The Gen-E European Entrepreneurship Competition 2023 was held in Istanbul by JA Europe and hosted by JA Turkey, on July 11-14, 2023. The event involved 800 young entrepreneurs, their teachers, JA staff, partners of business and policy makers from all over Europe. Young entrepreneurs competed in two categories: (i) high school level with 41 Student Companies, winners of national competitions and (ii) University level with 20 Start-UPs. According to the organizers, the competing teams were selected from over 390,000 JA students in the 2022-2023 school year. The competition gave young participants the opportunity to present their business ideas and the entire process followed to develop and prepare as entrepreneurs.
Virtual EXPO
JA of Albania was maximally committed to the inclusion of Student Companies set up as part of this program during the 2022-2023 academic year in the Virtual Expo organized by JA Europe. 36 out of 70 student companies set up were included in the Virtual Expo making Albania one of the 17 countries with the highest number of registrations. From the Start-UP program, 11 start-ups from JA Albania were registered in the virtual Expo. Elbasan was nominated by the jury for the UNICEF prize on social inclusion.
GEN-E iN Turkey
Student companies were represented by the winning team of the National Entrepreneurship Festival organized by JA Albania in May 2023, "Fistrat". The idea of this company consisted of an application focusing on the financial education of young people through the game. The company conducted an online interview with the jury, made a quality appearance during the presentation on stage, and during the exhibition, the stand had a significant number of visitors. Real Albanian, which competed in the University category, was nominated by the jury for the "Euroclear financial performance" award. that didn't manage to win, however, both members of this start-up had the online interview with the jury, made a very good presentation on stage, and presented their platform very well to the various visitors during the fair. "Harry Fultz" Institute was nominated for "The Entrepreneurial School Awards". This institute managed to be among the 27 schools that won this award at this Festival. The director of this Institute was present during the ceremony of receiving this award. During this festival, the CEO of JAA, the manager of education at AADF, the member of the board of JAA, the "Fistart" team and the director of "Harry Fultz" met with the Consul of Albania in Istanbul Mrs. Blerta Kadzadej. The latter visited the stands of Albanian companies on the day of the Fair, as well as held a short meeting with the CEO of JA Europe, Mr. Salvatore Nigro.