JADE
European Confederation of Junior Enterprises Students Fostering Entrepreneurship. Since 1967.
Annual Report 2017/2018
We empower, through the Junior Enterprise concept,
students capable and committed to generate a relevant impact __ Network Statement of Purpose
Š Copyright JADE - European Confederation of Junior Enterprises Published in Brussels, Belgium by JADE aisbl June 2018 Avenue du Frioul 51, Evere, 1140, Belgium mail@jadenet.org
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Contents 3 | Foreword 4 | Endorsements 7 | Our Network 9 | Our Junior Entrepreneurs 11 | JADE outlook 13 | A global vocation 15 | Goal: a better world
17 | A flourishing Network 19 | Growing together 21 | A brighter future 23 | Looking forward 25 | Special thanks
JADE’s Annual Report aims at sharing with all our members, partners, and stakeholders the achievements of the European and global Junior Enterprise movement over the last year.
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As a Network, JADE can reach every year new heights only thanks to the collaboration of a number of different stakeholders: once a year, we want to take the chance to thank them all, to make a point on the current situation of the Junior Enterprise network in Europe and beyond, and to set even more daring targets for the year to come.
Annual Report 2017/2018
Foreword If we want to success, we need to fight for the right purpose, as a team, and according to a plan. If we want to succeed, we need to fight for the right purpose. We found in the Junior Enterprise concept our way to empower thousands of students and to make them the driving force pushing for a better future and better world. More than 28 thousand students in Europe embrace this call to action daily. Their efforts drive JADE’s motivation to fight for a better education.
Diogo Parreira JADE President
It is my team’s pleasure to present to you the JADE
Annual Report 2017/2018 and to share with you some of the accomplishments JADE
and our Network have achieved.
It was an honour to represent and enhance the Impact of Junior Enterprises. Ad Maiora.
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If we want to succeed, we need to discover and re-discover the power of synergy. We discovered in our Network the strength to dare to challenge our own limits. We are building upon our differences a common strategy that boosts our development in 21 countries by 2021. We are leading the Network towards a brighter future. If we want to succeed, we need to explore our potential and convert our dreams into our goals; strategies into actions. We have clear JADE’s potential and we defined the roadmap that will lead us to deliver more added-value. We are working with all our stakeholders on offering the Junior Enterprise experience to more students and to generate an impact that matters. The precious legacy we received from more than 50 years of a success story motivated the new milestones we have achieved. We look at the future with an exciting view, believing that together, we will continue to grow and to achieve new heights.
After one intensive year, I am proud of our legacy and I trust in the future of JADE.
Make sure that the impact you want to have tomorrow, is only a result of the actions you are taking today.
Alfonso Catone
Adrien Lepic
Giorgio Sleiter
JADE Vice President
JADE Secretary General
JADE Treasurer Foreword
Europe’s Junior Enterprises are leading the way.
Thanks to your efforts, our future is a bright one. __ Jean-Claude Juncker President of the European Commission
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Endorsements
Europe's Junior Enterprises are leading the way.
By helping young people to develop both technical competence and soft skills - the ability to solve problems, communicate, work in a team, manage time and show leadership - you are nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs. You are building a vital partnership between higher education and the world of work, ensuring that teaching and learning adapt to our fast-changing economy. The European Commission is proud to support your efforts. Our Investment Plan for Europe is improving financing opportunities for new entrepreneurs and start-ups. Our new Skills Agenda for Europe will help young people to acquire the right mix of skills. Our programme, Erasmus+, will help more than four million young people to study, train, work and volunteer in another country. I have no doubt that Europe's Junior Enterprises will take full advantage of these opportunities. Thanks
to your efforts, our future is a bright one. __
Jean-Claude Juncker
President of the European Commission
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Endorsements
Bridging the gap between education and the labour market and fostering an entrepreneurial mindset is vital – for policy-makers as well as for business and civil society. The work of
organisations like the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises (JADE) has an important part to play in this.
I would like to express my strong support to
them and all the Junior Enterprises across Europe; through their daily activities, they
support young people in developing valuable skills, boosting their entrepreneurial spirit and ensuring a smooth transition to the job market. This is an excellent way to help ensure that Europe fully taps its most precious resource: the talent of its people.
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Tibor Navracsics Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
I support the Junior Enterprise Network in Europe for its work in fostering entrepreneurial skills and youth employment.
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Marianne Thyssen Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
The JADE student network aims to help students in developing technical and interpersonal skills for entrepreneurship and to practice corporate social responsibility. This is expected
to impact on the productivity of the workforce and to have a positive impact on the business world. __
Source: European Commission report - ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: A ROAD TO SUCCESS - A compilation of evidence on the impact of entrepreneurship education strategies and measures (2015)
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Our Network We empower, through the Junior Enterprise concept, students capable and committed
to generate a relevant impact __ Network Statement of Purpose
14
European countries
empowering
Junior Enterprises
Junior Entrepreneurs, university students
330 28’000
51 years 4,350 of history
consulting projects per year
14.6Mâ‚Ź cumulated turnover
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Our Network
A Junior Enterprise is a non-profit organization, formed and managed exclusively by university students, which provides services for companies, institutions and individuals. Junior Enterprises are similar to real companies, with the main goal of enhancing the learning of their members through practical experiences. To promote the learning by doing philosophy
To develop entrepreneurial skills
To encourage a business education approach
Students learn how to strategically manage and develop a company by working in their Junior Enterprise.
Recognizing opportunities, planning, implementing and generating results – Junior Enterprises are a lab to develop skills.
The learnings from classes are put into practice, through hands-on projects addressing complex business challenges and upto-date market trends.
To enhance students’ employability
To foster social and economic growth
Junior Enterprises form committed and skilled students, enhancing their employability rate up to 20 percentage points.
Fostering growth in the local SMEs and creating more businesses (2x more propensity), students learn and deliver concrete results.
Alumni from our Junior Enterprises I would say that if I wouldn’t have had the chance to participate in a JE,
I wouldn't be able to build a successful start-up to disrupt a huge
Manuel Heitor
Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal
market.
It is really awesome how much you can learn when you are working as a student consultant. Jacob Sass CEO of Advocado (one of the fastest growing Legal-Tech-Startups in Germany)
Susanne Mitschke Co-Founder and CEO of Mindmate
Tomasz Rudolf
Founder and CEO of The Heart, European center for corporatestartup collaboration
Dilek Ayhan
Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum \ Former Secretary of State
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Our Junior Entrepreneurs The top 1% that is changing Europe every day Students driven by deep values
__ Together We Grow We believe in the strength of the Network and in the power of synergies. Despite our diversity, we work together, with a common purpose, to make a relevant impact.
__ Entrepreneurial Mindset
We identify new opportunities and always seek new challenges. We are not afraid of innovation and new ideas – we rather embrace them, making things happen.
__ Meaningful Results
We work professionally with clear goals in mind for purposes we identify ourselves with. We are always committed to delivering value and go even further than what was expected.
__ Driven Attitude
We act value driven and with integrity to reach new heights. Our goals are ambitious, but our determination and passion are even bigger. We prefer actions to words and goals to dreams.
JADE Autumn Conference 2017 - Hannover
JADE Spring Conference 2018 - Brussels
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JADE May Conference 2018 - Lisbon
Vice President Katainen (EC)
Summer JADE Conference - Milan Our Junior Entrepreneurs
Our Junior Entrepreneurs are bright motivated young people willing to take a step forward to improve not only their own education and skills but also the world around them. They chose to dedicate a large part of their time, alongside their studies, to the development of their Junior Enterprises, to the realization of projects for their clients, and to the recruitment and the training of those that after them will manage the organization. They impact their peers, by
inspiring them in challenging their limits and push forward the boundaries of their university education. But they also impact the society and the (business) environment around them: they
offer accessible consultancy services to small companies and SMEs, helping them to pursue upto-date trends, expand their business and grow at European and global level.
The Junior Entrepreneurs are one
of the driving forces of change in today’s Europe, working every day
not only to become better professionals but also better (European) active citizens. By being exposed to such experiences, Junior Entrepreneurs are aware of the challenges of our today’s world and work hard to find their solutions and role
towards a better future and a better world.
90%
of the Junior Entrepreneurs is satisfied with the JE experience
89%
95%
would recommend the JE experience to a friend
+20pp
feels more prepared to enter in the labour market
employability of a Junior Entrepreneur after graduating
82%
76%
acquired knowledge in other fields of study
learnt how to run a business/organization
89%
75%
expanded or developed competencies
recognizes the added-value of the international Network
most developed competencies
communication leadership learning by doing planning and management academic background of the Junior Entrepreneurs
business and economics engineering and IT law and social sciences expectations for the next years
more challenging projects higher social impact higher recognition from academia and business Source: JADE Network today’s outlook report (JADE, 2018)
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JADE outlook JADE is the umbrella organization that represents, integrates and supports the
European Network of Junior Enterprises Enhancing the Network. Since 1992.
JADE is a students NGO based in Brussels, from where we coordinate the activities in our 14 countries and with other international Confederations of Junior Enterprises.
We work closely with corporate partners, as well as with the European institutions to influence policy-making on entrepreneurial education, sustainable development and social economy. JADE is a bottom-up organization: the Junior Entrepreneurs choose the leaders of their Junior Enterprises to guide the organization, manage the relationship with clients and suppliers, partners and in general all the external stakeholders.
At the national level, the Junior Enterprises elect their country representatives, who work to promote the JE concept and answer the needs of their Junior Enterprises at country-level. Each country elects its International Manager, responsible for ensuring effective communication between the national and the European level, JADE. All the national representatives
elect the JADE Executive Board
which, from Brussels, represents the European Network and keeps the relationship with the partners, institutions, and the other confederations in the world.
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JADE outlook
92%
of JADE members consider JADE crucial for the development of the Network
74%
of Junior Entrepreneurs thinks JADE gives credibility to the Network
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European countries
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[Germany]
[Spain]
Members
26
years of history
[France]
[Belgium]
1967
first Junior Enterprise (ESSEC, Paris \ France)
[Romania]
[Austria]
[Italy]
[Poland]
[Switzerland]
[Portugal]
[Netherlands]
1969
first JE Confederation (CNJE \ France)
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[Sweden]
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[Croatia]
[UK]
A global vocation
+40
countries with Junior Enterprises or initiatives
+50’000 Junior Entrepreneurs worldwide
The Junior Enterprise concept crossed the European borders in 1988, when the first Brazilian Junior Enterprise was created. Since then, it has been enlarged to America and Asia. In 2016, JADE, together with other international Confederations founded the Junior Enterprise Global Council. This leaders’ structure aims to connect, enlarge and support the Junior Enterprise Network at the global level, while fostering and strengthening the JE concept. It is today the main
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JE Global Council
Other International Confederations
Brasil Júnior Since 2003
Junior Enterprises of Tunisia Since 2013
A global vocation
The Junior Enterprise World Conference – the biggest global event of the Network will take place in July, in Lyon, France. We will gather hundreds of participants coming from all around the world for 3 days of connections and shared learning.
Our common goal is a blue map!
The Junior Enterprise World Day was celebrated on the November 22nd (during the Global Entrepreneurship Week) – connecting Junior Enterprises to exchange best practices and to grow in synergy.
Countries the Junior Enterprise concept is reaching Algeria (JI) \ Arabia (JI) \ Argentina (JE) \ Benin (JI) \ Bolivia (JE) \ Cambodia (JI) \ Chile (JE) \ China (JI) \ Colombia (JE) \ Costa Rica (JE) \ Ecuador (JE) \ Gabon (JE) \ India (JE) \ Ivory Coast (JI) \ Japan (JI) \ Kenya (JE) \ Libya (JI) \ Malaysia (JE) \ Mexico (JE) \ Mozambique (JE) \ Nepal (JI) \ New Caledonia (JI) \ Panama (JI) \ Paraguay (JI) \ Peru (JI) \ Saudi South Africa (JE) \ Senegal (JE) \ Singapore (JI) \ Vietnam (JI)
Confederated countries Junior Enterprise/Junior Initiative
Junior Consulting Confederation of Canada Since 2015
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Junior Enterprise USA Since 2016
Confédération des JuniorEntreprises Marocaines Since 2016 Annual Report 2017/2018
Junior-Entreprises Cameroun Since 2017
Goal: a better world All the Global Goals are connected, but a progress on the education goal (SDG4) is the
one that influences the others the most. __ Source: Better Business Better World 2017 \ Business & Sustainable Development Commission
The goal number 4, “Quality of Education” is defined as: “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. Within this statement, the Junior
Enterprise concept can play a key role: a student NGO, exclusively run by students, which provides services to companies and organizations with the main goal of developing the skills of its members. Junior Enterprises complement every day the education of more than 50.000 young people with a hands-on experience, boosting their employability, their willingness to start a business. JADE believes that, due to the important role that Junior Enterprises are playing, it is important that we call our
Network to take action and help them to acknowledge their impact. The Global Goals are
meant to be achieved by 2030: but is this possible without the involvement of the next generation of adults?
Our work towards the SDGs
Generations Club 2017
Pact4Youth Summit
Generation Club aims at
JADE President, Diogo Parreira, was keynote speaker in the Pact4Youth Summit, in front of an audience of 600+ C-level people.
bridging the senior and the junior generations, gathering students, companies and institutions around the same topic.
The last edition topic was “Sustainable Innovation” – how can we create the right environment and incentives to pursue it.
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Companies and institutions
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“We want to continue to leave a mark in the education system of so many countries. To fight for a better education and a more prepared generation for the challenges of our world. Initiatives as the Pact4Youth renew our motivation to do more and to do better.”
Student organizations
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Goal: a better world
Our next steps We want to encourage even more our 330 Junior Enterprises, to deliver projects that impact the SDGs
We generate impact Motto of JADE Spring Conference 2018
We want to empower even more our 28’000 students to discover the SDGs and find their individual contribution towards their achievement
Opening Ceremony, JSC18
JADE Spring Conference 2018
Brussels SDG Summit
The JSC18 was a call to
JADE participated in the Brussels SDG Summit, organized by CSR Europe to showcase the JE concept and its contribution towards the SDGs.
action to inspire the Junior Entrepreneurs to maximize their impact over a better education; a more competitive business world and a better world.
18 nationalities met in Brussels for 3 unforgettable days of knowledge sharing and inspiring speeches.
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400+ 18 Junior Entrepreneurs
countries
80%
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satisfaction rate
partners
30+
Lisa Kingo, CEO / UN Global Compact
Thank you for your efforts to
create a more sustainable future and world.
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JosĂŠ Manuel Fernandes Member of the European Parliament
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workshops
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A flourishing Network By 2030, we want to be present in all the European countries and give more students the opportunity of embracing the JE experience.
Let’s create a JE
JADE is working to enlarge the Junior Enterprise concept into more countries in Europe. We contact universities, professors, companies and institutions, students and students’ associations to help us find the
right students to create a Junior Enterprise. Supported by the European Commission, JADE travelled to Croatia and to Bulgaria to, during the University-Business Forum, introduce the JE concept to more universities and to foster the creation of more Junior Enterprises.
Thematic University-Business Forum 2017, Croatia
University-Business Forum 2018, Bulgaria
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we are working with 16 European countries to create a first JE
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Junior Enterprises fit perfectly the ideal definition of contemporary startup: rather than only profit-seeking, they are
we are following 10 groups of students who are already creating their JE
building causes. __
Myltos Kyrkos MEP
Countries part of JADE Network
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Target countries where we are working to create the first JE
More A flourishing Network
A 50-year story marked by outstanding projects only possible due to an extraordinary commitment from different generations of Junior Entrepreneurs
A virtual city to connect the world JE EPFL (Switzerland) created a virtual city to connect people from all
over the world in one second – people would spend time with their friends or family, have a business meeting, interviews, etc. The innovation comes from a helmet that will record the face of the user and transfer every emotion, grin, smile, in real time, in the virtual world. Your interlocutors see you as you truly are. The JE worked on the development of the software and prototype, upgrading the current algorithm in order to have high-quality live 3D generated face.
Junior Enterprise of the Year 2018
Changing the way factories storage Junior Central Supelec (France) worked on an application using
Most Innovative Project 2018
A contribution to a better world
Most Socially Responsible Project 2018
HoloLenses, connecting them directly to the Factory Navigator API. This new application allows employees to visualize information regarding the industry’s ERP, directly from inside the factory, through augmented reality provided by the glasses. For instance, by only looking at a box with these glasses, one can immediately know if the box is either empty or full of a certain content.
Junior Enterprise Genève (Switzerland) created a Legal Council, a non-
profit law office operated exclusively by students. They advise students, refugees, young entrepreneurs or anybody in need of legal assistance regarding their rights and obligations as well as advice on ways to proceed and referrals to available resources to assist them in resolving their issues. The goal is to pursue the SDG 16 - reduce inequalities and for peace, justice and strong institutions. More than 200 were already helped.
Most Entrepreneurial Junior Enterprise 2018
Creating a snowball of entrepreneurial success LSM Conseil (Belgium) worked on a business plant to help Bernard
Cosyns, a legal expert, to finally launch his company. The project included a market analysis to evaluate the demand and surveying the competition to determine how he should position the company and a strategic, financial and operational marketing plan. The project was delivered, the company created. Today, Mr Cosyns helps other students to launch their own business by providing them legal advice.
JADE Excellence Awards 2018
Most International Junior Enterprise 2018
Jury of the Awards Nestlé | Santander | ABIS | EIT EIIL | BUSINESSEUROPE 18
Most Promising Junior Enterprise 2018
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Growing together We are co-creating the future of our Network by strengthening our collaboration 6 international conferences JADE Autumn Conference
gathered our Members in Hannover, Germany for 3 days of strategic discussions. JADE Spring Conference brought 400 people to Brussels for the biggest event in JADE’s history. JADE May Conference gathered more than 100 Junior Entrepreneurs to Lisbon. JEWC (in July) will gather hundreds of Junior Entrepreneurs from all around the world. Besides them, JADE Strategic Conference and the National Board Summit gathered our Members’ leaders to discuss the future of our Network.
1,000+
Junior Entrepreneurs involved in international conferences
National Board Summit 2017, in Belgium
A European pool of trainers We created a pool which will gather trainers from the different countries of our Network to be trained at the European level. With this strategy, we plan to reach more Junior Entrepreneurs with improved training sessions.
90h
hours of training delivered in 2017/2018 JADE Autumn Conference 2017, in Germany
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countries reached
A new way to enhance our Confederations We developed a self-assessment tool that our members can use to better understand their maturity and plan their strategy in a sustainable way. This tool contains development scenarios connected to a library of resources and case studies that collects the best practices from the Network. Parallel to this project, 10 best practices books were created for Confederations and Junior Enterprises.
JADE May Conference 2018, in Portugal
topics of the best practices books
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Growing together
We have participated in many events
to promote and strengthen the Junior Enterprise concept As an expert organization on student entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial education and skills, as well as a facilitator for youth employment and the stepping stone between university education and business practice, we attended several high-level events in and outside Brussels. > Keynote Speaker at the Pact4Youth Summit (Belgium) With Antonio Tajani, President of the EP
> Panel Speaker at the University-Business Forums (Croatia and Bulgaria) > Participant in the SME Envoy Meetings (Portugal, Belgium, Estonia, Denmark, Netherlands and Cyprus) > Participant in the ABIS Annual Colloquium (Belgium) > Participant in the Think Digital Summit (Belgium) > Participant in the European Business Summit and Brussels SDG Summit (Belgium)
With Commissioner Thyssen
> Participation in VIVA Technology (France) > Participation in 28th Congress of EAPM (European Association of People Management) (France) > Participation in the HEInnovate events (Belgium and Bulgaria) and many others.
With Commissioner Bienkowska
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Members visited
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To strengthen our Network, we travelled to several of our country-members and participated in their national events and to get to know what Junior Enterprises and Junior Entrepreneurs are doing in each country. We visited: Belgium / Italy / France / Germany / Netherlands / Poland / Portugal / Spain / UK Annual Report 2017/2018
A brighter future Europe’s Junior Enterprises are leading the way. Thanks to your
efforts, our future is a bright one. __ Jean-Claude Juncker President of the European Commission
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Confederations realised it was time to create a European structure to develop the Network. JADE was, therefore, founded in 1992. Now, after 25 years of JADE, we realised that defining a strategy only for JADE (organizational strategy) is not enough to foster the growth we all have desired. We believe that if we define common goals – to be achieved by each one of the JADE Members – we will be growing at a much faster rate and accomplish a more assertive development for the European JE Network. That is the definition of Network Strategy: a plan that will shape the future of the entire Network – Confederations and Junior Enterprises – committing them towards shared goals and convictions; a single direction to a
brighter future.
650+ 14 people heard
countries involved
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After almost 12 months of consultations and discussions, the Network agreed on three main KPIs to achieve by 2021. Discover more
460 Junior Enterprises in Europe (+40%)
o 5.600
330
Projects delivered in collaboration between 2+ JEs
Projects delivered to clients (+30%)
strategic events A brighter future
Strategic goals for the development of the Network
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Create more Junior Enterprises
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Ensure high-quality
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Foster synergies
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Promote a common identity
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High-performing structure
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Acquire more projects
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Enhance the JE experience
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Recognize the JE concept
The eight strategic goals pursue three main ideas: (1) We enhance the development of our Network, improving the quality of our Junior Enterprises and pursuing sustainable enlargement activities; (2) We are more connected and we work more together, as a Network, aligning roles and actively exchanging knowledge; (3) We increase our recognition in the society, by delivering more projects, adding more value to the Junior Entrepreneurs and to the business world. 22
Additionally, JADE will focus on three
internal goals to develop itself as an organization: (I) Recruit and develop a high-
performance team; (II) Shape the structure to deliver more value; (III) Ensure financial sustainability. The strategy implementation starts on the January 1st, 2019.
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Looking forward JADE’s future consists of four extraordinary Junior Entrepreneurs who together build the next JADE Executive Board.
David Gomes
Isabella Florio
Diogo Carriço
Alex Lanaro
Head of Strategy, Events, Human Resources and International Relations
Head of Public Affairs, Alumni Management, Legal, IT and HQ Management
Head of Enlargement, Network Quality, Training and Internal Communication
Head of Finance, Private Cooperation and Communication
President
Vice President
Secretary General Treasurer
The new JADE Executive Board is taking over the organization from August 2018. We believe this heterogeneous team made up by experiences as well as fresh Junior Entrepreneurs has what is necessary to succeed and to
achieve outstanding results.
“Throughout the more than 50 years of history of the Junior Enterprise concept, we have worked to leave our mark in the way entrepreneurship is delivered through higher education. We wanted our impact to be felt in three major levels of our life, these being the academia, business world and also our very own society. It is by undertaking an entrepreneurial approach through these levels that personal development can be seen in Junior entrepreneurs. This team is more than ever committed to strengthening the network, because we believe that the network itself is the major force that can lead us to have an even greater impact. And this is the DNA of a Junior Entrepreneur.” __ David Gomes
New projects we are excited about
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New Network branding
Junior Connect platform
European JE Alumni pool
We are working on a new articulated branding between all the European Confederations Members of JADE to enhance our common identity and strengthen our visibility.
We just launched a platform that will connect all the Junior Enterprises and Junior Entrepreneurs in our Network – strengthening knowledge exchange, and facilitating synergies and projects in collaboration.
We will create an Alumni community to gather all the Alumni coming from Junior Enterprises and National Confederations, thus increasing the connection of the Network to the business world.
Looking forward
Our next events
JUL 26th.29th
Junior Enterprise World Conference Lyon, France
NOV 16th.18th
NOV 6th
London, UK
Brussels, Belgium
JADE Autumn Conference
Generations Club
MAR 2019
MAY 2019
Brussels, Belgium
To be defined
JADE Spring Conference
JADE May Conference
JUL 2019
Summer JADE Conference To be defined
For further information, contact JADE mail@jadenet.org
European JE Observatory
New Global Strategy
JADE Spring Conference 2019
We will launch an observatory that will monitor the performance of the Network and the implementation of the Network Strategy.
We will start the implementation of the new Global Strategy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that defines guidelines to all the international Confederations in order to foster a more connected and collaborative Network, at the global scale.
We will gather 400 Junior Entrepreneurs from more than 14 countries in Brussels next March, in one of the biggest conferences dedicated to student entrepreneurship in Brussels.
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Special thanks A special thanks to all the people, companies and institutions that helped and help JADE and the
Junior Enterprise Network reach new heights Our partners and supporters
Distinguished people
JADE Advisory Board
MEP JosĂŠ Manuel Fernandes \ European Parliament
Rodrigo Ballester
\ DG EAC, European Commission
Peter Baur
\ DG EAC, European Commission
Simone Baldassarri
\ DG Grow, European Commission
AndrĂŠ Meyer
\ DG Grow, European Commission
Serge Pegoff
\ JADE coach and mentor
Arnaldo Abruzzini \ Secretary General, Eurochambres Daniel Cloquet \ Head Entrepreneurship & SMEs, BUSINESSEUROPE Karen Wilson \ Development Co-Operation Directorate, OECD Fabian Zuleeg \ CEO, European Policy Center Javier Echarri \ CEO, EBN Panos Katsampanis \ Co-founder of the EU Sting Steven Price \ Executive Director, EIIL Daniel Schaubacher \ Representative European Institutions, EBBF
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Special thanks
JADE team 2017/2018
JADE Executive Board
International Managers
Diogo Parreira \ President (Portugal)
Alexander Hahn & Patrizia Pelka \ BDSU,
Alfonso Catone \ Vice President (Italy)
Germany
Adrien Lepic \ Secretary General (France)
Juan Penãranda \ CEJE, Spain
Giorgio Sleiter \ Treasurer (Italy)
Chloé Gouérec \ CNJE, France Karl Nilsson & Filip Mannefred \ Handels
JADE Managers
Consulting, Sweden
Diana Florea \ Enlargement Manager (Romania)
Severin Schulz \ JADE Austria
Edgar Nazarenus \ Training Manager (Germany) Marta Poggi \ JADE Spring Conference Manager (Italy) Daniel Vecera \ Enlargement Manager (Czech Republic) Gustavo Guerra \ Communication Manager (Portugal) Yoser Manaa \ Enlargement Manager (Tunisia)
Serena Pagano \ JADE Italia Jakub Paduszynski & Diana Rawinska \ JADE Poland
Ana Frazão \ JADE Portugal
Haythem Khedhrini \ IT Manager (Tunisia)
Edgar Marta \ JADE Switzerland
Oscar Faixat \ IT Manager (Spain) Florin Le Toumelin \ Network Quality Manager (France) Valentina Dimbean \ Business Develop. Manager (Romania) Salvatore Scaletta \ Business Development Manager (Italy) Sofia Henriques \ Enlargement Manager (Portugal) Mickael Olifant \ Network Quality Manager (France) Corentin Vinet \ Enlargement Manager (France)
Axel Makangu \ JADE Belgium
Nicolas Freitag \ JCNetwork, Germany Filip Bilic \ NEXT Junior Enterprise, Croatia Aniek Wouters \ UniPartners, Netherlands Maria Cetra & Diana Albakova \ Westminster Business Consultants, UK
Our deepest gratitude to the team that made everything possible.
JADE’s future is a bright one.
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