Author: Rue Potagere Brussels, Belgium Tel: Fax: JADE, European Confederation of Junior Enterprises Linh Ta Cam Sint Niklaas, December 2006 JADE – European Confederation of Junior Enterprises Student Starter 6 th to 9 th of December 2006

2 JADE is a not-for-profit, non-political and international organization whose mission is to:  Promote the Junior Enterprise concept  Offer a platform for knowledge exchange  Provide support and coordination to the network  Foster entrepreneurial spirit among students  Ensure quality of its members  Only academic students About JADE

3 13 Member Countries  Austria  Belgium  France  Germany  Italy  Netherlands  Poland  Portugal  Slovenia  Spain  Switzerland  UK  Greece

4 The Structure of JADE Local level: Junior Enterprises National level: Confederation European level: JADE

5 World wide

6 Aims for this project To give:  Transfer of knowledge  Practical experience of entrepreneurship  Develop training and/or support  Promotion  Using JADE material To get:  Transfer of knowledge  Enlarge our network

7 Junior Enterprise (JE):  Based on the “Learning by Doing” concept  Aims to fill the gap between universities and the business world  Giving students the opportunity to add practical expertise to their theoretical knowledge  Set up and maintain by students >> Student initiative JE responds to students‘ needs

8 Basics of the JE Concept  A non-profit organisation  JE is usually linked to the university  JE is entirely run by students that both perform consulting projects for companies in various sectors and manage the company  Students in a JE gain practical experience in management, leadership and professional work at an early stage

9 Junior Enterprise as Management Lab  Students develop an entrepreneurial attitude  All the problems and situation of SME  Combines on entrepreneurial way the subject-specific knowledge along with social skills and other key skills.  Therefore a Junior Enterprise is a real Management Lab

10 Junior Enterprise

11 JADE Alumni Career Survey  21% JADE Alumni have own company –51% set up their company in less then 4 months –9 % after working for a few years  JADE average age: 28  European average:35  57% get job offer before finish study  22% get job offer after 1 month  <1% are unemployed

12 Thanks for listening! JADE aisbl European Confederation of Junior Enterprises Rue Potagere Brussels – Belgium Tel: Fax: