Citi Skills for Success Beirut Entrepreneurs Pitches

AMIDEAST Entrepreneur Institute Skills for Success® Beirut entrepreneurs pitch their startups ideas.  The program, funded by Citi Foundation, is working with more than 70 aspiring youth in four regions in Lebanon to help them find jobs or start businesses.

This event is private. Stay tuned for this program's demo day.

Designed and implemented by AMIDEAST, the program serves unemployed Lebanese technical or university education graduates aged 20-24 who are residing in all areas of Lebanon and who want to either start a business or enhance their skills to find a job. The “Skills for Success®: Employability and Entrepreneurship Program” provides intensive personal development and professional skills training, workplace experience, and career guidance to enable participants to select and successfully follow a path of employability or entrepreneurship. A total of 275 formal training hours will be complemented by practical internships, mentoring and coaching. The quality and relevance of this training will enable participants to secure meaningful and sustained employment or self-employment by the end of the program.

The program, part of the Citi Foundation’s global Pathways to Progress initiative, focuses on building a new generation of entrepreneurs and work-ready youth by helping them gain skills needed to succeed in the job market, and for those with entrepreneurial potential, to get their business ideas off the ground to found their own businesses.