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Welcome to the September/October edition of our Global Citizenship Bulletin in EMEA

Welcome to the September/October edition of our Global Citizenship Bulletin in EMEA.

In this issue we bring you an update from a number of exciting projects that took place over the summer.

Read about Hattrick, the student team from Lithuania who are the winners of our Global Business Challenge. Following a hotly contested final in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US they were awarded the first prize of $3,000.

In Novosibirsk, Russia, HP supported a summer camp for young programmers, dedicated to developing programming skills, working with students aged 10-16. This is the third year HP has supported this summer camp, as part of an ongoing relationship with the IT and science college that organises the camp.

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This month's feature
HP and WWF join forces to support sustainable innovation award

HP and WWF have joined forces to support a Sustainable Innovation Award which was launched by Ashridge Business School and the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) in early September.

The award has been designed to generate the best ideas from MBA and other post-graduate students across Europe, the Middle East and Africa on how organisations can create value from the shift to a low-carbon economy.

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Interview
Launch of GET-IT City portal offers GET-IT training modules online

Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT (GET-IT), the joint programme developed by HP and Microenterprise Acceleration Institute (MEA-I) which offers school leavers and university graduates aged 16-25 training courses that combine business and IT skills has just become much more accessible. A new portal, the GET-IT City will offer the training content online. Serious games, a range of video and audio clips and a simulated online city will be included to make learning IT and business skills fun as well as educational.

We spoke with Jelena Godjevac, executive director of MEA-I, who told us about the features of the new portal, and how serious games can serve to increase business awareness and IT skills. .

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News from EMEA

Lithuania students win coveted HP Global Business Challenge

Students from ‘Team Hattrick’ in Lithuania were announced winners of HP’s 2008 Global Business Challenge in August, and were given a cash prize of $3,000. The challenge, now in its 13th year, is designed to increase business knowledge and skills of students from all over the world and is presented in conjunction with Junior Achievement Worldwide (JA)

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Country spotlight

HP Russia supports summer school for young programmers

HP Russia offered fundamental support to a Summer School for Young Programmers in Novosibirsk which took place this summer. The school provides IT education for 80 students aged 10-16, running two-week courses that focus on a wide variety of IT programmes, together with presentations, conferences and workshops.

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September/October 2008 issue
» Overview
» Editorial
» HP and WWF join forces to support Sustainable Innovation Award
» Launch of GET-IT City portal offers GET-IT training modules online
» Lithuania students win coveted
HP Global Business Challenge
» HP Russia supports summer school for young programmers

Global Citizenship Reports 2007 (*)
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» Italian (PDF - 2 MB)
» Poland (PDF - 1.4 MB)
» Portuguese (PDF - 1.3 MB)
» Russian (PDF - 1.4 MB)
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