertise and also experiences and also cultivating their entrepreneurial skills."

Ibtihal Al Naji, Supervisor of Dubai Entrepreneurship Academy, also stressed the importance of cooperation between the government as well as private sectors in advertising the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst youths. The training programs we had in partnership with the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development were in line with the ongoing efforts to provide all support for entrepreneurship development in the country and establish the right environment for Emirati youth to pursue their projects, thus contributing to the growth of the local economy. Such training programs and workshops are important to providing innovative mechanisms, tools and programs that will enable the youth to turn their creative ideas into a reality.

As component of the training programs, Khalifa Fund held a workshop labelled 'Just how to Begin a Successful ICT Job' in October at the Greater Universities of Modern Technology for Female Trainees in Ras Al Khaimah. More than 50 students attended the event and participated in the discussions on the importance of ICT. The occasion was extremely effective, with the students giving the workshop a 92 percent contentment score. Another workshop under the very same title was also held at the College of Sharjah in Khorfakkan, where greater than 70 pupils providing the event a satisfaction ranking of more than 94 percent. The course, The Hospitality Industry between Local and Global Reach was held at the United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain, with the involvement of greater than 80 trainees. It focused on the role of investments in supporting ingenious suggestions and remedies as well as means to help business owners much better recognize brand structure in the hospitality sector to bring their ambition from local to the international stage. The program also went over government procedures, continuity and also sustainability of tasks, business franchises in the hospitality sector, and food vehicles, to name a few. The attendees provided the training course a satisfaction score of over 96 per cent.

At the same time, the Khalifa Fund is currently holding a specialized training program entitled 'Expert Certification in Hospitality and also Food Catering Management,' which started on November 5, 2018 and will run up until December 16, 2018 with an expected variety of 30 business owners attending the discovering session. This specific and extensive program was created in partnership with the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management for business owners thinking about opening their own food and also beverages stores. The program is showing the fundamentals of being associated with the food industry, layout aspects, ideal administration methods, usefulness research, financial administration, food cost, as well as business requirements. The program aims to develop a specialist job strategy based on creative ideas as well as attain them in a monetarily feasible way. It additionally consists of 17 lectures and a collection of functional sessions.