JADE

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JADE European Confederation of Junior
Enterprises

• Student Starter
• 6th to 9th of December 2006

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About JADE

• 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

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About JADE

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

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The Structure of JADE
Local level Junior Enterprises
National level Confederation
European level JADE
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World wide
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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

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JE responds to students needs

• 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 gtgt Student
  initiative

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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

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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

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Junior Enterprise
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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 average35
• 57 get job offer before finish study
• 22 get job offer after 1 month
• lt1 are unemployed

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Thanks for listening!
JADE aisbl European Confederation of Junior
Enterprises Rue Potagere 119 1210 Brussels
Belgium Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
751 mail_at_jadenet.org http//www.jadenet.org