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…
The two-day JA Europe Enterprise Challenge 2017 culminated on Thursday night in Helsinki in the awarding of the best JA Start Up companies. An international jury followed 19 startup companies from 15 different European countries. The participants of the European…
Helsinki is full of interesting events this summer. June 28th and 29th Nuori Yrittäjyys ry (JA Finland) hosts JA Europe Enterprise Challenge 2017. The event will gather young entrepreneurs from 15 countries around Europe to Helsinki. The university students and…
On 28-29 June, over 20 student teams will meet in Helsinki and compete for the European finale after participating in a year-long Start Up Programme and qualifying at national-level. A JA Europe initiative, the Start Up Programme annually engages over 14,000…