As the Junior Enterprise Brazilian Meeting 2011 ended, the attentions of the international JEM focus now on Rio de Janeiro. The reason of great expectation is that after eight years benched, Brazil is finally hosting, in 2012, an edition of the Junior Enterprise World Conference, widely known as JEWC. To ensure the quality and majesty of the event, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro’s Junior Enterprise Federations (FEJEMG and RioJúnior, respectively, in Portuguese) got together to bring this that is going to be the greatest junior entrepreneurs’ meeting of the world. It is expected that 2,000 people are present, and 500 of them, foreigners.

The countdown is on! The event’s going to take place in less than one year. And believe it or not, it’s going to stop the city of Paraty, literally. For the first time in a JEM event, there’s not going to be a Host Hotel, but an entire city will do its job. Modeled after Paraty’s Literary Fair, a huge tent is going to be brought up in the middle of the town and it’ll work as the Convention Center. Meanwhile, the participants will be placed in several hotels in the city, so they can experience in a very intense way the feeling of being in the “JEWC Town”.

The motto for the event, One World, One Network, will be approached from three fronts: Management, Market and Society. Gabriel Matos, one of JEWC 2012 general managers, hopes that these three pillars may be well developed by the event’s programming and that all of the participants might explore them to their max during the event. “The idea to tie these three pillars up is growing stronger: the JE’s with an efficient management, working for results are able to act with excellence with the costumers in the market, having a substantial impact in the society we live in”, he says.

Marcus Barão, another general manager of the event, sees way beyond. He tells JEWC 2012 has the pretension to be the biggest event in the history of World JEM. “This plot only motivates us to do more and give our best for every single junior entrepreneur, because when we accepted this challenge, we knew it wouldn’t be easy. But, as I said once, ‘Says who it’s easy to make a difference?’ Certainly, JEM won’t be the same after JEWC 2012”.

The proposition is that event takes place in August, 2012 and everybody’s already working a lot so that the event is a success. An Action Plan’s Follow-Up Spread Sheet has already been developed and each manager (Partnership, Programming, Financial, Self-Structure and Communication) has their own projects set and done. Next step is the event’s budget approval and, once it’s done, the anxiety begins. JEWC 2012 is closer and closer and the JEM World waits.