Dubai – Decypha: Expo 2020 Dubai’s Apprenticeship Programme and Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide Emirati youth with training programmes designed to help them take a first step on the career ladder.
The MoU means the tried and tested structure and content of the Expo programme will be absorbed into the existing Tumoohi (‘My Ambition’ in Arabic) scheme run by Jafza, the UAE’s flagship trade and logistics hub.
The aim is to provide an enhanced programme of more apprenticeship options that can boost the careers of increasing numbers of UAE graduates by combining knowledge and expertise from the on-the-job training they receive at the companies they join.
“Expo 2020 Dubai is about collaborative thinking – ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’ – and we can help achieve this by working with the key stakeholders who share our ambition and empowering our youth with the skills that will help them shape a wonderful future for themselves,” commented Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General, Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau.
Based on international best practice, the Expo 2020 Apprenticeship Programme has included a series of intensive and varied learning modules, as well as on-the-job experience at Expo 2020 Dubai departments, including commercial, communications, events, procurement and real estate development. Jafza’s Tumoohi scheme follows a similar model, offering Emirati graduates in-house training and job placements within the free zone’s vast network of companies.
A signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Expo and Jafza was attended by Her Excellency Al Hashimy and Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman and CEO of DP World Group, which is the parent company of Jebel Ali Free Zone and one of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Premier Partners.
As part of the agreement, a number of Tumoohi trainees will complete job placements at Expo 2020 Dubai, working alongside industry experts from across the world in various departments.
This initiative underlines Expo 2020 Dubai’s ambition to work closely with all its partners – in this case DP World Group – beyond the purely commercial terms of their agreements.
