Youth is for business with “human face”!
December 8, in Almaty Management University (earlier IAB) started V annual business economic game “I am entrepreneur” among students of colleges of Almaty city. The interesting thing is that many students presented projects oriented on social entrepreneurship. It is obvious that modern youth does not only care about making money, but also about public service.
One of the participants, Dmitriy He, student of IAB college, represented project on building of special oxygen “capsules”, which can be set in huge cities and where any citizen of megalopolis will be able to enter and make a sip of fresh air. Student proposes to solve the problem of oxygen hunger with such a creative method.
Third year students of IAB college Eldar Mashurov and Dauletkhan Turlybekov under the management of teacher Natalya Gubanova presented the idea of creation mini-factory in Almaty on recycling of used tires. How future entrepreneurs calculated, there should be no problem with the raw materials market in city-millionaire. Continuing growth of car park in Almaty brings to the increase of the amount of used tires which can’t be biologically decomposed and are flammable. Guys suggested ecologically safe and economically beneficial system of collecting and recycling of waste tires, and made very detailed SWOT analysis, analysis of the market of raw materials and sale, step by step technical plan, which certainly helped them to earn the trust and high grades from the side of jury. The sum of necessary investments in the project, according to guys’ calculations, will be a little bit more than 294 million tenge, the output can vary from new tires, hoses, water-repellent coverage to railway sleepers, soles for shoes and many other.
Maxim Tsymbalov (3rd year) and Kristina Phedoseeva (2nd year) from the college of tourism industry and hospitability (scientific supervisor – Irina Anaytova) suggested social project – “Storm of Mercy”, idea of which is in organization of different creative courses and holidays for kids who have oncological diseases. Students voiced official statistics: there are 80 people suffered from cancer are revealing in Kazakhstan every day and most of them are kids. Students dream of helping children to cope with psychological problems caused by disease, because friends’ support and lively participation of people around often make impact on recovery of the health. Maxim and Kristina showed their social responsibility and organized master classes on origami, bioceramics, conducted interesting holidays for suffered children.
Alfiya Khismatullina, director of IAB college noted that this year a bigger number of social projects aimed to help suffered from disease people and homeless animals participated. According to her words, the best projects will be left without attention of organizers and after the competition: “Of course, students have lack of experience in terms of getting credit for development of business. But as a result of the event we have already received an offer from ESC – entrepreneurs service center – to help with consultation of the youth and provision of juristic, marketing, accounting and other services”.
As organizers told, the game sets a goal to increase the level of knowledge of students about entrepreneurship, mechanisms of business-projects management and development of innovational potential of the youth in economic and entrepreneurial spheres. In total, there were represented 60 projects of such directions as: production, services, ecology, tourism, trade. According to results, 20 top places were awarded, what show the high level of quality of provided projects.
First place was divided between three projects, two of which belong to students of IAB college: “Recycling of used tires” and “Learning Center on education of financial literacy”, and the third one called “The Storm of Mercy” – to the college of the industry of tourism and hospitability.
The second place was awarded to several projects at once: Almaty college of economics and law (project “Energy and fuel without danger to environment”), Almaty financial-legal and technical college (project “Manufacturing of equipment for playgrounds and hangars”), college of tourism and hospitability industry (project “Implementation of innovational technologies in restaurant business”), Almaty college of service maintenance (project “Aquaponika”), Almaty state college of technologies and floristics (project “Sunny day”) and IAB college (project theatre “Sunrise”).
Third place was divided by 6 colleges, including Almaty state polytechnic college, Almaty college of fashion and design, IAB college, college “Adilet”, Almaty financial-legal and technological college and Almaty state college of new technologies.
Organizers of the game – college International Academy of Business gave an opportunity to participants to meet and talk to young and successful businessmen of Kazakhstan and also organized interesting excursion to SEZ Park of innovational technologies “Alatau”. Significant help in organization of the event was made by akimat of Almaty city, education management, house of entrepreneurs of Almaty city, Almaty association of colleges, “Nur Otan” party and also Almaty Management University (earlier IAB).
In the event took part representatives of British Council, Charity Foundation “Eldani”, “Damu” Foundation, Chevron Munaigas, Kaspi Bank, Sberbank, Coca-Cola Bottlers Almaty, Abdi, Procter & Gamble, Raimbek – Bottlers and other huge companies.
