Moscow, April 5, 2017 – UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL, Moscow Exchange: RUAL/RUALR), a leading global aluminium producer, announces the launch of an online Social Entrepreneurship School. Organized by RUSAL's Centre for Innovations in Social Field, the Internet-platform will allow acquiring a quality business education and developing and independent project for solving social problems.
The participants in this project may be start-up entrepreneurs, businessmen with experience in the business area, and, also, representatives of non-profit organizations.
The education in the online school will be remote. The course will consist of 12 thematic blocks, each of which includes a video lecture, abstract, a test, the form of the business plan element, useful materials and a platform for communicating with other participants in the programme. A series of additional webinars is also planned.
The best students will be given the opportunity to receive individual consultations from the tutors of RUSAL's local School of Social Entrepreneurship. The education will result in a ready business plan for a project in the field of social entrepreneurship.
'RUSAL is developing the full-time educational programmes for social entrepreneurs since 2013 in six cities of Siberia and the Urals. The online school is intended to replicate the best experience of our educational program for social entrepreneurs in new territories and for new participants, who previously did not have the opportunity to receive a full business training. We are convinced that thanks to the online school, the number of interesting, useful and sustainable socially oriented enterprises and projects will increase, and the number of social problems will decrease,' said Vera Kurochkina, Deputy General Director of RUSAL.
To study in RUSAL's online school of social entrepreneurship RUSAL you must register on the site http://www.fcsp.ru/edu. The first intake of students will last until May 3, 2017, the training will be free of charge.
The administration and organizational support of the programme is carried out by RUSAL's Center for Innovation in the Social Field. For details about the programme visit the site http://www.fcsp.ru.
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The School of Social Entrepreneurship is one of the key components of RUSAL's social entrepreneurship development program. In the school, the participants get acquainted with the best international and Russian business experience, study business planning, learn about the legal and financial aspects of entrepreneurship, about the state, regional and municipal programmes of support for small and medium-size businesses. The school has a tutoring system and a mentor support for projects.
As of today, 738 entrepreneurs have been trained in this school; they have developed 106 effective socially oriented business projects. The total investments of the company into the programme amount to more than 20 million rubles.