What is a Junior Enterprise?
A Junior Enterprise is a non-profit, fully student-led association that delivers real economic impact by enabling students to work on professional projects for real clients. Through these shared entrepreneurial experiences, students develop practical skills, assume responsibility, and translate academic knowledge into real-world value.
Junior Enterprises are embedded in institutions of higher education and operate year-round as structured organisations. They are not simulations or temporary programmes, but formally established entities run entirely by students, for students, and for society.
What Junior Enterprises do in practice
Professional Project Work
Junior Enterprises deliver professional services to external clients, including start-ups, NGOs, public institutions, and established companies. Projects reflect the academic backgrounds of their members and respond to real market needs.
Student Leadership
Students independently manage all aspects of the organisation, from strategy and client acquisition to project delivery and internal governance. Responsibility is real, and decision-making authority lies fully with the students.
Experiential Entrepreneurship Education
Learning happens through action. Junior Enterprises provide structured, long-term, project-based learning environments where entrepreneurship, leadership, and teamwork are developed through practice rather than theory.
Our Essentials
A Global Movement, Rooted Locally
Junior Enterprises exist across multiple continents and operate within diverse educational, legal, and economic environments. While each Junior Enterprise is locally anchored, all are part of a globally coordinated movement that shares principles, quality standards, and a common vision for youth-led economic development. Junior Enterprises Global acts as the reference organisation of this movement. It safeguards the standards of the concept, supports the creation and development of Junior Enterprises worldwide, and ensures global coherence while respecting local autonomy.