Students driving tomorrow’s change
Junior Enterprises Global
We are the organisation representing the Junior Enterprises Movement - the largest entrepreneurial student network worldwide.
Junior Enterprises
80.000+
Students per Year
27.000+
Projects annually
25,2M hours
Annual Skills Training
2.100+
57
Countries with JEs
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Our theory of change - the JE Concept
Junior Enterprises (JEs) are student-run consultancies embedded within universities and associated to a range of curricula, from business, engingeering to agriculture, design and artificial intelligence. They enable students to deliver high-quality, professional services to their clients, often local SMEs, Start-Ups, or NGOs, on a project basis.
These associations act as engines of practical education, entrepreneurship, and early-stage innovation for young talent and support for business incubation and skills development. As they grow, they enrich regional ecosystems by injecting talent, energy, and capability into the market.
Around 60% of JE Alumni go on to found their own businesses or become intrapreneurs within 10 years of their time in the JE Movement. Our concept, born in the 1970s in France, boosts regional economic & talent growth and is embedded in law in mutliple OECD member countries as a means of boosting SDGs 4,5,8 and 17. Globally, 55% of our members are female. Junior Enterprises Global helps develop, coordinate and support our 2000+ strong networks through their national umbrella organisations (National Confederations) membered to JE Global.
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We are a historically grown youth Movement
From its beginnings in 1967, when students at ESSEC Business School in France created the first Junior Enterprise to bring academic learning into real entrepreneurial practice, the Junior Enterprise Movement has grown into a global ecosystem of 2000+ student-run organisations that combine autonomy, purpose, and applied learning at unprecedented scale.
What began as a single experiment in experiential education expanded across Europe, Latin America and Africa, North America, Asia and Oceania, eventually reaching every continent and giving rise to National Confederations that professionalised knowledge transfer, safeguarded quality, and strengthen continuity across generations of young entrepreneurs in their country’s Junior Enterprises.
The creation of the Global Council as a worldwide coordinator in 2014, marked the moment the Movement transformed from a constellation of national networks, sometimes reaching partial continental coordination, into an organisation, today known as Junior Enterprises Global, with a unified international umbrella and one shared mission. To Enlarge, Connect and Represent the Movement, complemented by Development and International Standardisation activities.
We connect higher education, industry, and policy actors; support national development and enlargement; anchor the Movement in international frameworks such as the United Nations 2030 SDGs and African Union 2067 Agenda; and increasingly demonstrate, in fields like youth employment, how a student-led model can become a structural instrument for economic opportunity and social resilience.
The Movement in action at our World Conference with 4.000+ delegates