“Insect eating will break through”
Entis NY won the grand prize JA Start Up category of the Uskalla Yrittää final in April 2017. The best JA company in Finland sells crickets grown in the town of Kurikka as a foodstuff. The founding students of the…
Uskalla Yrittää winner at the world exhibition during the summer!
The success story of the best JA student Company from Finland, I’m Blue, continues. The young entrepreneurs from Espoo have founded a limited company and will represent Finland at a Astana EXPO 2017 next summer. The three month Astana…
Entrepreneurship education in focus – 3 articles you should read
In the framework of the ICEE Innovation Clusters, 3 new articles on entrepreneurship education have been published. Covering important topics related to teacher training, content and tools and assessment, they provide an overview of the ICEE approach to entrepreneurship education…
Young Entrepreneurs’ European Final Competition in Finland Next Summer
Next June, entrepreneurs from all over the continent are coming to Helsinki to compete for the title of best start up company. Enterprise Challenge 2017 is a two day event in Helsinki 28th-29th June 2017 organized by the non-profit organizations…
Even a CEO can learn from a high school student
NY Job Shadow brought together 29 top-level Finnish executives and the same amount of entrepreneurial minded young students. The lessons learned were mutual and the enthusiasm contagious. During the event organized by JA Finland last Thursday, every leader was shadowed…
¡Hola Amigos! Pikkuyrittäjät goes to Spain.
The Pikkuyrittäjät program will start on Costa Del Sol, Spain in November! Spain has a large Finnish community and lots of vibrant entrepreneurship. The Pikkuyrittäjät program is ideally suited to the school using the Finnish curriculum and the children are…
Job Shadow is here – students get to be leaders for a day!
The JA Job Shadow day brings together Finnish top executives and entrepreneurial minded students once more. 29 Finnish business leaders want to take a day of work for the young people on Thursday November 3rd. Every leader will be shadowed…
Pikkuyrittäjät got noticed in New York
”You got a great program in this Pikkuyrittäjät.” ”For this kind of a program there is a market also in the United States.” Last week, the free of charge elementary school program of JA Finland, Pikkuyrittäjät, was presented through…
TES reward to Finland
For the second edition of The Entrepreneurial School Awards, 17 entrepreneurial schools across Europe have been selected at national level for their entrepreneurial vision and outstanding implementation of entrepreneurship education programmes. The selection criteria include the schools’ strategy for entrepreneurship…
Pikkuyrittäjät the Best of Europe
The Finnish educational innovation, Pikkuyrittäjät was chosen the best Entrepreneurship Education Program in Europe in a competition held by the International Partnership Network (Global Best Award). The biennially arranged gala was held in Oslo this year. The tough competition had…