Milena is an entrepreneur and CEO of Junior Achievement, Bulgaria. She has been working in the field of economics, business and entrepreneurship education and human capital development for more than 20 years. Her professional expertise also includes establishing academia-business partnerships, NGO development, and fundraising. She has extensive experience in international organizations and companies. She serves on the entrepreneurship and science core group of several corporate partners. Her professional interest is focused on ICT in entrepreneurship development. Since 2013, she has been delivering courses in business development and technology entrepreneurship for some of the EIT ICT Labs in Europe.

Education is the building block of any society, and there is a need for new teaching methods, new frameworks, and new models in order to better equip tomorrow’s generations for the evolving reality of our world. Milena Stoycheva will argue that innovation and entrepreneurship education is essential for creating the societies of the future.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx