‘Dubai Expo’ to offer Emirati youths training opportunities
Apprenticeship program with ‘Jafza’
The signing of MoU which leads to integration of Expo’s successful apprenticeship program.
DUBAI, March 12: Expo 2020 Dubai’s successful Apprenticeship Programme is being integrated with a corresponding scheme at Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) to give even more young Emiratis the chance to take a positive first step on the career ladder.
The Memorandum of Understanding means the tried and tested structure and content of the Expo programme will be absorbed into the existing Tumoohi (‘My Ambition’ in Arabic) scheme run by Jafza, the UAE’s flagship trade and logistics hub
The aim is to provide an enhanced programme of more apprenticeship options that can boost the careers of increasing numbers of UAE graduates by combining knowledge and expertise from the on-the-job training they receive at the companies they join.
Her Excellency Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General, Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau, said: “Expo 2020 Dubai is about collaborative thinking — ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’ — and we can help achieve this by working with the key stakeholders who share our ambition and empowering our youth with the skills that will help them shape a wonderful future for themselves.
Benefit
“This will benefit not only the young people involved, but also our country as we move to an increasingly diversified, knowledge-based economy here in the UAE.
Youth are our future and we need to equip them with world-class skills.”
Based on international best practice, the Expo 2020 Apprenticeship Programme has included a series of intensive and varied learning modules, as well as onthe-job experience at Expo 2020 Dubai departments, including commercial, communications, events, procurement and real estate development.
Apprentices have also benefited from expert mentorship and leadership coaching from members of the Expo 2020 Dubai team.
Jafza’s Tumoohi scheme follows a similar model, offering Emirati graduates
KBC holds assembly:
Kuwait Business Council in Dubai and Northern Emirates held its General Assembly on Saturday, and members approved the 2016 and 2017 budgets.
The council, in a statement, said the members discussed financial and administrative performance since establishment until end of the fiscal year.
They reviewed a report about diversification of revenues in order to support the council’s activities for a whole year, it said.
The council said main objective of its activities was to boost presence of Kuwaiti business community in Dubai, as well as exploring further trade and investment opportunities.
The council, a non-profit organization established in Dubai in May 2016, aims at promoting expertise and trade relations of Kuwaiti businessmen and companies in Dubai in-house training and job placements within the free zone’s vast network of companies.
A signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Expo and Jafza was attended by Al Hashimy and Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman and CEO of DP World Group, which is the parent company of Jebel Ali Free Zone and one of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Premier Partners.
As part of the agreement, a number of Tumoohi trainees will complete job placements at Expo 2020 Dubai, working alongside industry experts from across the world in various departments.
This initiative underlines Expo 2020 Dubai’s ambition to work closely with all its partners — in this case DP World Group — beyond the purely commercial terms of their agreements.
Sultan Bin Sulayem said: “This is a significant step towards realising theTumoohi scheme.
We want to create a large talent pool of young nationals with the right technical skills and experience to meet the diverse needs of the UAE across the private and public sectors.
“So I am delighted that the collaboration with our colleagues at Expo 2020 Dubai offers our trainees there a once-ina-lifetime opportunity to work on a global project of such diversity and scale.
“We share the same objectives in creating lasting value for all our stakeholders and building a positive legacy for future generations.
The skills and experience they pick up at Expo should stand them in very good stead for their future careers.”
Najeeb Al-Ali, Executive Director, Bureau Expo 2020 Dubai added: “We are proud and happy to see the way the current team of Expo apprentices has developed, both personally and professionally, and they continue to make a meaningful impact on the work that is taking place behind the scenes at our offices.
“We look forward to welcoming Tumoohi trainees, seeing not only how we can support them in their development, but also the valuable contributions they can make to the first World’s Expo in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region.”
and northern Emirates. (KUNA)
Omani FM, US official meet:
Visiting US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Ambassador Stuart E. Jones met on Sunday with Omani Minister in Charge of Foreign Affairs Yousef Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah.
During the meeting, the two officials discussed issues of mutual concern and bilateral relation, Oman News Agency (ONA) reported.
The US official also met with Head of the Sultanate’s Bureau Lt General Sultan bin Mohammed AlNomani in which they discussed a number of issues in various fields, in addition to regional and international issues that concern both nations.
The US official arrived in Muscat earlier on Saturday for a two-day visit. (KUNA)