As part of the "Growing through Agricultural Education" program, funded by the Romanian American Foundation, JA Romania will run the AGRISchool PLUS project from 2024 to 2026.

Through this project, students from agricultural high schools learn about development opportunities and the entrepreneurial knowledge and skills they need to become agricultural entrepreneurs.

The main goal of the project is to prepare agricultural high school students for business success by providing practical entrepreneurship education and cooperating with the local business environment.

AGRISchool PLUS is built on JA's INSPIRE, PREPARE, SUCCEED new strategic learning structure as a hybrid learning experience and teacher-student-community exchange.

• INSPIRE: in-school program for students from at least 30 agricultural high schools
• PREPARE: trainings, webinars, Innovation Day for teachers and students
• SUCCEED: Summer School for teachers and JA Incubator (Business and Jobs) for students

The project will include the following main activities:

• Mini Enterprise annual international entrepreneurship education program for students and teachers
• Summer School for Agricultural High School Teachers
• Innovation Days/Fairs/Entrepreneurship Events
• Case studies for agricultural businesses
• Teacher trainings – online/hybrid
• JA Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Workshops (Business Incubator) and Gen-E national competition for student teams and start-ups

During the project, students develop key entrepreneurial skills, have access to national and European applied learning opportunities, and receive support from business volunteers.

Skills developed by students in the program:

• Creativity
• Team spirit
• Perseverance
• Self-confidence
• Initiative
• Accountability
• Risk-taking
• Understanding and managing resources

The "Growing Through Agricultural Education" program brings agricultural education together with new technologies and the business environment to support the performance of high school teachers and managers, as an example of effective cooperation between the public, private and civil society sectors to help develop a generation of young farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs.

The “Growing Through Agricultural Education“ program is funded by the Romanian American Foundation (RAF) and is carried out by a consortium of organizations that include: World Vision Foundation Romania, Junior Achievement Romania, Civitas Foundation for Civil Society Cluj and the Romanian Center for European Policies.