Interview with MSc. Klajdi Çeka, Inspector – auditor, Albinspekt Klajdi is a 28-year-old food technologist who works at Albinspekt Ltd as an Inspector an Auditor since July 2017. Albinspekt is an agricultural inspection and certification company that operates in Albania and Kosova as part of the bio inspecta company in Switzerland. Klajdi was involved in building the company’s capacity to audit and certify companies that apply the group GlobalG.A.P standard, and in launching Agroquality, an online one-stop-shop that provides information about certification requirements that received support from RisiAlbania, a project of Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC). Klajdi is committed to increasing young people’s interest in agribusiness in Albania, and…

Career centers in Albanian universities are piloting new services and improved ones, to be implemented and offered to their students starting from academic year 2019-2020. Such services include: guidance manuals, employability and soft skills trainings, stronger linkages to business community for increased internship and employment opportunities, Career Fairs, stronger focus on Alumni Network. More than 150 students have already received employability trainings according to Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) standard, which the project has already introduced among the first group of 20 career counselors from 4 Albanian universities. RisiAlbania has a focus on strengthening career guidance services at University level to support integration of students in the labour…

102 young women and men from Lezha and surrounded areas graduated in a special ceremony after successfully completing the training courses on culinary, bartender and waiter, HACCP, ice-cream and pizzeria provided by AA Kurse Formimi Hotelerie with the support of the Swiss Government through RisiAlbania project.  Almost all of them received job offers from businesses working in the tourism sector. Nard Luli, as known as the owner of Poseidon fish restaurant in Tale, Lezhe was among the invitees at the ceremony and proudly told us that 9 people, existing and recently recruited staff, completed the training on bartending, restaurant, culinary and HACCP courses. “I own a fish restaurant…

Unlocking the agribusiness sector potential for growth is key to creating quality employment opportunities for young women and men in Albania. To achieve this, RisiAlbania supports rural businesses to grow, to export to high-value Western Europe markets and to expand their economic activities. The project is working on two fast-growing subsectors: fruits and vegetables, and Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs). The project is targeting 300 full-time jobs to be created by the end of the project through its agribusiness partnerships. In fruits and vegetables, the project has supported so far two agrocollectors for the implementation of GlobalG.A.P group certification, Tomato.al which has already certified a group of farmers,…

Risi has supported the launch of 3 new media products (TV and Online) focused on career orientation for young people and their parents in Albania. This support is part of Risi strategy to stimulate media to play an ongoing role in career orientation and employment. Every Sunday, young, talented women and men competed to be “The best in the country” through a marathon of professions like waiter, bartender, receptionist, floor manager, etc. informing but also changing perception on different professions. This TV Show started in April and is broadcasted on Albanian Public Television from the author and TV presenter Iva Mera. Watch full episodes HERE. An interesting format…