WHAT IS HP LIFE ABOUT?
The World needs more Entrepreneurs!
HP Learning Initiative For Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE) is a global program that trains students, potential entrepreneurs and small business owners to harness the power of IT to establish and grow their businesses. Our face-to-face trainings and online tools address the educational needs of people, improve and strengthen their skills and enable them to move forward – regardless of backgrounds, locations or circumstance.
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LIFE empowers
Your Ideas, your Business, your LIFE
The world needs more entrepreneurs to employ more people and create more jobs. We have a simple idea: train aspiring entrepreneurs in essential business and IT skills using HP technologies, and change lives worldwide. Our vital partnerships with educational organizations MEA-I, EDC, ORT and UNIDO and new training partners in the United States and Brazil continue to spread the program worldwide. HP LIFE’s goal is to provide skills to 500,000 graduates and social innovators.
With us, you can seize opportunities and transform your life.
LIFE enables
Get the Expertise
Our trainings are innovative and interactive. They are based on a modular concept that links common business challenges and technology solutions. In our LIFE Community you can find online resources like serious games and tips for (forthcoming) entrepreneurs. These are used in the trainings and are available to everyone online.
The courses are held in regional training centers all over the world. This is core to our success. It ensures entrepreneurs receive training that is customized and reflects the conditions and challenges specific to their local communities.
Seize your chance and become independent.
LIFE is Global
And in the Field
In over 45 countries across the globe, HP LIFE has more than 340 partner organizations. Training organizations are equipped with state-of-the-art technology from HP, a leading technology provider. Training resources such as the curriculum and other innovative training materials are delivered in more than 20 languages and provided by MEA-I, an inventor of innovative learning programs.
Our program reached more than 500,000 people already. Many of them have successfully set-up businesses and transformed their life and the lives of others in their communities.
Be part of our global network. Build on our experience and support the successful microenterprises of tomorrow.
HP LIFE in Numbers
An Example of our Success
Since the launch at the end of 2008, the Center of Skill Development and Training (Censirt) in Nigeria, has trained 759 young graduates. This is what they have achieved since their training:
- 57 started their own business
- 255 found jobs in their fields of choice
- 264 were able to work more efficiently in their work places
- 33 started further studies
- 150 became secondary school students
The conclusion: Attending the HP LIFE course gives everyone new prospects.
HP LIFE is in Good Company
Hewlett-Packard
If micro-enterprises are the backbone of the global economy, then young entrepreneurs are its lifeblood. HP LIFE forms an important part of HP’s global social innovation strategy.
We’re focusing our expertise and social investment to make a real difference for beneficiaries in underserved areas. We’re applying the skills of HP people, and technology while working with expert partners, governments and aid organizations to drive innovative solutions at the root-cause of social issues particularly in health and education.
MEA-I
Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute is an international, non-profit organization that facilitates knowledge and access to IT by designing, implementing, and deploying digital acceleration centers, student-centered teaching and innovative learning programs through widely available technology.
EDC
EDC is a global, non-profit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity.
UNIDO
UNIDO is an agency of the United Nations specializing in the promotion and acceleration of sustainable industrial development for poverty reduction. They focus on globalization and environmental sustainability in the world’s poorest countries by drawing on it’s combined global resources and expertise.
» Read more how UNIDO and HP LIFE support aspiring and existing entrepreneurs
ORT
ORT is the world’s largest, Jewish, non-governmental organization for education and vocational training. Their mission is to work for the advancement of Jewish and other people through training and education which provides communities with the skills and knowledge necessary to cope with the complexities and uncertainties of their environment.
Find a center
Take charge of your life and contact a local training center. We look forward to hearing from you.
» Start nowSuccess stories
Read Rachel’s story; she attended the HP LIFE training and now is a successful farmer. Or follow Artem’s story, who has become a web desginer.
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