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JADE - European Confederation of Junior Enterprises -
Gazette for Junior Entrepreneurs
June 2011
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Lorenzo Uber* President Head of Private Coopera2on, HR and Alumni Management [email protected]
Tzoanna Tsakona Secretary General Head of Public Affairs, Communica2ons and Enlargement [email protected]
Michael Jamros Treasurer
Head of Finance, Legal and Inner Enhancement
Renata Perina Senior Project Manager Brazilian Ambassador [email protected]
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Andre Teles Senior Project Manager Brazilian Ambassador
Joanna Gronowska Senior Project Manager
JADE Spring Mee2ng [email protected]
Henrique Conte Senior Project Manager Brazilian Ambassador
Dear Junior Entrepreneur, The past month has been for sure the month of JADE “shaking the stage” of Europe’s youth entrepreneurship flagships! “Doing business” is a junior entrepreneur’s natural status. However, doing it “more” and “beYer” takes lots of support by the Network and its successful representa2on on a European level. Read more about the achievements of the month in next pages! JADE GazeYe June 2011 is here ready to be explored! What is that makes JADE GazeYe so successful having 2,000 readers? JADE GazeYe is your voice and energy! Is you sharing your best moments , your crea2ve ideas , your passion about JADE, for JADE! JADE GazeYe is keeping you updated about where “ Youth Entrepreneurship” is leading us to and what strategy and ac2ons, we as JADE undertake to keep all our capacity and poten2al fully on board! So, un2l the next JADE GazeYe… ENJOY!
Tzoanna Tsakona Secretary General
Head of Communica2ons 2011
Giulio Sciarappa Senior Project Manager in IT [email protected]
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The Youth on the Move debate took place on 17 May in the Belgian city of Antwerp, the nominated European Youth Capital 2011. It focuses on higher educa2on, learning mobility, the transi2on into work and entrepreneurship – all key priori2es in Youth on the Move. The discussion, involved expert panelists and an invited audience of youth representa2ves from across Europe, who explored what is needed to turn the goals of Youth on the Move into reality. JADE was part of the expert panel, which was consisted of President of the European Commission, J.M Barroso, Commissioner of Educa2on and Youth A. Vassileiou, President of the EU Youth Forum, etc. President Barroso stressed the importance of youth entrepreneurship, while JADE explained the Junior Enterprise concept and its impact in fostering entrepreneurship in 15 European Countries. JADE’s Secretary General, Tzoanna Tsakona stated: “In Europe we don’t just learn how to do business, we actually do business through our Junior Enterprises”,” Entrepreneurship is a mindset, not just opening a business from scratch”.
JADE ‘s Secretary General with J.M Barroso at the Youth on the Move Debate in Antwerp
JADE and President Barroso aligned on Youth Entrepreneurship
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JADE’s private coopera*on t e am i n a c*on ! He r e , speaking with the Global Vice President of Hyundai about poten*al partnership of Hyundai and JADE.
JADE’s member of Advisory Board and Secretary General of Business Europe, Philip De Buck.
JADE was invited on the 18-‐19 May to par2cipate at t h e E u r o p e a n Business Summit, the biggest event f o r p r i v a t e companies in the heart of Europe!
With over 1.500 par2cipants by invita2on, amongst them JADE, increased interac2vity between business and poli2cal leaders, academics, NGOs and media , the EBS is truly Europe’s key mee2ng place for business leaders and decision makers. This year’s edi2on “Europe in the world: Leading or Lagging?”, focused on Europe’s place in the global economy, today and tomorrow. JADE was also a suppor2ve partner of the event, therefore JADE’s logo was visible in digital and non-‐digital space. JADE talked to: Microsol, Accenture, ING, Shell, BNP PARIBAS, Coca-‐Cola and many more!
J.M. Barroso, President of EU Commission
JADE at European Business Summit 2011
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JADE presents the Junior Enterprise concept to Chinese leaders.
JADE’s Secretary General, Tzoanna Tsakona together with the Head of Unit of DG Enterprise and Industry (EU Commission), Marko Curavic.
JADE speaks Chinese
The event was organized by the European Commission and it was aYended by around 200 guests. Amongst them, high level Chinese and European leaders of youth entrepreneurship ins2tu2ons, as well as young journalists who reported the event. JADE’s Secretary General presented the Junior Enterprise concept as “how Europeans foster entrepreneurship in Higher Educa2on” and as an “example” for the Chinese to “Take back home”. JADE presented success stories of alumni Junior Entrepreneurs who opened a business in China. Irenee Robin, a JADE ExBo alumni sent his message in fluent Mandarin characters which was included in JADE’s presenta2on. Irenee explained how the Junior Enterprise concept helped him become a beYer professional. The Chinese leaders were impressed by the JE concept and JADE ExBo is now following up with some interes2ng contacts.
JADE has been invited as a speaker at the EU-‐China Year of Youth event on the 19th of May in Brussels
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Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State (USA) & Angel Gurría OECD Secretary General .
H. V. Rompuy, President of the EU Council . JADE meets him oYen (Check formal picture in JADE GazeZe November 2010).
Michael Jamros with JADE Public Affairs team @ OECD.
The Forum, a public event, brings together ministers, business, labor, civil society and academia to share policies and ideas. JADE was also present at this mee2ng and exchange ideas and thoughts with policy makers and press representa2ves. This is already the 4th OECD Mee2ng that JADE ExBo is aYending in its term (JADE was speaker in two OECD mee2ngs, Seville and Vienna) and was able to con2nue the open exchange with other high level decision makers. In the current edi2on of OECD conferences the topics include new sources of growth and jobs, gender equity, sharing wealth, and new paradigms for development. As the Junior Enterprise Concept is facil ita2ng and suppor2ng these goals, the OECD is interested in coopera2ng with JADE for a longer 2me. Within a private mee2ng with OECD, JADE ExBo was able to present a first dral of a possible collabora2on and to support them with their conducted studies in the field youth, employment and entrepreneurship. The follow-‐ up on this new achievement is s2ll proceeding. JADE will keep you up to date about any progress and hope that this engagement will pay off soon.
Paris -‐ OECD’s 50th Anniversary Week combined the annual OECD Minister ia l Mee2ng and Forum.
JADE close to the governments
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As you might have heard, this year JADE has created a unique partnership with RealAcad, a non-‐for-‐profit ini2a2ve that organizes one-‐week training programs aimed to make the best students and young professionals “so much beYer”. JADE members and alumni that want to join one of the trainings at Stanford this summer
are eligible for a $500 RealAcad-‐JADE scholarship and RealAcad has been helping to make our seminars top-‐notch by providing some of their insights in a break-‐out session in Brussels this past February. Several students have already applied and are in the admissions process right now. To understand this interes2ng organiza2on beYer, we asked the founder, Ankur Malik (on the right on the “Fun” picture below), how this interes*ng training concept was developed. His answer was astounding. In short: “the
entrepreneurial way”. Read his story in the next page!
The JADE-‐RealAcad Partnership: About the origin of … RealAcad
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In 2004, Ankur had been working as a top management consultant with BCG, the Boston Consul2ng Group, since 1998. He was very successful, but was wondering "Is this it? Will I re2re in this job?" So, he decided to approach a team of smart students in his university in Singapore. He asked them, "Should I quit my job? You have 2 weeks to give your final answer as a number from 0% to 100%!" Ankur's close friend Miriam, who also had a career with a top management consul2ng firm, also flew down from Europe to Singapore to help Ankur and the team.
At the end of 2 weeks, the students had the found the answer, it was Infinity! They proposed that Ankur set-‐up Global Realizer Group (GRG) and helped to get the venture started. In a few weeks, Ankur quit his life-‐long job at BCG and commenced his new life as an entrepreneur setng up GRG's first venture: Nineo.com. At the same 2me, one student said, "Ankur, you should also con2nue to do this!" This -‐ what is 'this'? “Working with students to create a venture from scratch – we learned more in 2 weeks than in 5 years of university!”. The name RealAcad was chosen and the website www.RealAcad.org was developed. That’s how 'RealAcad' was born…the rest as they say is history. Since then, RealAcad has developed into a Venture Management Program that involve 10-‐15 smart students and young professionals from all around the world and dis*nct program advisors and leaders from the top global companies. Together they would set-‐up a new venture from scratch within a week! RealAcad has had held programs around the globe in Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Fairfield, Barcelona, Brussels, Harvard and Stanford. Many exci2ng ventures have been created at RealAcad. Nearly 200 extraordinary young global leaders have ‘survived’ the intense learning process at RealAcad and moved on to become real change-‐makers all around the world. To get more informa*on on RealAcad and how to apply to this Summer’s programs at Stanford, you can check out www.realacad.org. And don’t forget to
men*on you were referred by JADE to be considered for the $500 RealAcad-‐JADE scholarship.
The JADE-‐RealAcad Partnership: About the origin of … RealAcad
Two Junior Enterprise Movements in Portugal, soon “One Big Team”!
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JADE ExBo par2cipated in the “Team Mee2ng” at Coimbra (Portugal) to discuss how the two movements will join back to one united JE movement! Aler 3 years of separa2on, the new genera2ons of Junior Entrepreneurs are setng the basis for a successful integra2on and exchange of solu2ons. The team agreed to start working for a fusion by October 2011.
We‘d like to thank you for 190 registered par2cipants! And present you with:
Our key speakers who will deliver a great mix of different key notes and topics during the #SJM11.
SJM.StuCon.at We organized Carmen Ene, Vice President of IBM Global Financing Northeast Europe, Mr. Bertolt Daems, JCI Chief Execu2ve Assistant, Markus Wagner, a very successful Austrian business angel & venture capitalist and Luca Sartoni, team leader of internet marke2ng at 123people, who we met at the Spring Mee2ng in Brussels.
A new Sponsor Check out the next page and find out, which new sponsor we have aboard ;-‐)
FIND OUR MASCOT -‐ FRANZI Take a picture with Franzi or find him on one of our websites. Upload it to our facebook and get the most likes. Win a surprise worth at least the event fee!
We‘d like to invite YOU ;-‐)
As described in JADE GazeYe May 2011, we, StuCon Junior Enterprise from Austria, are organizing this year’s Summer JADE Mee2ng. From 14th to 17th July you will have the opportunity to experience:
Exci2ng Workshops by McK i n sey , I BM , KPMG , Nok i a , P r i cewaterhouseCoopers , Ra iffe i sen Interna2onal, Accenture & more!
Exclusive Dinners during which you can taste Austrian food in amazing loca2ons, feel the JADE spirit and will be provided with at least one, at the gala dinner with all drinks for free!
A great hotel that is modern, hygienic and just 10 metres away from the Danube river. Breakfast will be included from Friday to Sunday.
Beau2ful Vienna where ar2sts as Mozart & Beethoven resided, monuments like the St. Stephen’s Cathedral & Schönbrunn Palace were raised and where you can drink Europe’s best tab water.
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Why being a part of JADE is amazing... For us, networking is one of the key principles that make things move. We strongly believe that we, as Junior Entrepreneurs, are the best promoters of JADE and that human-‐to-‐human interac2ons maYer the most. So, you get to aYend fancy events and meet top management from various companies. Once, I aYended such an event together with Adelina Peltea, Vice President of JADE Romania, just before the official launch of our Confedera2on. There, we met the Country Manager of GROUPON. We introduced ourselves and just when we wanted to start explaining him what JADE is, he stopped us and said: “I know JADE very well. I’ve had a lovely collaboraCon with JADE in Poland”. The story con2nues and a few months later (and just a couple of weeks ago), I had a top level mee2ng scheduled with Microsol and Groupon, in order to market beYer the company I work for. I was just a 2-‐week old employee to this company, but when I entered the room, I realized that I knew both the representa*ves from Groupon and the representa*ve from MicrosoY (that was a B.O.S Junior Enterprise Alumnus, just like me). This really impressed the CEO of my company. It’s great being a member of a network filled with very workaholic students, that put a great passion in everything they do for their JE and their confedera2on. We are not only inves2ng in our future, but also we are helping local economies to grow, by sharing knowledge, contacts and by inves2ng 2me and effort into our JEs projects. So don’t forget, Why YOU are JADE!
Andreea Paraschiv, President of JADE Romania
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JOB OPORTUNITY 1 Senior Project Manager
JADE Spring Meeting 2012
Junior Entrepreneur! 1. Do you have experience organizing events? 2. Do you want to grow?
In JADE we are looking for our member #8 in our team, the JADE Spring Mee2ng ‘12 Senior Project Manager. Only one between thousands of Junior Entrepreneurs of Europe will be the next SPM. Are you interested?
Amazing experience: Be in JADE as SPM is… • Work with a mul2cultural team of Junior Entrepreneurs of all Europe organizing a big event in the heart of Europe • Obtain new knowledge about project management and gain lots of experience • Develop your sol and technical skills, improve your English level • Expand your network of contacts • And of course… have fun!
Profile: • Excellent project management skills • Experience in organising events • Mul2cultural awareness • Good knowledge of English (French
would be a plus) • Proac2vity and hardwork
Responsibili*es: • Supervising all the prepara*ons for
the event. (Will be in Brussels) • Working in close coopera*on with
JADE Execu*ve Board to ensure a quality event
Applica*ons: • Documenta*on: CV and
mo2va2on leYer • Deadline: 23rd July • Send the documenta2on and
answers to: [email protected]
• Posi*on: Senior Project Manager for the JADE Spring Mee2ng 2012
• Period: From 15th September to 15th March
• Place: JADE HQ. Brussels, Belgium
"Do not wait for the right .me. Start now. Do it now. If you wait for the right .me, never stop
wai.ng." (Jasmine Gillman)
JOB OPORTUNITY 2 Project Manager
Enlargement Team 2011-2012
Junior Entrepreneur! 1. Do you have experience in crea*ng Junior
Enterprises or confedera*ons? 2. Do you want to grow?
In JADE we are looking for our member #5 and 6 in our Enlargement team. A team that is helping Junior Ini2a2ves and enterprises all around the world! Are you interested?
Amazing experience: Be in JADE as PM is… • Work with a mul2cultural team of Junior Entrepreneurs of all around Europe • Obtain new knowledge about project management and gain lots of experience • Develop your sol and technical skills, improve your English level • Expand your network of contacts • And of course… have fun!
Profile: • Excellent project management skills • Experience in organising events • Mul2cultural awareness • Good knowledge of English (French
would be a plus) • Proac2vity and hardwork
Responsibili*es: • Keeping track with Junior Ini2a2ves
and Enterprises of your responsibility
• Crea2ng suppor2ng material for them to grow (as JE or confedera2on)
• Spreading and safeguarding the Junior Enterprise concept
• Travel and assess exis2ng JEs in other European Countries
• Working in close coopera*on with JADE Execu*ve Board to ensure achieving the expected goals
Applica*ons: • Documenta*on: CV and
mo2va2on leYer • Deadline: 23rd July • Send the documenta2on and
answers to: [email protected]
• Posi*on: Project Manager for Enlargement 2011-‐2012
• Period: From 15th September to 15th July
• Place: Remotely!
Profile: • Excellent project management skills • Passion and enthusiasm for JE
concept • Mul2cultural awareness • Good knowledge of English • Proac2vity and hardwork
JADE GazeYe for June 2011 ends here…
In case you want to: • write an ar*cle • Share your ideas about JADE Network and
what can be improved • Publish your JE story (daily challenges in a
humorous way) • General comments on JADE or on GazeZe
Write at [email protected]
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