Telenor’s corporate responsibility report
GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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As part of our continuous efforts to support
young people and build a bridge between
business and academia, Telenor support-
ed Junior Achievement’s new green initiative
“Green Entrepreneurship for Sustainable De-
velopment”. The project was developed joint-
ly with the Norwegian Young Enterprise Sogn
og Fjordane and aims at giving students the
opportunity to learn how a business can be
sustainable, as well as try to create a “green”
business themselves. A special video-course
was designed for the initiative featuring Yas-
sen Guev, Telenor Bulgaria Chief Corporate Af-
fairs Officer, as a guest speaker.
Vera Petkantchin,
Director of Operations at Junior Achievement Bulgaria
We contacted Telenor regarding our project Green Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Develop
ment, which we implemented jointly with JA Sogn og Fjordane and we invited Yassen Guev to
be a guest speaker on corporate responsibility in our online sustainability video course for high
school students. It was one of the most viewed and commented guest lectures that presented the
viewpoint and concrete actions of the corporate sector on sustainability. Later during the year,
we were invited to be part of the jury that had to select the Bulgarian participants in the second
Telenor Youth Summit, where we met many motivated young Bulgarian people who presented
their ideas for socially beneficial projects, and we chose two of them to travel to Norway and meet
other young people from different countries at the Telenor Youth Summit.
Telenor also participated in our annual early career development initiative - „Manager for a Day“,
as part of which managers welcome students for a day in order to tell them about what their
companies do. The program encourages students to think about their future career development
and occasionally even lead to internship or a career employment opportunity later on. We are
happywegot invitedtobepart of the juryteamofTelenor’sproject fortechnologicalmodernization
of the Bulgarian schools, coming up in 2015. We hope for an even more successful year for our
well-established partnership.
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