Archive for September, 2004

The former Spanish minister of education, Mrs Pilar del Castillo, now a member of the European Parliament, will be the keynote speaker during the Opening Ceremony of the JADE Presidents’ Meeting, which will be held at the European Parliament on 30th September 2004; MEP Rübig from Austria will adress the participants in a later speech […]

Mr. Wallace R. Baker, international partner and founding member of Baker&McKenzie, one of the worlds largest law firms, has shown great support to JADE and the European JE movement, by accepting the Honorary Membership of JADE in 1998. It is therefore with great pleasure that we today recieved the confirmation of his attendance to the […]

During the last weeks, all over Europe, Junior Entrepreneurs have been busy with working out their applications for the Excellence Awards of JADE. The Excellence Award, a European wide competition, are this year awareded in the categories of “most entrepreneurial Junior Enterprise”, “most innovative project” and “most engaged Junior Entrepreneur”.
The applications have been submitted to […]

After several months of intensive lobbying efforts, the European Student Organisations listed in the Informal Forum of International Student Organisations (IFISO) has finally received a positive reply from the European Commission. JADE, like most other indipendent European Youth Associations, has lost the grant from the EC two years ago, when the eligibility criteria have been […]

From 29th to 31st of October 2004 the next meeting of the Informal Forum of International Student Organisations (IFISO) will be held at JADE House. JADE and 12 other international student organisations make up IFISO and work towards common goals, such as giving press conferences together or publishing paper that concern common interests. IFISO currently […]

On a European level the National Governments are discussing which changes have to be made to make Europe a leading knowledge based economy by 2010 (The Lisbon Process). The Green Paper on Entrepreneurship (European Commission, DG Enterprise, 2003) states clearly that we have to change the attitude among young people and bring them into the […]