JADE - European Confederation of Junior Enterprises -
Gazette for Junior Entrepreneurs Issue January 2010
EXBO CORNER
Antonia Sariyska President Head of Public Affairs, Enlargement and Alumni Management antonia.sariyska@jadenet.org
As high-level strategic managers we know: there is no better feeling than being in control of the happening. Because happening means New, means Change - like New Year and New Decade, New Hope, New Dream, New Challenge. And all this New is in our hands, the hands of our generation of world-changers. On the way, I can wish ourselves only one thing for the coming '10s decade: being truly ethical and socially responsible, as only a Junior Entrepreneur can be! Welcome to the new Decade, folks! It's our Decade!
Moritz Beck Vice-President Head of Private Cooperation moritz.beck@jadenet.org
Antonia Sariyska
Dear Junior-Entrepreneurs,
Matthieu Milan Vice-President Head of Inner Enhancement and Civil Cooperation matthieu.milan@jadenet.org
Adelina Peltea Secretary General Head of Communications, HR and Events adelina.peltea@jadenet.org
Ricardo Ponce Treasurer Head of Finance and Legal ricardo.ponce@jadenet.org
Carlos Morales Senior Project Manager Head of IT carlos.morales@jadenet.org
First of all, I would like to wish you a great and successful 2010! As you know, 2009 was the year of financial crisis and difficulties… Even for Junior Enterprises… Don‘t forget that crisis also means opportunities! So guys, innovate, take risks, … for sure you will be awarded for that entrepreneurial behaviour! Cheers and see you in March for JADE Spring Meeting! Matthieu Milan After 4 years in this network, I got the opportunity to meet a lot of people, see opportunities, experience great moments, through all over Europe, that because some of us 40 years ago, thought about a strikingly concept where there is no boundaries, where nothing is impossible, where we can just learn by doing: J.E. But the most important things that come to my mind, is that this network, this concept, got the power to move you! I look forward to this effect in all of you! Ricardo Ponce Dear future leaders,
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The European Union realizes the importance of youth entrepreneurship. With their support and your motivation, we can realize big things in 2010! All the best and a successful year! Moritz Beck
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JADE House o CDP Auditors training weekend o Fundraising team – strategy and teambuilding weekend
Brazilian corner o Good Bye Ticão and Vini! Welcome Luiz, Miriam and Naone!
New Year – new fashion Dear Junior Entrepreneur,
The beginning of a new year is always a good opportunity to look back and analyse what it took us to get where we are and also to set up new aims, driven by new ambitions. One of these aims for JADE Executive Board 2010 is to get closer to you, to help you understand why it is worth to be engaged in the European network. Through this montly Gazette, alongside with other communication platforms we are using, we hope to remind you that you are part of a huge international network created to support young ambitious people like you. Never forget that JADE is actually YOU! And together we grow! Adelina Peltea Head of Communications JADE Executive Board 2010
o JADE - refreshing its visual identity o Better promoting the Junior Enterprise concept – JADE France rebranding
Towards a stronger movement o Lobbying o CDP updates oJE.net – the JEs exchange platform
JADE events o JADE Spring Meeting o Junior Enterprise World Conference o Other events in the network
Career opportunities o JADE Executive Board 2011 o Communications Senior Project Manager o IT Project Manager o Research Project Manager
JADE HOUSE
CDP Auditors Training weekend - Last 16th and 17th of January, in ING HeadQuarters, occurred the Confederations‘ Development Programme (CDP) training session. After having successfully passed the whole selection process, 8 highly motivated Junior-Entrepreneurs have been trained to the audit by the European Organisation of Quality (EOQ) and by the CDP team. They learned the basis of being an auditor in order to get the right information using the right questions. They have also been informed on the context and origins of the CDP and on the way they will help JADE within this project.
Fundraising team – strategy and teambuilding weekend JADE ExBo is restructuring the fundraising of JADE. Under the leadership of Moritz Beck, Head of Private Cooperation, a team of five took on the fundraising challenge: Sebastian Bette (in Brussels) and Dominik Klimmek from Germany, Matthieu Le Bris and Guilhem Moulin from France, Guilio Sciarappa from Italy. The kick-off for the fundraising team took part in JADE House, for three productive and motivating days. After discovering the cultural differences and how to use them best for the team, they created the 2010 fundraising strategy after understanding the full background of JADE. In addition, the team was trained at a practical workshop with simulated business sales meetings with video recording. And after all this, they experienced the legendary night live of Brussels, thus building the social scope of the team.
BRAZILIAN CORNER
Good Bye Ticão and Vini! Welcome Luiz, Miriam and Naone! Well, they did a really nice job, but now they are going back to Brazil. Tiago Mitraud and Vinícius Carraro, the Brazilian Ambassadors, worked for the past six months as Senior Project Managers at JADE. Their main tasks were the CDP Project, Enlargement, benchmarking and others. Now they will continue their work in the Brazilian Network where Tiago Mitraud is now the President of Brasil Junior and Vinicius Carraro is the Head of Internal Management Department (for the new Brasil Junior Board that started its term in January 2010). Luiz Gonçalves, Miriam Ascenso and Naone Garcia are now the new Brazilian Ambassadors. As Senior Project Managers of JADE they are already working in the CDP Project (Luiz), Management of Jade Spring Meeting (Miriam) and JE.NET Project (Naone) and soon they will also manage new projects. As Brazilian Ambassadors their main tasks are: gather the best JADE practices; maintain and consolidate the partnership between Brasil Junior and JADE; organize the Brazilian commission that will go to the JEWC and represent Brasil Junior in Europe.
NEW YEAR. NEW FASHION
JADE - refreshing its visual identity The year of 2009 marks an important moment in the history of our network. JADE Executive Boards 2009 and 2010 with the help of JEDES - an Italian Junior Enterprise specialized in design – developed the visual identity of JADE, trying to boost the youth spirit behind it. Still keeping the highawareness elements, the new logo looks now younger and more modern expressing the never-ageing concept of youth entrepreneurship and the always young members with fresh ideas. Starting from this, all the visual identity elements (templates etc.) were changed to express our dynamic network.
Better promoting the Junior Enterprise concept – JADE France rebranding
Willing to better promote the entrepreneurship spirit in French Universities and the National network of nearly 140 Junior Enterprises, JADE France is renovating its visual identity during the 40th anniversary. The new visual identity enhances now the “Junior Enterprise” brand, thus allowing the JEs glow. In a context that needs to give value to the Junior Enterprises activities, the confederation reorients its politics towards the brand that is promoted for 40 years and focuses its new visual identity on this brand.
JADE website was also renewed from November 2009. The new website is more interactive and modern, being now up-to-date with the online technological progress. JADE Headquarters started to use the new visual identity from November 2009, and because it involves a lot of resources to change the network’s visual identity, JADE National Confederations have a time buffer of 12 months to convert entirely. All these changes aim at keeping JADE visual identity always fresh and so to reveal the young spirit of our network.
And that’s the moment when we ask for your contribution to the process of implementing the visual identity change in the network. It’s time that you change all the old branded materials (for example, JADE logo on your website). Ask your International Manager for the new visual identity elements you need.
The institutional logo is going from red to blue: red for Juniors, blue for the institutional aspect of companies; the young and dynamic network echoes backs to the spirit of entrepreneurship and professionalism. The transition is done through the first letter of the word “enterprise”, an “e” that is the heart of the change of color with a circle to call up the notion of network that enforces each Junior-Enterprise. The whole expression is written on an upward diagonal, symbolism of expansion, optimism and dynamism, like the Junior Enterprises are. The signature « Révélateurs d’esprit d’entreprise » is the right way up, it is clear: using one’s entrepreneurship spirit, taking decisions, innovating, managing people and projects, but also assuming risks with the excellence as a goal to reach. The signature is the result of the four components of Junior-Enterprises: the economic one that gives competencies, dynamism and the capacity of students to innovate for companies or associations; the entrepreneurial one that gives students a first experience of entrepreneurship and also provides them with innovative projects: the pedagogical and professional components propose students a concrete and enhancive experience promoting the professional integration. Based on article by Adeline Lajoinie, France
TOWARDS A STRONGER MOVEMENT
Lobbying - Promoting the Junior Enterprise Concept and ensuring the recognition of JE experience: the key objectives pursued by JADE on an institutional level. January 2010 brought a great new wave of recognitions. Through the European Commission, JADE earned the right to revise policy documents related to Entrepreneurship education before it actually goes live. The reason for this decision was given shortly by a member of DG Enterprise: "JADE is one of the most important youth organisation in Brussels, and definitely the entrepreneurship leader in Europe". Looking into the new decade, JADE ExBo attended a few briefings on the strategy for EU 2020: Growth and Jobs. Moreover, Junior Enterprises are already mentioned surely and frequently in the new resolution of the European Council on the Youth framework as a part of the EU 2020 strategy. Last year, JADE was a key speaker at the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education. 6 months later, the leading youth organisations of the World got together in Paris to discuss how to ensure access to high-quality education and easiness of education migration. JADE and Brasil Junior attended the event as the single body of the Junior Enterprise Movement, proposed many effective solutions, and the results are expected soon in the official communiquĂŠ by UNESCO.
CDP updates - Our Junior Auditors are now visiting the Confederations and they will have to write a precise report with the help of the whole CDP team and the concerned Confederations in order to get a real overview of the situation. This information will be used to give guidelines to each Confederation for their development: by promoting knowledge exchange between them, JADE network will become stronger and stronger! The main feedbacks of the project will be given during the JADE Spring Meeting (5 th to 7th of March 2010).
JE.net – the Jes exchange platform is itself a website, where each Confederation, Member State and Junior Enterprise (from JADE and Brasil Junior) will develop a profile, which will allow the sharing of international projects, knowledge, experience and even the exchange of members at international level! A mixture of a social networking webpage and a travel directory will ensure that your organisation has chosen the right partner for the international purpose wanted. The pilot test started in January 2010 and the official launch for all the Junior Enterprises will take place during Spring Meeting, in March 2010.
JADE EVENTS
JADE Executive Board 2010 would like to welcome Junior Entrepreneurs from all over Europe to Spring Meeting – the international event hosted in the home town of the JADE Headquarters - Brussels, Belgium. This event will give you the chance to: meet like-minded Junior Entrepreneurs from other cities and countries with whom to exchange knowledge and experience attend the Excellence Awards ceremony and be inspired by the commitment, professionalism and innovative ideas of the members of our network develop skills and project ideas through workshops discover the JADE spirit, the awesome mixture of cultures and ideas, the perfect balance between doing business and having fun
And because you are the leaders of tomorrow and you have the power to improve the world around you through your actions, we dedicated this event to the theme of Social Entrepreneurship and we invite you to debate on different related topics. So don’t miss the opportunity and come to Brussels from 5th to 7th of March 2010 (see here the agenda). You are able to subscribe online until the 14th February 2010, but don´t forget that there are only 120 places so hurry up! www. jadenet.org/events
Other events: May Meeting 30.04 – 02.05 in Tours, France
Prepare for our biggest international event! When? 22nd – 25th July 2010 Where? Milan, Italy
An event for Confederations and Consultative Members representatives
What? “Ideas to (re)design (y)our world” Organised by JEME Bocconi
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Are you a Junior Entrepreneur that wants to:
Boost your personal and professional development! Take the big challenge and apply for JADE Executive Board 2011!
-Gain Top Management experience at European level? - Discover yourself by testing all your aptitudes and skills? -Work and live in a multicultural environment? -Expand your friends and business network worldwide? If yes, then think about taking the step that will improve your professional life! JADE offers you the opportunity to achieve all this at a very fresh age by becoming a member of JADE Executive Board 2011! Deadline for application: 4th June 2010 More info soon on: www.jadenet.org/career
If you are interested and you want to discover more about what it takes to become and be an „ExBo“, to discover what you win from the experience, then come to Spring Meeting from 5th to 7th March and attend the workshop „Being JADE ExBo“ !
For any questions don‘t hesitate to contact: Adelina Peltea, Head of HR, JADE Executive Board 2010 Email: adelina.peltea@jadenet.org Skype: adelina.peltea
Communications Senior Project Manager
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Time frame: 15th March – 15th August Location: Brussels (with short periods of working remotely if necessary) Objectives: Increase the awareness of JADE towards third parties and the awareness of JADE Headquarters activities towards the members. Improve JADE image for all stakeholders by creating a 360° Communications Strategy and implementing it in a professional way. Main responsibilities: -- Create the communications plan for all target audiences of JADE - Manage the communication tools - Develop media relations at international level Your benefits: - Gain professional experience in a multicultural environment - Improve your skills -Expand your network Profile: -Strategic thinking -Good communications skills -Good level of English
IT Project Manager
frame: 1st
15th
Time – April handover; 15th May – 1st September working time Location: Brussels (with short periods of working remotely if necessary) Objectives: Offer IT support to all activities inside the JADE Headquarters. Main responsibilities: - Website development - Network support - Offer IT solutions for facilitating the work inside the Headquarters Your benefits: - Gain professional experience in a multicultural environment - Improve your skills -Expand your network Profile: -Attention to details -IT knowledge -Website development knowledge (joomla) -Good level of English
Apply until 8th March 2010
Research Project Manager
Time frame: 15th March – 30th April Location: Work remotely from home with start and finishing visits to Brussels Objectives: Discover facts about the members of JADE (regarding studies, entrepreneurial spirit etc.) and write a report that will develop a better understanding of the Network, and will be sent to organisations in order to show the potential of our members. Main responsibilities: -Develop the questionnaire together with JADE ExBo - Create the project plan - Create the report of the research findings Your benefits: - Gain professional experience in a multicultural environment - Improve your skills -Expand your network Profile: -Knowledge in Marketing Research and Statistics - Structured, reliable - Detail oriented - Good presentation skills
Apply until 17th Feb 2010 Apply until 12th Feb 2010
For questions and applications (CV and Motivation Letter) contact: Adelina Peltea, Head of HR, JADE Executive Board 2010 Email: adelina.peltea@jadenet.org Skype: adelina.peltea More info on: www.jadenet.org/career
Curious to discover the people from JADE Headquarters and their activities? Come and meet them all. If you are a Junior Entrepreneur you are more than welcome to visit JADE House either just to meet the Executive Board and the Project Managers, either to use the space for teambuilding or work sessions with your Junior Enterprise colleagues. Just send an email to open.doors@jadenet.org to establish your visit!
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