After a year-long entrepreneurial experience, developing their own company from the idea to reality, over 200 students gathered in Belgrade (Serbia) to compete with their counterparts from across Europe. 39 student-teams took part in the European competition, as part of JA Europe’s…
Out of some 15,000 university students enrolled this year in the JA Start Up Programme, BIOFY, a Spanish startup won the European Enterprise Challenge Award 2018 during JA Europe Enterprise Challenge. JA Start Up programme’s European Enterprise Challenge final took place…
Today’s youth have the ability and determination to tackle some of society’s most pressing problems, but need the guidance and support to help them on their way. This is where JA Europe’s Company Program comes in! I’m the communications director…
The international business education project "Central Baltic Student Enterprises without Borders" (CBEwB) is completed and within it pupils from Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia have established more than 50 international joint ventures and participated in international fairs and innovation camps…
The final event of the ‘Why Europe Matters‘ campaign took place on 21 March at the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels. The occasion – held under the patronage of the Bulgarian EU Presidency – was designed to foster…
Young people who participated in the JA Company Programme (in Finnish: NY Vuosi yrittäjänä) for one year felt that their working life skills and school motivation improved. Improved transversal skills and working life skills increased their motivation, which in turn…
The research project “Innovation Cluster for Entrepreneurship Education” ran for three years, from January 2015 to January 2018. In the centre of the project was the mini-company method. Mini-companies combine practical and theoretical learning and stimulate collaboration between school and…
"A different school day" and "a different work day" — these words were used to describe the Why Europe Matters -workshop, which gathered around 30 secondary level students and seven Nokia volunteers to think about the challenges of European Union and solutions…
The JA Company programme (CP) has a positive impact on students and society, new research confirms. Preliminary results indicate that students involved in JA Company programme for 100 hours or more do better in several areas. The Innovation Clusters for…
The Innovation Clusters for Entrepreneurship Education (ICEE) is an international research/policy experimentation project to evaluate the impact of entrepreneurship education. The first report about results from the qualitative study is now ready. A total of 70 informants were interviewed face…