JADE Annual Report 2015

Annual Report 2014-2015

JADE – European Confederation of Junior Enterprises

Students Fostering Entrepreneurship Since 1992

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Contents

The Contents WHY Our Annual Report provides an overview of the activities of the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises from August 2014 to July 2015. The report covers the way JADE works, newest numbers, the activity of the JADE Headquarters and details of the joint work of our One Big Team.

Why? Because we think that this year has brought a lot of results to JADE and we are happy to immortalize it in a document we can share with our friends and colleagues. We are eager to present to you the results of this year’s efforts and celebrate the steps forward JADE has taken in the last months.

Foreword............................................................................................................................. .....4 Testimonials............................................................................................................................. 5 About JADE..............................................................................................................................6 One Big Team......................................................................................................................... 8 Overview of the year 2014-2015.......................................................................................9

The blue map........................................................................................................................10 The year 2014-2015.............................................................................................................12 What comes next.................................................................................................................21 Thank you..............................................................................................................................22 Contact............................................................................................................................. ......23

In JADE we value transparency and as a fast moving dynamic student working environment we need to be kept updated on the changes and evolution that occurs. Thank you for being with us on this journey.

One Big Team after JADE May Meeting 2015

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Foreword

Letter from the President Before diving in I am proud to present the 2014-2015’s Executive Board’s Annual Report, communicating our activities were undertaken after we took up duties in August 2014, but that will have an impact well into the future.

Each committee year in JADE brings outstanding results and evolution in the way we work and act. Each team brings improvement to external and internal activities and adds another brick of good practices and knowledge to the bridge we are building, a bridge between young and young adulthood, between University and the market. I am happy that my team and I could consolidate this bridge and achieve wonderfully our goals and commitments.

We have had more than 50 people working constantly or sporadically with us this year, by far the biggest team by now, a fact that allowed us to finish over 50 projects this year, internal and external. Without their support we probably would have never had the courage to launch so many ideas and develop this year as we did, but most important we couldn’t have made our platform happen, because together we grow.

Ioana David, President of JADE 2014-2015

I am pleased that our values let events like Junior Enterprise World Conference, Generations Club and JADE Spring Meeting happen and for this we have a long list of “thank you” to give, especially to our friends at Bayer MaterialScience, EY and Microsoft. We had the joy to have fruitful results from the events as well, having two new potential members in Europe by the end of the summer, Croatia and Sweden and more than five other interested parties and a strong collaboration with the European Parliament and European Commission.

Most notable, after a great deal of shared thinking, consultation and refinement, JADE will publish a new Strategic Plan that will guide all our work for the next three years. This plan has a fresh young visionary check-point for JADE aiming restructuring and reimagining the way we talk about JADE, but keeping on being a catalyst between our Passion, Professionalism and People.

I would like by this way to thank my extended team all over Europe for being so dedicated and present, even if in distance, to thank the International Managers for being an inspiration to our activities and last but not least my amazing team who this year have been my friends, my co-workers, my bother and joy, my family.

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Testimonials

What do they say?

Words from some of our supporters:

Jan Mühlfeit (former Chairman Europe, Microsoft Corporation) “Microsoft have worked in close partnership with JADE for several years. We know JADE to be one of the most passionate and effective student organisations on the world, and are hugely excited about the work that we will continue to do together, in the years to come.”

José Manuel Barroso (former President of the European Commission)

Carlos Moedas (Commissioner Research, Science and Innovation, European Commission)

‘’I would like to stress the role played by organisations like JADE, and the importance of Junior Enterprises as learning tools and bridges between university and the business world, particularly in a European context”.

Junior Entrepreneurs are “young innovative minds, driven by an unstoppable motivation to contribute to Europe’s economy.

We need the kind of open innovation that JADE promotes.

One that entails two things: collaboration and international reach. JADE’s international network of 400 Junior Enterprises in 3 continents is exactly what I want to see more of in Europe.”

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.

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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About JADE

So... tell me about yourself JADE IS...

JADE is a student NGO that focuses on fostering entrepreneurship among young people, thus our motto “Students fostering entrepreneurship”. We focus on a big gap the ecosystem has in Europe - the mismatch between what University teaches and what companies want.

A long time ago, 47 years ago more exactly, in Paris, a group of students noticed this challenge and they wanted to make a change, to innovate their learning experience.

A Junior Enterprise

can be a business consultancy, marketing agency, a prototype incubator or many others. Before they graduate from University, students in Junior Enterprises work with real clients and receive remuneration for products or services which they entirely develop and manage.

The companies get great value by accessing quality services at a competitive price and the universities get more involved professional students.

Their activity is normally linked to a university, and often professors contribute as mentors. This creates a perfect environment to get the right experience and lifelong skills that make Junior Entrepreneurs adaptable and empowered to put their ideas into action. This is why we believe that the Junior Enterprise concept is the best of two worlds: business and education.

They created the first Junior Enterprise, a non for profit student organization that would teach students by getting them involved in doing.

Now in JADE we focus on improving the learning experience of students to an integrated 360 degree view and a great way to bridge the gap between Universities and Businesses. A Junior Enterprise is a student non-profit business that invests its turnover into its members educational and professional development.

The right skills in a dynamic working world One of the main facts that we strive to change is that there is a big gap between the skills that students learn in the University and what the postgraduating world expects from them.

This is proved by the fact that there are over 2 million unfilled positions in the EU and a hot need of entrepreneurship.

We believe that Europe is in need of flexible professionals with a broad range of skills. This means that the development of personal skills like communication, creativity or analytical thinking and how we manage to apply them in our professional lives are becoming much more relevant in today’s context. The Junior Enterprise concept helps the students to develop abilities that not only will lead to a more successful career, but they will improve the way they look at life.

Junior Entrepreneurs

are innovative, driven and motivated by building a better economical ecosystem, thus they are THE investment we want to make in our future. This investment is based on the purpose of the profit we make. A junior Enterprise will be working with either SMEs, start-ups or multinationals offering services at accessible prices. This is how they ensure opportunities for entrepreneurs and the growth of start-ups.

JEWC 2014 – Where it all started

Moreover the money is rolled in informal education for the members of the Junior Enterprise by sending them to specialized trainings and events, to be sure they are aware of the trending practices in the business world.

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About JADE

A citizen of the (working) world JADE is present in Brussels because we constantly work to ensure on one hand that the voice of student entrepreneurs is heard but also that the messages of Brussels are heard by the Junior Entrepreneurs. We encourage them to be engaged in their local communities by thinking of the greater impact, the one at international level.

The solid foundation we provide helps them to understand and to acquire the skills that will allow them to become astute leaders of the 21st Century.

JADE listens to what young people have to say; JADE helps young people to develop social awareness and a sense of social solidarity; JADE helps young people to build their self-esteem and self-confidence.

JADE encourages social inclusion and finding your voice in entrepreneurship. At the end of the day, JADE enhances young people’s role as active citizens.

Our Headquarters is in Brussels to make sure our core stays the same over years and that we constantly support the growth of our network.

Our Mission aims at representing and integrating the European Junior

Enterprise Movement by encouraging cross-country knowledge exchange and cooperation. In addition to this we support the development of our members, which are the National Confederations, without losing focus on bringing new members to the network . As a whole we encourage entrepreneurship among students in Higher Education through the Junior Enterprise Concept.

Values of JADE Entrepreneurial culture - We foster entrepreneurship attitudes, skills and aspirations. We pursue opportunities even beyond resources currently controlled.

Personal development - We learn lifelong skills. We are empowered to try new experiences, take risks and challenge our education. We believe in learning by doing.

Proactive involvement - We take action, ownership and initiative. We take responsibility for our actions and we feel accountable for each other in our community.

Committed professionalism - Our work has high quality standards. We put business first and we listen and understand our clients needs.

Social responsibility - Entrepreneurship is, for us, a path to a better society. That is why we collaborate with SMEs and startups to consult and create for them. Our actions bring positive long term changes for the future of our economies.

Open-mindedness - We speak our mind out loud and we embrace differences, change, and the new. We believe innovation is a great way to solve problems.

Intercultural Exchange - We believe in international cooperation and using culture to add value to our network.

Our network is more powerful because we are together.

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Team

One Big Team

Executive Board

Ioana David President

Brazilian Ambassadors 2015.1

Pedro Vargas Alignment Senior PM

Daniela Goldman Global Public Affairs Senior PM

Brazilian Ambassadors 2014.2

Rayane Melo Global Public Affairs Senior PM

David Godoy JADE Spring Meeting

Pauline Saussol Private Cooperation

Edgar Garriga Constantin Gross IT Promotion Program

Sean O’Regan Social Media

Gorka Guerrero IT

International Managers

Vincent Van Mouche UniPartners

Dougas Souza Alignment Senior PM

Sofia Fernandes Global Enlargement Senior PM Project Managers

Azahara Franco Communication

Alberto Girelli JADE Italia

Mario Tarouca Treasurer

Kathleen Jeske Secretary General

Alexandru Ene Vice President

Julene Martin CEJE

Ramona Clipa JADE Romania

Ângela Fonseca JADE Portugal

Nicolas Delinte JADE Belgium

Joanna Herbert Zdziarek Czarnecka CDP JADE Academy

Clementine Wencel Enlargement / Success Stories

David Hirsch Global Magazine

Fabian Scholda JADE Austria

Alexander Pfaffenrot BDSU

Alexander Matthew-John WBC UK

Loik Narby JADE Switzerand

Jaafar Raji CNJE

Dominik Domarecki JADE Poland

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Overview of the year 2014-2015

The amazing time of 2014-2015 How does this year fit our long term plans?

JADE as you know is a complex entity and our biggest challenge each year is to keep a constant continuity of our activities due to our dynamic and fast human resources structure. For this we have created a strategic cycle of three years. The strategy works on the calendar year whereas the team works on terms from August to August; this is due to our aim to preserve a vision – thus we ask a team to work on the vision of the team before them until December but also to create their own, from January on.

We are now in the third year of the current strategy, driving it to completion. We started this cycle in 2013 with the focus on the sustainability of the Headquarters, focusing on our financial situation, process mapping, strategy creation and human resources. We followed to the next year, 2014, by focusing on the development of our members and the strengthening of the bonds between countries.

Present days Coming back to 2015, our focus was to improve communication from JADE HQ and complete the vision of being more present for our stakeholders. We did this by highlighting our projects through more transparent means and focusing on an integrated brand manual by redesigning our logos and visual identity. Moreover we focused on participation in events as speakers but also as guests and by pushing the limits in organizing JADE events.

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Microsoft supporting our journey To tackle our challenges we have signed an agreement with Microsoft Education during the Generations Club 2014. The event was hosted together with Microsoft Innovation Center, the Education branch and Mr. Jan Muhelfeit, the Chairman of Microsoft at that time.

Steps in the future The next strategic cycle will start in 2016 and end in 2018, incorporating in the middle the 25th anniversary of JADE, thus we will continue the branding restructuring and a strong focus on the issue of Entrepreneurship in Europe by collaborating with EU institutions and the private sector. We believe we are experts in student entrepreneurship and our goal is to bring the voice of students entrepreneurs to the heart (and ears) of Europe.

The new Strategic plan will focus on building an entrepreneurial attitude in students and then changing that attitude into a mentality. We recognize the potential they have and the pool of skills they can develop, thus we want to contribute to the fast developing technological entrepreneurship by steering the learning experience towards the STEM & ICT skills.

The agreement is named the Education Transformation Agreement and it aims at an innovative learning, by collaborating with Microsoft we create a senior-junior exchange through workshops and other learning tools to enhance STEM skills and their appeal to students.

The blue map

First step: Europe Since 1992 the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises has been actively supporting the development of students all over Europe.

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As a bottom-up umbrella organization , we offer an international networking and exchange platform where they can find the right tools and contacts to grow their Junior Enterprises and individuals.

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JADE Members

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Countries with JEs Ready to join JADE in 2015

Members of JADE

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BDSU www.bdsu.de since 1992

CEJE www.ceje.org since 1986

CNJE www.juniorentreprises.com since 1969

JADE Austria www.jadeaustria.at since 1994

JADE Belgium www.jadebelgium.eu since 1998

JADE Italia www.jadeitalia.org since 1992

JADE Poland www.jadepl.org since 2006

JADE Portugal www.jadeportugal.com since 2005

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JADE Romania www.jaderomania.org since 2010

JADE Switzerland www.jadenet.ch since 1987

UniPartners www.unipartners.org since 1987

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WBC UK www.wbc-uk.com since 1995

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The blue map

Second step: JE concept worldwide Canadian Junior Consulting Confederation www.junior-consulting-canada.com since 2015

JADE www.jadenet.org since 1992

NEW with the support of JADE

Hello World!

BrĂĄsil JĂšnior www.brasiljunior.org.br since 2003

Confederated countries

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Junior Enterprises of Tunisia www.jetunisia.net since 2013

Countries with JEs

Countries with JIs

The year 2014-2015

JADE Spring Meeting 2015 JADE Spring Meeting 2015: Challenging the Entrepreneurship Status Quo!

Opening Ceremony and the Big Debate

More than 220 students from 15 different countries and 50 guests from private and public sector (including more than 20 represented companies) gathered together in various settings, under the patronage of MEP José Manuel Fernandes. The participants attended workshops, networking activities, informal nights, one high level Opening Ceremony and the Gala Dinner that set a new standard for the Excellence Awards – European Awards for Junior Enterprises, with the highest participation rate in the history of the network.

During JADE Spring Meeting Opening Ceremony, five panelists debated the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe and its power to inspire the new generation to help the economy. Taking the corporate side were Mr. Alessandro Cenderello (EY) and Ms. Alexa Joyce (Microsoft) and on the public side were Mr. Florian Iwinjak (UNIDO) and Mr. Marko Curavic (DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission). While the panelists tried to finish on a positive note, the participants voted 75% that youth are not supported enough across Europe to be entrepreneurial.

JSM Gala Dinner

David Godoy

Bayer Material Science Innovation Lab

Allen Dixon interview on Intellectual Property Ideas Matter conducted an intellectual property training workshop in Brussels at the International Congress of JADE, and afterwards spoke to several young entrepreneurs about their perception of intellectual property and what they felt students starting a business needed to know.

Senior Project Manager

30 event participants had to imagine that they were part of a dedicated team of young innovators and travel to the rural areas in India and Southeast Asia. They had to build up solutions and create concepts to improve the life of people in a local village who only have 5-8 $ per day of disposable income and help them to get access to products and services which are taking for granted in European countries.

Numbers 220 participants 24 nationalities 54 JEs 57 universities 28 workshops More than 20 new partnerships started between JEs 9/10 partner satisfaction rate

JADE is a great and inspiring team of young and visionary entrepreneurs with a tremendous willingness to go beyond given borders, request the status quo and think out of the box.

In other words: “The future of Europe” – Stefan Koch, Bayer MaterialScience

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The year 2014-2015

The Biggest Excellence Awards in history In 2015, Excellence Awards, the European Awards for Junior Enterprises, awarded every year during JADE Spring Meeting, had more than 30 applications. At the same time, every JADE Confederation was represented.

After tens of applications to just 6 categories, the finalists arrived in Brussels and did not disappoint.

The list of this year’s greatest is:

Junior Enterprise of the Year: Marketing Méditerranée (CNJE) In 2014, Marketing Méditerranée (CNJE, France) managed to do 54 professional projects, change its marketing, sales and customer relationship management practices to increase efficiency and boost its turnover by 152%, breaking the 500.000 euros barrier. The JE managed to work with multinational corporations and subcontract on the same projects several other Junior Enterprises.

The Most Promising Junior Enterprise: Junior ISIT (CNJE) Founded in 2010, the Junior Enterprise clocked no less than 120.000 euros total turnover since its creation and founded a partnership with one of the most powerful JEs in France in their first year. They have served clients such as ING, Renault or Ubisoft and ran 46 projects in 2014 alone. All of this in fields that are not that common in the network such as languages, international communication and media monitoring.

The Most Entrepreneurial JE: JEME Bocconi (JADE Italia)

The Mose Social Responsible Project: JuniFEUP (JADE Portugal)

JEME Bocconi opened JEME Bocconi Shanghai in 2014, that enables ’’cross-market projects between Italy and China” and the launched the book called Un’impresa da universitari – Storia della prima Junior Enterprise italiana, about Italian JEs and the movement. JEME also managed 15 external projects (1 focused on environmental conservation), 17 trainings (a total of 63 hours of training per member), 8 internal projects and 3 new services and products in addition to last year.

JuniFEUP did an excellent job on helping another student association (U.DREAM) re-imagine and create their website. The project was done for free and it took no less than 45 days of work. The Junior Enterprise accepted the project in order to help the organization continue their mission to help health impaired children to have a happier life in Portugal.

The Most International JE: WBC UK WBC UK is by far one of the Junior Enterprises that stand as an example for what multicultural means, with 15 nationalities represented among their members and partnerships across 4 continents. Two of their main projects in 2014 brought them connections with Bangladesh and Uganda.

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The Most Innovative Project: SBS-Solvay Student Consulting Club (JADE Belgium) The 2011 founded Solvay Students CLUB took last year an important step forward towards boosting their university’s reputation at international level. Wanting to strengthen the results of Solvay students in international business game competitions they came up with their own, student-led academy.

The year 2014-2015

Junior Enterprise World Conference

2014

Junior Entrepreneurs from 16 countries from 3 continents got together to discuss and share knowledge between all countries who foster the Junior Enterprise Concept and create the Memorandum of Understanding.

We hosted between the 7th and 10th of August the Junior Enterprise World Conference, with the help two Junior Enterprises in Geneva, Switzerland: JEHEG and JEG. The Junior Enterprise Global Forum and The Memorandum of Understanding The leaders and representatives from all countries present at the event and organized a World Café. We discussed about the common issues we find regarding Junior Entrepreneurship throughout the world.

The result was the creation of a Memorandum of Understanding to define the concept we are working with. Because this happened very early in the event we had time by the last day of the event to put together all the information learned and create the Memorandum which the country representatives signed at the Closing Ceremony.

Junior Entrepreneurs at JEWC 2014

The Summer JADE Meeting in Coimbra, Portugal, will gather around 300 Junior Entrepreneurs for 4 exciting days. The event’s theme ‘’Think it, make it, sell it!” is about the entrepreneurs’ attitude to forge change in society.

The event is going to have a unique format based on classic content, with a central conference with local stakeholders, practical workshops, workshops from Junior Enterprises, but it also brings a package of new additions like: business competitions, Junior Enterprise Exchange sessions, start-up pitches. and a lot of the Portuguese spirit, cuisine and the student campus life.

Summer JADE Meeting 2015

The event is organised by JeKnowledge and JEEFEUC, two Junior Enterprises based in Coimbra, in cooperaiton with JADE Portugal and under supervision of JADE. The city of Coimbra

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The year 2014-2015

Success Stories The project started in 2005, after a survey in the network showed that Junior Entrepreneurs are likely or very likely to start their own business right before or very soon after graduation.

With this in mind, Success Stories took the format of a brochure showing the ones that made it with their business. The brochure became the signature of the project, and so, between the 2005 and 2014 we had 6 editions.

In 2015, the Success Stories project is bringing 15 inspiring stories of entrepreneurship, advice and tips from some of the most innovative former Junior Entrepreneurs in the network.

We are also highlighting the challenges that these entrepreneurs faced, in an effort to underline that failure is a natural occuring phase that one should accept and tackle with responsibility rather than ignore it..

Unfolding entrepreneurs...

To be launched at Summer JADE Meeting 2015 in digital and print format.

...inspiring characters.

New visual dynamics In 2015 we took the image of JADE seriously and we started thinking of how can we improve the perception of the JADE brand.

Unlike other major student networks, JADE has a multibrand composed of Junior Enterprises, National Confederations, and the umbrella organisation itself. Therefore, we understood that in order to construct synergy between so many entities we need several different approaces from different angles, and we need to define ongoing processes to constantly evolve the brand into a familliar yet fresh personna, fit for the 21st century and the digital age.

After tuning the communication strategy we developed new ways to manage our digital communication.

At the same time, key projects have been treated as brands in order start developing new relationships with our Junior Entrepreneurs. All of this is needed because the Junior Enterprise Network is a business ecosystem that never gets old.

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The year 2014-2015

External events Events attended by JADE as moderator, speaker or partner

JADE at European Business Summit 2015

JADE is the representative body of 20.000 voices of young student entrepreneurs and it is our duty to make their voices echo in all fields of our ecosystem. We are often invited to speak on their behalf and we would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity of showcasing our concept and positioning us as experts in student entrepreneurship.

We are indeed the bridge between universities and the market. 

What works: Entrepreneurship in higher Education by OECD, Helsinki, Finland

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Youth entrepreneurship: prospects for EU, by Commission Vice-President Katainen cabinet, Brussels, Belgium

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Meet the Experts Sessions on Entrepreneurial skills, European Business Summit, Brussels Belgium

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CYFI Final pitch event and launch of the YE! Platform, Brussels, Belgium

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Thematic University-Business Forum, Berlin, Germany by European Commission

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Concertation Meeting - DG Connect, Brussels, Belgium

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6th University-Business Forum, Brussels, Belgium

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PILC 2015: Change Leadership - Key to Successful Growth, Rijeka, Croatia by PAR University

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Solutions to Youth Employment - A Partnership between Governments, Private Sector and Civil Society - Brussels, Belgium, World Bank

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SME Envoys - Milano, Italy, European Commission

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European Development Days - Brussels, Belgium, European Commission

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Informal Forum International Students Organisations Budapest, Hungry

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International ProAktivity Summit 2015 - Brussels, Belgium

by YouthProAktiv

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Young people and entrepreneurship: how to bridge the gap? - European Policy Centre

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JADE partnered for the Microsoft’s European AppCup http://www.appcup.eu/

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The year 2014-2015

Workshop during Generations Club

On the 4th of November JADE organised Generations Club 2014 in Brussels. It was our way of listening to the message of a European society troubled by skills mismatch and youth unemployment.

Thirteen networks representing more than 37 million young people were invited to make this message heard at the Microsoft Innovation Centre Brussels; we balanced the high number of youth representatives with guests from both public and private sector,

rounding up seniors from EY and Microsoft, but also from the European Commission DGs. The topic that we tackled to strengthening the challenge of youth unemployment and lack of involvement towards entrepreneurship was the development of skills. Having this in mind we wanted to find our What are the skills youth considered entrepreneurial, how are those skills to be developed and when.

Extract from report: entrepreneurial skills

Ability to identify skills

Auto reflection

Languages skills

Opportunity perception

Self confidence

Active listener

Creativity

Life-long learning

Pitch skills

Technical skills

Analytical thinking

Global awareness

Negotiation skills

Self assessment

Work in a team

Generations Club speakers list: We thank for the real value brought to the event and passionate support to our special guests: Alessandro Cenderello - Managing Partner for EU Institutions, EY Karen Wilson - Senior Fellow, Brugel Jan Muhelfeit - (at the time) Chairman of Microsoft Europe Steven Duggan - head of Worldwide Education strategy, Microsoft Ketan Makwana - CEO, Enterprise Lab Olivier Witmeur - Professor of Entrepreneurship, Solvay Brussels School Joana Drake - Director for Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission Simone Baldassari - Policy Officer, European Commission

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Main conclusions One important conclusion is that all the skills should be developed at different stages, and through different methods. Thus we see the contribution of JADE of uttermost importance to shape the entrepreneurial attitudes in mentalities. As you will see in the report itself, 88% of entrepreneurs need specific training.

The Generations Club Panel Discussion

As mentioned in a 2012 report from the European Commission, Junior Entrepreneurs are already 25% more likely to open their own companies after graduation comparing to an average of 10% of students who did not have business related studies.

The year 2014-2015

JEWD (Junior Enterprise World Day) was created in 2014 as a commitment between JADE and Brasil Júnior, the Brazilian Confederation of Junior Enterprises. JEWD happens every year on November 22nd and the main idea was to create a day where the Junior Entrepreneurs from all over the World could celebrate together.

In 2014, the campaign started after JEWC (Junior Enterprise World Conference).

With the videos and photos taken during JEWC, JADE started creating the first teasers for the event. These teasers were posted together on Facebook by JADE, Brasil Júnior and JET - Junior Enterprises of Tunisia. JADE and Brasil Júnior also made a Thunderclap Campaign that was able to reach over 600.000 people through social media. In many countries, many Junior Entrepreneurs organised their own events and celebrated JEWD.

sessions following the CDP this year with different focuses, either internal or external. We had talks about how we connect the Junior Enterprises between themselves, how to recruit and handover better, how to better integrate your network, but also more external like Political and Private Affairs or Fostering Entrepreneurship.

Confederations Development Programme The Confederations Development Programme is an older initiative of JADE, reaching this year the 6th round of knowledge sharing. The Confederations Development Program provides our Member Countries with an experience sharing platform that JADE creates and facilitates.

The program has two stages, one of information gathering and one of learning out of you improvement areas through coaching or exchange sessions between confederations.

This year, besides European Confederations, we also had the participation of Brasil Júnior, the Brazilian Confederation. We have had five different exchange

We aim an yearly margin of 2-3% increase in network quality and this year we achieved 4%, thus more than we set ourselves for. For this reason we will host the first edition of Confederation Awards during the Summer JADE Meeting in Coimbra, Portugal in July 2015. The categories we will award the best performing members will be Junior Enterprise Development, External Development, Integration of the Network, Workforce Focus, Internal Management and Highlight Confederation.

Exchange sessions 2015 Connecting Junior Enterprises Integration of the Network Public Affairs and Partnerships Recruitment and Handover Fostering Entrepreneurship and Internal Management

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The year 2014-2015

Platform Let’s unite the network by collaboration and connection We are one European network with 20.000 students working in 280 Universities in 12 different countries; knowing each other and working together can be quite challenging due to the geographical distances and the different languages we speak.

However we all share the same goal, as Michele Hunt likes to say, doing well by doing good. We needed to bring closer together the Junior Enterprises and to introduce them to all our partners here in Brussels so we took advantage of technology. The past 10 months we developed together with our new partnership with Campus Consult Projektmanagement GmbH a tool to do just that.

The unveil of the platform will be at the Summer JADE Meeting on the 25th of July 2015 in Coimbra Portugal, pursuing complete working status starting with September 2015.

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The platform will be open to all Junior Enterprises and Confederations and will offer them two advantages.

On one hand it creates a virtual environment for knowledge exchange, on the other it will act as market where they can interact with companies that need the services Junior Enterprises provide. 

private CRM system

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database for projects and job advertisements from external companies

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search engine to find Junior Enterprises and Junior Entrepreneurs in Europe

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profile for each Junior Enterprise and Confederation

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statistics about the own Junior Enterprise and Confederation

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a crop of knowledge ready to be harvested

Furthermore, the platform allows JADE and its members to showcase virtually the size of the network and the value of its people; thus organizations that hadn’t had the opportunity to participate in one of our events can get a feel of it out of the virtual representation.

The year 2014-2015

Enlargement

Enlargement – Croatia, Sweden, Hungry, China More than 20.000 students in 12 countries: this is JADE - and we are continuously aiming for more!

JADE’s mission is to support the foundation of new Junior Enterprises or Confederations and proudly we can announce that JADE supported this process on all five continents in 2014-2015: Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America as well as Australia.

In Europe, JADE assisted students in Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Sweden and Turkey. Across our borders, JADE supported activities in Algeria, Australia, Bahrain, Cameroon, Canada, China, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and United States.

The biggest achievements of this year’s enlargement activities are two new (unofficial) members of our European Network, Sweden and Croatia who will seek approval of their fusion with the JADE network in the last General Assembly of the Executive Board 2014-2015 in Coimbra.

Foundation of CJCC

Next JE at JADE May Meeting

Meanwhile...on the other side of the world, we are proud to have influenced and fostered together with two very passionate Junior Entrepreneurs Andrea Mecacci and Loik Narby the creation of the first Chinese Junior Enterprise respectively the Canadian Junior Consulting Club (Canadian Confederation of Junior Enterprises).

Statement from Petar Butorac, President of Next JE (Croatia): “First of all let me express a big thank you to the whole JADE team that was supporting us on our road. Your experience, advice and energy that you are transferring helped us a lot to arrive at this very day when we can say all the documents for joining JADE are submitted”

Ivory Coast

Peru

Czech Republic

Great Britain Algeria Mexico

Turkey

Cameroon

Denmark

Australia

Canada Indonesia

Croatia Bahrain

Ireland

Hungary Official launch of the CJCC

Foundation of JEME Shanghai

China

Estonia

Sweden United States Paraguay

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What comes next

What comes next

The New Executive Board “The difference between success and failure is a great team.”

(Dave Kerpen)

Daniela Runchi, Kassandra Petersen, Marion Depouilly, Constantin Groß and Pierre-Louis Vanantwerpen: JADE’s future consists of five great individuals who together build the next JADE Executive Board. They will take over the organisation’s activities from the 1st of August 2015.

‘’As JADE Team 2016 we can't wait to start working together in Bruxelles to foster JADE and the members, develop valuable partnerships and work hand in hand with all our stakeholders.

As committed Junior-Entrepreneurs, we believe in the added value of our network, and are now ready to make a difference. Looking forward to meeting all of you as soon as possible!’’

Daniela Runchi

Daniela Runchi President

Kassandra Petersen Vice-President

Private Cooperation

Public Affairs - Policy

Strategy Management International Relations

Communication Alumni Management

Marion Depouilly Vice-President

Constantin Groß Secretary General

Network Quality

Events

Human Resources

Internal Communication

HQ Management

Training

Pierre-Louis Vanantwerpen Treasurer Public Affairs – Events IT Management Finance & Legal Management

New projects we are excited about JADE Academy Work at JADE never stops and sometimes projects can be a work of 2-3 teams across the years. We have started in 2014 to structure and plan a network of specialized trainers for JADE from JADE. We recognize the value of multiplying our talent and giving back to the community; we also noticed that sharing experience is much of an art; thus we designed a program through which we would train Junior Entrepreneurs to be trainers so they can share their experience better. During the upcoming term there will be the first implementation of the JADE Academy after one year of researching, resourcing and planning. The first edition of the training boot camp and initiation of the program is scheduled for late October 2015.

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From Brussels to the whole world Furthermore, JADE will focus on geographical growth in order to spread the concept to more even additional countries - but more important to additional students.

The dream we have is to develop slowly a global network of Junior Enterprises and for that we work in a strong collaboration with our sister networks - Brasil Júnior and Junior Enterprises of Tunisia.

According to our Memorandum of Understanding, JADE’s focus areas will hereby be Europe and Africa while Brasil Júnior will focus on the enlargement activities in America and Asia.

Together we grow!

This first success.

Global this, Global That As our long term plan is to be able to reach as many students and touch as many minds as possible and our growth is very fast due to new mobility programs, funds and technology, we focus on global projects that will ensure the alignment between continents. For this we have organized in August 2014 the Junior Enterprise World Conference in Geneva, Switzerland that had as a result the Memorandum of Understanding between all who foster the Junior Enterprise concept, after the first ever Junior Enterprise Global Forum. To be sure we know about each other we will create the first Global Junior Enterprise Magazine, which has been planned until now and will be implemented by the team 2015-2016.

Thank you

Special thanks to our supporters

Supporters Microsoft EY Bayer MS Baker&McKenzie European Institute for Industrial Leadership Eurochambres

JADE Executive Board 2015 would like to thank to all organisations, companies and all their representatives, who supported us during our year with advice, learning experience, great talks and motivation.

BUSINESSEUROPE

Advisory Board

Ent-Ex

Arnaldo Abruzzini, Secretary General of Eurchambres Daniel Cloquet, Head of Entrepreneurship and SMEs at BUSINESSEUROPE

Eurpean Business Summit

Solvay Brussels School Podio Think Young

Steven Price, CEO of EIIL

Youth in Action

Daniel Schaubacher, Representative EBBF

Open Sphere

Fabian Zuleeg, CEO of European Policy Center

European Voice

Jan Muhelfeit, Senior Strategic Advisor at Atlantic Bridge

The European Sting

Karen Wilson, Senior Fellow at Bruegel

UNIDO

Council

European Development Days

Michael Jamros, Treasurer 2011

WEF

Tanya Muller Borges, President 2008

Sixt

Antonia Sariyska, President 2010

OECD

Carmen Torres, Vice President 2003

Child & Youth Finance International

Lorenzo Uberti, President 2011

Campus Consult Projektmanagement GmbH Brasil Júnior Junior Consulting Canada

and MEP José Manuel Fernandes, European Parliament Marko Curavić, DG Growth, European Commission Serge Pegoff, JADE coach and mentor

Junior Enterprises of Tunisia UNDP The World Bank World Economic Forum

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Contact

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Together we grow!