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5th-8th of March | Brussels, Belgium

Foreword

Ioana DavidJADE President

Dear participants,

Congratulations for your decision to not miss JADE Spring Meeting 2015 - a conference full of development and networking possibilities as well as our unique Junior Enterprise spirit is lying ahead of you!

Guided by the theme "Challenging the Entrepreneurship Status Quo" we will start the conference with our Opening Ceremony filled with a high-level panel discussion and the presentation of our Excellence Awards finalists. Right from the beginning we will put you in the right mindset to exchange with you about our movement and how we can together actually empower the Junior Enterprise concept in order to foster European challenges, for example youth unemployment and economical risks as well as the development of a environment that supports entrepreneurial ideas and initiatives. In order to support you and your Junior Enterprise with tools and knowledge for your day-to-day activities we offer you two days of workshops - from HR topics over Finance and Technology to Business tools.

"Challenging the Entrepreneurship Status Quo" also goes along with challenging yourself and your environment - therefore we wish you a successful JADE Spring Meeting with many interesting discussions, new lessons learned and empowerments which will provide you with new ways to challenge your Status Quo.

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Challenging the Entrepreneurship Status Quo

Not long ago, Europe’s crysis changed the mentalities of many about the traditional economy and industry leaders everywhere turned their heads towards youth, especially the unemployed. Knocking at the door is the fact that innovation only is not going to solve many problems and entrepreneurship has become key to a more active and efficient occupation of the workforce.

Following the belief that it is not Europe who is changing the youth, but rather youth who are changing Europe, JADE is continuing its yearly tradition by organising JADE Spring Meeting 2015, putting the minds of its Junior Entrepreneur participants at work for the theme: Challenging the entrepreneurship Status Quo.

There is a very good reason why JADE Spring Meeting happens each year in the capital of Europe. We believe that bringing cultures together on a scene populated with some of the most creative, innovative young minds in Europe is key to discovering and pursuing new, life changing opportunities.

Challenging the Entrepreneurship Status Quo means encouraging the agile youth to stand for a reform in development and quality of life. It means changing the numbers into a mindset, and a mindset, into culture.

The stage is set for leading Junior Entrepreneurs of more than 12 countries to meet officials of the European Parliament and the European Commission, leading people of influential companies and hundreds of young people, seeking to network, discover opportunities, and last but not least, to be inspired.

▶ A LONG HISTORY OF HARD SKILLS PROJECTS ▶ TENS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS BENEFITED FROM THE JUNIOR ENTERPRISE EXPERIENCE▶ PRESENT IN 80% OF TOP BUSINESS UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE▶ HUNDREDS OF CLIENTS IN EUROPE

Each year the JADE network is home for more than 30 events both at national and international level: JADE Spring Meeting: more than 220 attendants to the European Parliament + local students; Summer JADE Meeting: more than 200 international attendants + local students; Junior Enterprise World Conference: 400-2000 international attendants; 25+ Seasonal national meetings: 50 to 1000 attendants; 2 General Assemblies of 40 attendants.

JADE – the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises – is an international, non-profit umbrella-organisation of enterprises across Europe established and managed solely by students. The network is currently composed of 12 Confederations and Consultative Members from Europe, summing up to circa 280 JE’s. “

12 COUNTRIES

280 J--ENTERPRISES

20000 STUDENTS EUROPE-WIDE

~25 YEARS OF ACTIVITY

~50 YEARS OF CONCEPT

12 COUNTRIES

280 J--ENTERPRISES

20000 STUDENTS EUROPE-WIDE

20000 STUDENTS EUROPE-WIDE

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A Junior Enterprise – is a non-profit civil social organization, formed and managed exclusively by undergraduate and postgraduate students of higher education, which provides services for companies, institutions and society, under the guidance of teachers and professionals with the goal to consolidate and enhance the learning or their members.

Junior Enterprises are similar to real companies, counting with the principles of corporate governance like management council and executive board, and own regulation. Learn more HERE.

Junior Enterprise World Conferenceonce every two years in Europe or Brazil.

Junior Enterprise World Day: every year on the 22nd of November, during GlobalEntrepreneurship Week.

JE MOVEMENT““

JADE is connected to a global network of more than 40.000 Junior Entrepreneurs across the world. Together with Brasil Junior and Junior Enterprises of Tunisia we are actively enlarging our concept, opening the doors to North and South America, Asia and Africa.

Concept

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rs Opportunity Perception Risk Taking Skills development Networking TechnologyInternationalisation

JADE took youth unemployment and skills mismatch in Europe as a priority for policy making and the result was Generations Club 2014! The main goal was to answer three questions: What are the entrepreneurial skills, when and how should them be developed in order to achieve the success? The results will be presented during the Opening Ceremony.

The Global Entrepreneurship’s Institute publication: Global Entrepreneurship Index, one of the most trusted global entrepreneurship studies in the world, served as main refference point in choosing the pillars that describe the workshop experience this year.

The Big Debate: Is the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Europe actually supporting youth to create new jobs is goind to provide the bigger picture for the theme of the event, Challenging the Entrepreneurshi Status Quo.

Together with Generations Club 2014 report and Global Entrepreneurship Index, the three pieces complete the puzzle of entrepreneuship in 2015: youth perception on entrepreneurial skills, the pillars of entrepreneurship and the public and private sector view on te ecosystem itsself.

Finally, the Excellence Awards are here to prove that Challening the Entrepreneurship Status Quo is something that the Junior Enterprises have been doing to do for quite some this, but every year there is space to go even further.

JADE Spring Meeting is the event were many faces of entrepreneurship intersect. JADE follows European policy mak-ing in times chalenged by unemployment and other economical risks. Our JADE’s solution is to bring more sucessful entrepreneurs to the market through the Junior Enteprise concept. This year JADE Spring Meeting was based on two big events, one external and one internal: JADE Generations Club 2014 and Global Entrepreneurship week.

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Agenda

Keynote

Generations Club report

Welcome Speech

Mrs. Ioana David

PresidentJADE

Mr. Jose Manuel Fernandes

Member, EPPEuropean Parliament

Ms. Karen Wilson

Senior FellowBruegel Think Tank

Mr. Mário Tarouca

TreasurerJADE

Mr. Jacques Ragot

Director Global Public AffairsBayer MaterialScience

Speakers For full biographies of speakers, visit www.jsm.jadenet.org/speakers

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Mr. Steven Price – Moderator

CEOEuropean Institute of Industrial Leadership

Mr. Marko Curavic

Head of Unit ‘Entrepreneurship’, DG Enterprise and IndustryEuropean Commission

Mr. Florian Iwinjak

Programme and Liaison OfficerUNIDO

Ms. Alexa Joyce

Director of Policy, Teaching and Learning - Worldwide EducationMicrosoft

Mr. Alessandro Cenderello

Managing PartnerEU InstitutionsEY

Unemployment is a crucial economic factor for a country. In Europe, unemployment in general has been on the rise since 2008. And youth unemployment rates are generally much higher, even double or more than double, than unemployment rates for all all other ages. By the end of 2014, the youth unemployment in the Europe was 22%. This is why the European Commission needs to define where it wants to be by 2020. To this end, the European Commission proposes that 75% of the population aged 20-64 should be employed by 2020.

Moreover, in a report by World Economic Forum, unemployment or underemployment is the number 1 risk in Europe and it’s likely to impact our society a lot not only in the next 18 months, but its effect may actually follow us for the next 10 years.

It’s essential to invest resources in order to create a sustainable environment that supports the young entrepreneurs opening their own ventures. Independently their educational and social background, all stakeholders need to be prepared to support those ones who want to take risk and that seek for an opportunity every day.

However, the new generation of entrepreneurs, as one of the stakeholders of this ecosystem, must be as agile thinking and efficient as ever. Due to the fact that they have to be their own teachers in order to handle the interaction of so many entrepreneurial variables. This self-directed learning is even more important considering the fact that the demand for new entrepreneurs is in developing economies. As one of the key factors for success being risk acceptance, they have to plan ahead, be wise and also take advantage of technology when efficient absorption occurs.

Workshops*

David WebberOdgers&Berndtson

Are you leaderfit? What do ‘headhunters’ look for and the new dynamics of the 21st century workforce.

Andras BanethAndras Baneth Public Affaris &

Strategic CommunicationMake it Stick: Communicate with Impact

Patrik Kovács FIVOSZ

Think Global, Act Global – Keys of entrepreneurial success

Allen DixonIdeas Matter

Using Intellectual Property as Business Assets: The Family Jewels or a Ticking Timebomb?

Gordana NikolicPAR University

Networking: Key for a successful business start

Fabrizio ColimbertiCambre Associates

Using social media for professional uses

Start Your Own Business – Freedom of choice and action of an entrepreneur versus the golden cage of a knowledge worker or manager job in a company

New Venture Team formation

Stefan KochBayer

From dark to sunrise:Value creation for people in developing countries

Bayer Innovation Lab

Partner workshop sessions

*For full details about the workshop sessions and bigraphies of workshop givers, visit www.jsm.jadenet.org/workshops

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Dave DeruytterING Bank

Start Your Own Business – Freedom of choice and action of an entrepreneur versus the golden cage of a knowledge worker or manager job in a company

Janos VecsenyiEuropean Forum for

Entrepreneurship research

New venture team formation by clarifying goals, roles and responsibilities, milestones and processes and interpersonal relationship

Benjamin HermerConsultant in management,

former JEur

Secure your international initiatives, how to collabo-rate with others?

Consultant skills development : from internal quality development to commercial effectiveness. How to de-velop a client focus approach?

Alasdair WhitePM-Solutions You’re going to do what? … Ohh, that’s risky! … Or is it?

Serge PegeoffJADE’s external coach

Start-ups are confronted to challenges as complex as the ones confronting larger companies.

Simone PastorinoPenrose Internationalisation in Eastern European countries

Dennis z.s. TanDASHMOTE

Opportunity Perception: Crucial knowledge to take the leap & identifying opportunities

Maria Logotheti, Olga

KlingerYES

Remember how your mother told you not to talk to strangers? Forget it!

Alan price, Laura Grandy, Mathieu Proust, Florian Jensen, Daniel

Byrne

UBER Uber - Start Me Up - Leading innovation

George Stefan Margas Building High-Performing Teams

Business Organization for Students

JADE Romania

Hannah Scales How to get clients on-board

ESCadrille Toulouse Junior Conseil

CNJE

Caio Swan Six Steps for a Successful Crisis Management

Fluxo Consulting Brasil Junior

Jonas HamplAssessing like a JEnius: How to use Assessment-Centers for your JE

icons – consulting by students Innsbruck

JADE Austria

Joanna LewendaBusiness Model Canvas - an innovative way of building business models

ConQuest Consulting JADE Poland

Silvia Galetti Project Management Business Game JEst JADE Italia

Mohammed Rahman Pricing Strategy & Cash Flow Forecasting for JEs WBC UK WBC UK

Junior Enterprise workshop sessions

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Anaïs Guesne and Laura Aymerich

What are the creative dynamics in our society ?

Marketing Méditerranée CNJE

Elie Melviez Project development: How to go from paper to reality!

SBS-Student Consulting Club

JADE Belgium

Adriana AnchidinJoin JADE and don’t

miss your entrance to an international career!

President JADE Executive Board 2014

JADE ExBo Visit JADE HQ

Are you interested to find out more about the JADE HQ and are you thinking about moving to Brussels for one of the various positions that JADE offers you? This is your possibilitiy to take a tour of JADE Headquarters with the Executive Board! Join us for the afternoon and we will talk about the great opportunities that are there for you.

Special workshop sessions

The Excellence Awards - European Awards for Junior Enterprises is a competition traditionally organised for and during JADE Spring Meeting. It’s purpose is to showcase the excellent results of the most sucessful Junior Enterprises, results that ultimately speak in the name of the Junior Enterprise movement and become a benchmark for the years to come. All participants receive recognition and visibillity in front of the network and they position themselves as the best in their national confederations.

This year’s categories are:

The competition usually has two main phases:1. Application process: all applicants submit a presentation with the result over the past year and a letter of motivation. The applications are evaluated by JADE Executive Board and the Excellence Awards Jury. 2. Presentation to the Excellence Awards Jury: for JADE Spring Meeting, 2 finalists are chosen for each category for a presentation during the Opening Ceremony in front of the Jury and the participants.

This year, the presentations will happen during the Opening Ceremony at Thon Hotel Brussels Center, starting with 3:45 PM, on the 5th of March.The announcement of the winners for each category will happen in a special moment during the Gala Dinner, on the 7th of March.

Excellence Awards 2015 applicants:

JADE Members

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Staff

JADE Members

JSM 15 Staff

The global movement

For the first time in JADE Spring Meeting, we have launched a call for Junior Entrepreneurs to assist us in the organisation of the event. In order to do that, 12 Junior Entrepreneurs have joined us in JADE House from the 28th of February for a series of activities and trainings that will walk them through the whole event and prepare them to make JADE Spring Meeting a flawless experience.

Do you have questions? Do you need help? Look for the orange badge to spot someone from the Staff Team!

Meet the staff: http://jsm.jadenet.org/2015/02/meet-the-staff/

Agenda insights

Check-in

Dinners

Lunches

Transfers

Informal nights

Regular participants The check-in will be done in Hotel Des Colonies for all the participants. Upon arrival, a member of JADE Team will check your name and will give you your welcome bag. You will be asked to pay a deposit guarantee during check-in of 20 euros: ▶ in case you do not attend one workshop, the deposit will not be refunded. ▶ in case you do not attend two workshops, you will to pay 35€ (20€ of the deposit plus additional 15€). ▶ in case you do not attend all the workshops or Innovation Lab, you will have to pay 50€ (20€ of the deposit plus additional 30€)Non EU Participants Participants who could not pay with bank transfer are kindly asked to ask at the recep- tion desk for late payment check-in.Changing Participants will have a separate room to change their clothes if they need. This room will only be available until 13:45.

There are two dinners, one on Thursday and one on Friday.

LocationsThursday: Drug OperaFriday: Amadeo

The full adresses are available on http://jsm.jadenet.org/map/

You have one course and one drink included for both days. You may also order extra on your own expense.

The dinner venues are easily acessible from Rogier. You can choose to come from the hotel together with a group organised by JADE. Please respect the agenda.

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Lunches

Transfers

Informal nightsThere are two informal nights organised by JADE:

First night - Scotts bar: networking and party▶ We arrive directly from Drug Opera;▶ The night closes at 2 PM;▶ The venue is 10 minutes walking distance from the hotels and easily accessible.

Second night - Madame Moustache: party▶ We arrive directly from Amadeo;▶ All participants will get a FREE voucher ticket from JADE Team. The voucher covers entrance fee and the first drink (long drink);▶ You need to have the ticket to be able to get in. There are no exceptions.

Adresses are available on http://jsm.jadenet.org/map/

Both lunches (Friday and Saturday) are standing lunches (with lunch bag).Lunch bags will be provided in the university atrium (Solvay Brussels School)

In order to get the lunch bag you need to come with your badge. Please specify if you are a vegetarian.

There are no lunches on Thursday or Sunday.

Transfers to Solvay Brussels School will be made by bus. The busses leave a few minutes before 9 AM from the hotels.

Please look around for the staff and follow their instructions for a more efficient transition.

Gala Dinner

WorkshopsYou can apply to several workshop sessions in the following way:

▶ For Friday: you can apply to: 1. One workshop in the morning (3 hours) and one workshop in the afternoon (3 hours), 2. Innovation Lab by Bayer which has a duration of 6 hours.▶ For Saturday you can apply to: 1. Two workshops of 1,5 hours in the morning and one in the afternoon of 2 hours 2. One workshop of 3 hours in the morning and one in the afternoon of 2 hours*.

*The JADE House visit (guided by JADE Executive Board) will take place on Saturday after lunch in the 2 hour workshop time frame. It is the ideal moment to have a direct conversation with the team and get insights about JADE activity and how you can apply to be part of the experience, directly from JADE Headquarters.

The number of attendants per workshop depends on the room capacity and preference of the workshop giver.

Places for the workshop will be occupied in the order of application.Participants who do not apply to any workshop will be automatically assigned to a random workshop after distribution of the rest of attendants.

The Gala Dinner and Closing Ceremony will happen during the same night on the 7th of March.The Excellence Awards winners will be announced before midnight.

The night will continue with a private party.

The venue is quite far from the hotels. We will leave at 8 PM, by bus, at the same time. Please do not be late, as the busses will not be able to wait more than 15 minutes.

The dress code for the Gala Dinner is described later in the Survival Guide.

We leave the party by bus in two rounds:Round 1: 3AM Round 2: 4AM - maximum 150 participants

Adress is available on http://jsm.jadenet.org/map/

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Looking for new challenges?Looking for an international work environment?Looking for an internship of the special kind?Looking for colleagues from all over Europe?

Than the JADE opportunity is a great chance for you! Join the JADE Team as a member of the next Executive Board and develop the European Confederation a step further. Gain work experiences in various departments, for example Communications, HR, Private Cooperation or Public Affairs!

Application deadline will be the 31st of March 2015! Stay tuned for further information about the application process!

Make your summer special by moving to Brussels for an unforgettable year!

NEXT EXPERIENCE JADE EXBO

Business

Business Casual

Gala

Recommended Optional

Business casual shirt JADE T-shirt (provided in welcome bag) x

Blazer xTie x

Fine trousers xSkirt x

Recommended OptionalSuit / Business dress x

Tie xBusiness shoes x

Recommended OptionalSuit x

Tuxedo xBlack tie / Bow tie x

Bow tie xEvening dress x

Gown x

Unisex

Men

Women

Dress code

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Partners

Media partners

Ioana DavidPresident

Alexandru EneVice President

MarioTaroucaTreasurer

Kathleen JeskeSecretary General

David Godoy Senior Project Manager JADE Spring Meeting 2015

Edgar GarrigaSenior Project Manager IT

Gorka GuerreroSenior Project Manager IT

Constantin GrossSenior Project Manager Enlargement Promotion Programme

Clémentine WencelSenior Project ManagerEnlargement Promotion Programme

Sean O´Regan Senior Project ManagerCommunication

Azahara FrancoSenior Project Manager Communication

Pedro VargasSenior Project ManagerBrazilian Ambassador

Daniela GoldmanSenior Project Manager Brazilian Ambassador

Herbert ZdziarekSenior Project Manager Network Quality

Pauline SaussolSenior Project Manager Private Cooperation

Joanna CzarneckaSenior Project ManagerPrivate Cooperation

JADE Team

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