UNIDO’s Investment and Technology Promotion Office in Tokyo (UNIDO ITPO Tokyo) in cooperation with UNIDO ITPO Bahrain organized the second Entrepreneurship Development Training for Ukrainian Women and Youth in Japan on 9-13 September 2024 at the United Nations University in Tokyo.
The training programme was organized to support Ukrainian people living in Japan particularly evacuees and university students to become self-reliant by providing them with opportunities to learn entrepreneurship and relevant skills, enabling to generate entrepreneurial ideas and business planning for new business creation and job finding in Japan, with a view to enriching Ukrainian communities in Japan as well as giving back to Ukraine.
39 participants took part in the five-day intensive and interactive course consisting of lectures, discussions, entrepreneurs’ panel, group work, presentation, learning reflection and networking. The programme opened with remarks by Ms. Fumio Adachi, Head of ITPO Tokyo, H.E. Sergiy Korsunsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, and Mr. Ahmed Hejres, Business and Financial Counsellor at ITPO Bahrain.
Subjects covered in the lectures included entrepreneurship from the global as well as Japanese perspectives, ideation and storyline building exercises, strategy including franchising, start-up ecosystem, accounting and relevant legal matters. In the afternoon sessions from Day 2 to Day 4, and the morning of Day 5, participants were divided into six groups to work on business idea conceptualization and planning for their group assignment.
On the final day (Day 5), each group gave a short presentation of their outcomes from the group assignment and Professor Shigeo Kagami from the University of Tokyo joined Mr. Hashim Hussein and Ms. Fumio Adachi to provide constructive feedback for going forward.
Following the presentation session, a closing ceremony was held in the Reception Space joined by Mr. Tetsuya Shimokawa, Director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Ms. Alla Otverchenko, Counsellor of the Embassy of Ukraine to Japan, Hashim Hussein, Head of UNIDO ITPO Bahrain, and Ms. Fumio Adachi, Head of ITPO Tokyo.
Finally, each participant was awarded a certificate in the ceremony, followed by a networking session with industry, government and non-government guests interested in supporting Ukraine and doing businesses in Ukraine. Participating guests included Accenture, ANKH Systems, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Nakayama Iron Works, ORJ, IOS, People Cloud, Padeco and OUTSOURCING Inc.
Programme Outline
| Dates: | 9-13 September 2024 |
| Times: | 10:00-16:00 (including lunch break from 12:00-13:00) |
| Venue: | United Nations University (5-53-70 Jingūmae, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan) |
| Organizers: |
UNIDO ITPO Tokyo UNIDO ITPO Bahrain |
| Language: | English |
Contact for Inquiries
UNIDO ITPO Tokyo
Email: ukraine-edt@unido.org
