22 June 2022 Can businesses thrive without social innovation? Since 2015, JA Europe and NN Group have been working together to empower young people with a wide range of work readiness and financial literacy skills while, at the same time, tackling societal challenges by using innovation and entrepreneurship. Yesterday, 35 students from 9 countries1 showcased […]

The winner of the Novartis Digital Health Innovation Award is Diligens from JA Cyprus! CONGRATULATIONS!

The winner team of the Johnson &Johnson Brilliant STEM Award is Tavolitá from JA Italy! CONGRATULATIONS!

We have two winners for the Intel ® AI Innovators Award! The winner of the Upper-Secondary Level is Dermoverse from JA Spain! The winner of the University Level is AskTheCP from JA Bulgaria! CONGRATULATIONS!

The winner of the Bata Good Governance Award is Atlas from Isle of Man! This team produces H2sOap, an effervescent soap tablet that when added to water, reacts to form a foaming hand soap. CONGRATULATIONS!

Check out our first ever JA Europe podcast episode! We dive into an insightful discussion on Access to Market with experts from FedEx! In an interconnected world, access to markets is key and we discussed what it means for small and medium-sized companies in Europe!

Check out our first ever JA Europe podcast episode! We dive into an insightful discussion on Metaverse with experts from Avanade, Young Enterprise UK and JA Alumni! Learn more about how to take advantage of this graphically rich virtual space as an entrepreneur!

JA Lithuania launched a campaign on the way to the National Company Programme final and the European Entrepreneurship Festival Gen-E 2022. 10 different regional student companies‘ eXpos took place all across Lithuania and gathered more than 300+ student companies to present their business progress. One of these eXpos has been visited by the First Lady […]

The Trade Fair will take place at the main station of Zurich – the busiest railway station in the country with over 300,000 commuters per day. Date of event: Friday, 3rd June until Saturday, 4th June 2022! To sign up, please send an email to info@yes.swiss until Tuesday, 3rd May 2022! To learn, please refer […]

The 8th edition of “Your finances, your future” programme is starting! The financial literacy programme implemented by Junior Achievement Spain in collaboration with the Spanish Banking Association (AEB) and the Foundation AEB will be carried out until June. More than 6,300 students from all over Spain will participate in this edition in which more than […]

The Company of the Year event once again inspires schools and students in Finland. Hundreds of JA companies are taking part in the events which are organized within a cool virtual environment. Each regional event features a great live show with interesting artists and speakers and the young participants are presenting great and even surprising […]

The annual marketplace for student companies took place on the 12-13th of February in two of the main shopping centres in Estonia. Around 260 student companies participated from all around the country and beyond – Georgian students were also invited and got an international selling experience. During these two intense days, student companies managed to […]

With the support of Mrs Martina Dlabajova, a Czech member of the European Parliament, a JA Top Logo competition was held for the best visual identity of the student companies. The first round of the competition took place at the regional level. Subsequently, the regional winners competed in the national finals. Students submitted their companies’ […]

The President of the Hellenic Republic and the Prime Minister of Greece   JA Greece is very happy to announce a new initiative that is having an enormous impact at supporting student «start ups» created in small villages, remote areas and at special education schools. We have invited leading, well known personalities of Greece as […]

The European student competitions will be organised as follows:   15 June 2022: Submission of written report / pitch deck 4-8 July 2022: Jury interviews (online) 13 July 2022: Stage presentations (Tallinn) 14 July 2022: Expo (Tallinn) + Awards Ceremony  

Welcome to Gen-E 2022! Gen-E is a celebration of entrepreneurship and the achievements of European students, where thousands of young entrepreneurs, 15 years old onwards, will showcase their cutting–edge business ideas and will be competing for the titles of best Company and best Start-Up of the year. This year, Gen-E 2022 final event is hosted […]