Newsletter 5th edition, May 2015

Following the ICT sector analysis RISI developed interventions to increase the

quality and quantity of professional skills IT graduates in Albania to meet the

demand by local and potential foreign companies. Risi partnered with Real Visualz

Foundation, a branch of Real Visualz company based in the USA, and PROTIK, a

public private partnership organization aiming to develop the ICT sector in

Albania. Risi intervention in building professional IT skills will have two pillars:

RisiAlbania is a youth employment project that focuses on achieving systemic changes in the Albanian labour market in order to improve access to employment and income opportunities for young women and men.

Project duration: November 2013 – October 2017 Our address & contact details: Rr. Ismail Qemali, P18, H.3, Apt. 15 Tirana, Albania Tel : +355 (0) 422 48 52 Email: info@risialbania.al

Visit our web site : www.risialbania.al

RisiAlbania wants to make the labour market work for young women and men in Albania,

by promoting job creation and effective job intermediation.

In order to achieve our goal, RisiAlbania works with a wide range of partners from the private and public sector as well as civil society.

Enhancing skills in the ICT sector

A new competition for innovative tourism products

1. Support to the e-learning platform ALMOOC platform to expand the range of IT professional courses reflecting foreign

market demand and taught by industry experts through project-based learning;

and 2. Support to disseminate Microsoft IT academy tools to Polytechnic University of Tirana and VET schools with IT

departments, which can be used by lecturers and teachers to enrich their course materials, and by students to acquire

professional skills. PROTIK will provide students with IT Academy training courses, career counseling training and the

opportunity to arrange internships. Risi is also partnering with a newly formed association of Business Process Outsourcing

companies, the Albania Outsourcing Association (AOA) on promotion of the BPO subsector. Risi support aims to enable

AOA to perform effectively its advocacy and promotion functions, so that the association can become an instrument for

promoting Albania’s BPO services in foreign markets and for influencing favourable government of Albania policies towards

this sector in the domestic market.

Risi Albania is supporting the diversification of tourisms product in Albania through

the creation of a tourism competition for innovative tourism products called “Risi

Turistike”. This competition is launched this year in Berat and Shkodra before

being progressively extend nation-wide, under the auspices of the Ministry of

Economic Development, Trade and Entrepreneurship.

Risi Albania Project has also supported the Albanian Rafting Federation for the

strategic planning development of the Albanian Adventure Resort centre. The

ecological AAR centre will offer several adventure and sports activities for

domestic and foreign markets. The centre is the first of its kind offering eco-

tourism products in Albania, helping to preserve, educate, appreciate the nature

and providing alternative employment and income opportunities for local

communities

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Spotlight on employment information and services

4 National Media are attractively broadcasting programs on career and job orientation for young people

Four national media, Top Channel, Club FM, A1 Report and Shqiptarja.com, partnering with Risialbania, are successfully

producing and disseminate their attractive shows, programs and supplements to a large audience of young people,

supported also by corresponding websites and/or Facebook pages. The three media programs “Ora e Punës” (Working

Hour) - radio-televised at Club FM and Club TV, “Ti Mundesh” (You can do it) - broadcasted at Top Channel, “Drejt Punës”

(Towards Employment) - broadcasted at A1 Report TV and the supplement “Drejt Punës” - distributed as part of

Shqiptarja.com newspaper, are becoming a valuable source of information for thousands of young people on career and job

orientation. On the other side, media have progressed to extend their audience to more young people and their parents

and profit from business sponsors, while different businesses are advertising their products to a large audience. The

audience feedback group, consisting of 20 young people from different backgrounds and different regions of Albania, under

the supervision of a media consultant, recently established by RisiAlbania, noted the good progress achieved so far. The

number of viewers/readers is relatively high and the programs are considered innovative additions to the Albanian media

landscape.

The job matching providers are offering new opportunities for young people and SMEs

The job portal “duapune.com”, with Risi’s support,

has launched the new version duapune.com 3.0 a

modern and comprehensive version with new

features and services, which has eased the application

process for young people and job postings process for

employers. Furthermore, the mobile app is now

available on Google Play and has already been

downloaded more than one thousand times and has

high user ratings. The number of job postings for the

period January-March 2015 1564, is over three-fold

increase compared with the forecasts. This is

translated in a bigger access of young people into job

opportunities.

“Profesionisti”, the newest

recruitment services in the

market, part of Celesi group,

supported by RisiAlbania

offers attractive recruitment

services to SMEs. Launched

on 1 November 2014, the

“Profesioniti” team is rapidly

increasing the number of

successful recruitments and

making good progress in

achieving their ambitious

targets.

Upcoming events

May 2015

Foreign Investments for three sectors: Agroprocessing, Tourism and IC The Foreign Investors Association of Albania (FIAA) and RisiAlbania are actively working to attract FDI to Albania. A number of meetings and workshops will be organized with chambers of commerce, embassies, associations, etc.

RisiTuristike The Award ceremony of the winners of the RisiTuristike competition will be organized on May.

ICT in Albania On May 14

th, as part of the

Innovation Week, RisiAlbania and AITA will present the results of the study on the ICT sector in Albania

Conference: labour market information, a new business for the media Based on the successful media programs supported by Risi, a second conference will be organized early July in partnership with the Faculty of Journalism.

As part of RisiAlbania support, 15 journalists from Top Channel, Club FM, A1 Report

and shqiptarja.com, together with 5 students and 2 professors from the Journalism

and Communication Department participated in the practical training with Mr. Sven

Astheimer, responsible of the labour market supplement “Beruf und chance” of the

well-known German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The Albanian

journalists found the exchange of experience with Mr.Astheimer, and his guidelines

on reporting attractively as a valuable input to increase their programs quality.

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