The Global Enterprise Project 2016 European Jury Panel brings together leaders from 5 global companies that have been supporting GEP throughout the years: Fundacion Repsol, NOKIA, Siemens, SmurfitKappa and Sonae. Dedicated to raising young people's awareness on globalisation, foster entrepreneurship and reinforce the skills need for the modern workforce, these jury members will evaluate the work of the 5 National GEP Winners from France, Germany, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain and choose the winner!

The winning team will be announced on June 30th - follow JA Europe on twitter and find out who will take home the title on European Winner of GEP 2016!

 

Here is the GEP 2016 European Jury Panel:

 

 Felipe Fernández Lores

Director of Technology, Refining and Marketing at Repsol

 José-Ignacio Redondo Sierra

Mentor in Entrepreuners Fund in Fundación Repsol

 
 

Thomas Schoenberg

Lead Customer Delivery Manager Deutsche Telekom Group

   
 

  Thomas Leubner

Chief Learning Officer

   
 

  Mariana Santos Carnido

Corporate Communication and Sustainability

  Mariana Silva Pereira

Corporate Responsibility Coordinator

 
 

Erik van den Bos

Group Head of Recruitment and Employee Engagement

 Gianluca Castellini

Group VP Human Resources 

Steven Stoffer

Group VP Development 

OUR SCHOOL

Jelgava Spidola Gymnasium was founded in 1990 by the Culture Foundation of Latvia with the aim of creating a new type of school, rooted in humanities. The school ethos is freedom and independence, its motto is woven in the school flag. 

There are 477 students (7-12 grades) and 50 teachers in Jelgava Spidola Gymnasium. The school has four educational programmes: Basic Education programme (7-9 grade) and Humanitarian and Social Science programme, Professional Commercial Science programme, General Education programme. School offers a wide range of after school activities: theatre, folk dance group, choir, art studio, volleyball, small business school, young entrepreneurs, aesthetic school, etc. 

Jelgava Spidola Gymnasium is situated in Jelgava, a city in central Latvia about 41 km southwest of Riga with about 64,000 inhabitants. It is the largest town in the region of Zemgale (Semigalia). Jelgava was a capital of the united Duchy of Courland and Semigallia and an administrative centre of the Courland Governorate, Russian Empire until 1919. 

OUR SCHOOL IN ACTION

Jelgava Spidola gymnasium is a partner school of the Junior Achievement Latvia organization since its foundation. We have been realizing the economics and commercial science programme since 1994 and have had more than 400 students' companies established. Four times we have participated in the European finals of students' companies. All the students from the grade 7 to 12 , who are involved in commercial studies, form student companies, write business plans and participate in the competition of business ideas. Our students are involved in different projects and have participated in international conferences and seminars about business education in schools. Our teacher of economics Inta Jornina has been nominated by JA Latvia as The Best Teacher of Economics in Latvia. She is involved in teacher education about business as a teacher trainer and has written her own study materials of economics for all secondary schools in Latvia. In the future the school is planning to become the main centre for schools in business and commercial education in our region. To encourage and develop more entrepreneur skills for our students we would like to open business incubator for our students’ companies.

“Participation in JA Latvia programmes gave me the possibility to become more competitive and enterprising. Now I am not afraid to set high goals up and to do whatever I can to reach them. I suggest young people to try to participate in any of JA Latvia programmes and, of course, to join the JA Latvia Volunteer Club which helps students to develop students organisational and managerial skills,” said Marta Šaliņa, the Best Student of Economics in 2011.

SCHOOL WEBSITEhttp://www.jsg.lv 

OUR SCHOOL

Kainuu Vocational College (KAO) is a vocational upper secondary institution that offers vocational upper secondary education in six different fields of vocational education and training. Education is organized in Kajaani, Kuhmo, Sotkamo, Suomussalmi and Vantaa. KAO offers education for both youth and adults.

From the beginning of the school year 2015-16 KAO has carried out entrepreneurial learning pedagogics in YritysAmis. Behind this, there is a project called Learning in Amisyritys, which is funded by the European Social Fund. The project emphasizes entrepreneurial attitude and co-operative skills. Thanks to this project, the learning environment has been renewed by making it more entrepreneurial and less traditional. Together with the renewal, there has been an aim to create technically functional space and equipment solutions.

OUR SCHOOL IN ACTION

Kainuu vocational college has a long experience in entrepreneurship education. The school started cooperating with businesses and the local community already in the middle of the 1990’s. JA's mini-companies have been implemented more recently. 

From the beginning of the school year 2015-2016, Business, Culture and Natural Resources Studies have been called YritysAmis in KAO. YritysAmis executes the new curriculum with entrepreneurial learning pedagogics. Students learn in different learning projects, such as the mini-companies. These environments in YritysAmis are the café, the office, the decorative workshop, the media workshop, the newsroom and the garden center. Customers for these come from both inside and outside KAO. 

It has been the aim in KAO to effectively execute the new competence-based learning. Students have personalized study plans. Operating in own businesses and gaining knowledge with work oriented studying are encouraged alternatives. 

Over the past few years there have been several JA-businesses in the competence area. JA-camps arranged for all students are included in this activity. Through these, many students get the inspiration to found their own JA student company. JA student companies have been founded in all fields, but mostly in Culture. After the JA Company Program, many businesses have joined in their own co-operatives as entrepreneurs. 

"YritysAmis is not a competing company in the market, and we do not actually educate entrepreneurs. The focus is on pedagogy, a new way to organize the qualification criteria in accordance with teaching. The model is being used to develop work readiness. This model does not highlight the differences between background, skills or gender, but it gives everyone an opportunity to progress in their studies as equals, according to their own readiness and goals" - said Maarit Tartia-Kallio, Director of Education 

SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://www.kao.fi 

OUR SCHOOL

IISS “Alessandro Volta” is located in Palermo (Italy) and is a technical institute with a curricula in electronics and electrotechnics, graphics and communication, IT and telecommunications, mechanics, electromechanics and energy, transports and logistics; an experimental Scientific High School with applied sciences option; an industry and craft vocational school with a curriculum in maintenance and technical assistance. 

The school, which dates back to the 70s, is located in the area called Settecannoli, a suburb in the Southeastern coast of the city, in difficult social, cultural and economic situation. It is attended by less than 1400 students coming from wide urban and extraurban areas, with a high number of commuting students (around 33%).

OUR SCHOOL IN ACTION

The school poses itself as a symbol of legality and democracy, as a mean for personal growth and for the social realization of active and conscious citizens, beyond any kind of physical, social and economic disadvantages. A school “of everybody and for everybody”, which bases its work on the developing subject, guaranteeing students full success opportunities through the complete enhancement of the “personal potential”. The institute commits to favor the harmonious development of the student’s personality through ethical, social, cultural and organizational choices, which would help him/her to consciously participate in significant life and work experiences in the contexts he/she is inserted.

By creating synergies between schools and companies, institutions and local organizations, the scholastic community offers to guarantee unity in the education for young people, in order to guide them in the development of their personality.

Educational choices also include apprenticeship program initiatives, with a didactic methodology that offers the possibility to learn in a working situation and to “learn by doing”, alternating periods of study and practice in companies and high-qualified professional studios, also for growing in legality. The apprenticeship program presumes a “new educational vision”, which was born to the overcoming of the division between educational and application moments and it is based on the idea that formal and informal education, together with work experience, blend in a unique educational project. 

The institute has been committed for years to the promotion and diffusion of the awareness and safeguard of the environment, as well as of environmental sustainability and of the use of energy coming from renewable resources, aiming to stimulate and attract interest towards a collective spin-off of the value of environmental safeguard and of territory recovery, to identify new sectorial and niche professions in the job market and to promote the “eco-self-entrepreneurship”.  

'Entrepreneurial education can represent an important element for the cultural, social and professional growth of young people - especially in difficult areas, such as Southern Italy. It turns out that the “methodological” transformation of the Italian school system is decisive to overcome the job crisis and open up solutions for young people leaving compulsary education" - said Pietro Crimi, coordinating teacher of the Science Department of the institute and spokesman of the institute for the ICEE project.

SCHOOL WEBSITEhttp://www.itivolta.pa.gov.it 

OUR SCHOOL

Tallinn School No 21 is a comprehensive school located in Tallinn. The school focuses on providing students with a diverse learning environment. Students are encouraged to fulfill their academic potential, to make their own decisions and to take responsibility to succeed in our competitive society as responsible citizens. 

The school has developed a demanding and diverse curriculum for sciences, humanities as well as for extensive English studies:

  • Specialised music classes since 1958
  • Specialised English classes since1961
  • Specialism in science, the English language and social studies and humanities since 2011.

At present our school has 1,221 students (Primary school: 353 students; Lower Middle School: 299 students; Upper Middle School: 277 students; Upper Secondary School: 292 students) and 85 teachers.

OUR SCHOOL IN ACTION

Tallinn School No 21 has been teaching entrepreneurship from 2000 in upper secondary school starting with the company programme as an after-school activity. From 2003 entrepreneurship obtained a special place in school curriculum as an optional subject. The number of student companies is growing every year and in 2015/2016 there are 12 student companies providing their goods or services at school.

Huge attention is paid to the quality of studies. For this age group a tight relationship with businesses is very important and each student company has a mentor from business who is dealing with young people together with the teacher. Students participate in student company competitions and ESP exam for assessing their competencies.

There has been an easier version of the company programme running for upper middle grades also for some years. From this school year the school has piloted a new “mini-mini company programme” for the students of the 5th grade to raise entrepreneurial mindset and positive thinking about entrepreneurship already in the early age. Mini-mini companies have got mentors from upper secondary school students who have passed successfully the company programme and are engaged in Student Mentor Programme offered by JA Estonia.

From the next school year the school is planning to restart teaching entrepreneurship also in primary school basing on the principle of  cumulative learning of entrepreneurship. 

The vision of the school about entrepreneurship education is that each student going to Tallinn School 21 must have an opportunity to get an experience in entrepreneurship during the school time.

“Making this student company has been an incredible experience. Many useful skills such as time management, problem solving, cooperation, creative thinking and many others have been gained or improved. The biggest and most important thing we have learned is that you should never be afraid to ask for help or advice. You'd be surprised how helpful and kind people are, if only you have the courage to seek them out. We learned that things often do not go according to the plan. There have been numerous occasions where we have had to rethink all our plans. It has made us flexible and creative. This opportunity has changed our lives and opened up possibilities for the future" - said Katarina Kaleininkas, student participating in the ICEE project.

SCHOOL WEBSITEhttp://21k.ee 

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