How to set up a Junior Enterprise

Level 4

Application for JADE membership

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What?

There are mainly two cases:

1. You want to become a member of your local confederation.
   1. There is no confederation member in your country, so you want become a member of JADE.

When?

The membership application is coming after have done each step of the J.E. maturity model.

Where?

You will have to present yourself to JADE. But the preparation is doing at your J.E. HQ

Why?

To be recognized and to become part of the big JADE network.

Who?

The whole team can prepare the application but the Exbo needs to be involved more than others.

How?

If there is a local confederation in your country you will have to contact them and follow their requirement.

Otherwise, you will have to apply for a JADE consultative member membership. In order to do this you will have to:

1. A board member has certified that the Junior Initiative fulfils JADE’s requirements to become a member, according to local JADE’s Application Process or JADE if there is no local JADE in your country.
2. A letter of interest has been sent to JADE, expressing the intentions of the Junior Initiative on joining the network and the timeframe it intends to do so. The completed Junior Enterprise Maturity Model was attached to this letter.
3. Come to a General Assembly and make a presentation about yourself showing your interest to apply for membership.
4. An application report according to JADE’s Application Process was produced and sent to JADE at least three weeks before a JADE General Assembly.
5. Come to a second (third) General Assembly and officially apply with subsequent vote.

Here there is the document that you need to produce to apply for consultative membership, as outlined in the internal rules:

• Historical overview of the development of the J.E. concept in the country applying for Consultative Membership
• Structure of the applicant for Consultative Membership with regards to: legal and fiscal organisation, administration, quality assurance, project-management for consulting projects
• Statistics and numerical data: number of members in the Junior Enterprises, fields/subjects of the consulting projects, international projects and contacts, turnover (analysis regarding the consulting projects per field, per year, etc.)
• Strategy for expansion and development
• Strategy for supporting the creation of new Junior Enterprises
• Strategy for the creation of a National Confederation
• What is the motivation to apply for Consultative Membership in JADE?
• What are the expectations from the Consultative Membership?