Junior Achievement

Foundation

Foundation for Junior Achievement

Programs as examples of learning through

practice

Junior Achievement Foundation is a non-

governmental organization whose aim is to

prepare children and young people to live under

market economy conditions and to enable young

people to acquire knowledge and a practical skills

to facilitate the implementation of career plans.

The Foundation operates under the

Junior Achievement Worldwide – the

oldest and fastest growing worldwide

organization dedicated to economic

education of young people in 120

countries.

We execute our tasks in collaboration

with the business community, the

Ministry of Education, the PolishNational

Bank and Teacher Training Institutions.

We are members of:

• Junior Achievement Worldwide

• Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise

Europe

We offer students an attractive form of employment -

LEARNING through PRACTICE

We provide 11 programs:

For Primary Schools:

1. From penny to buck

For Lower Secondary Schools:

2. Economy on a daily basis

3. Enterprise

4. Be enterprising

For Upper Secondary Schools:

5. Entrepreneurship day

6. Applied Economics

7. Practical school of economics - Youth mini

enterprise

8. My finances

9. Company management ME Titan

10. Sci-Tech Challenge

For any type of school:

11. Open business

Pupils in our programs:

80550

216490

457960

664492 684561

778413

696392 693902

611567

539546

2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013

Number of pupils

The effect of our

current activities is a

group of 5 628 381

students who through

JAF (FMP) programs

learned matters of

entrepreneurship,

business and

economics.

Youth mini entrepreneurship

What Youth mini entrepreneurship is:

new, exciting program tested by 160 teachers and more than 3,500

students under the project implemented by Junior Achievement

Foundation, co-financed by the European Union under the European

Social Fund.

Implementation of the program without buying handbook.

All materials for students and teachers are available for free of charge

on the online platform of Practical Economics School – Youth mini

entrepreneurship.

The opportunity to participate in the National Competition on Best

Youth mini entrepreneurship "Produkcik", with the winners taking part

in the European finals Company of the Year Competition.

Youth mini entrepreneurship –

implementation of the program

Within the program students participate in educational

game "Youth mini entrepreneurship". The essence of the

game is to establish and operate real company in the

school - Youth mini-companies - organized along the

lines of a partnership

all participants are co-owners (shareholders)

of that company

number of members should be 6 - 15 people

the school can run several mini-enterprises

Youth mini entrepreneurship –

implementation of the program

students - mini-companies partners accumulate all

capital needed, draw up a business plan, conduct market

research, choose a product (or service) then organize

the production and sale. Keep financial records for small

businesses design documentation

specific policies are determined in the regulations of

youth mini-companies

Youth mini entrepreneurship –

implementation of the program

the proper execution of the programme is supervised

by a teacher - mini-companies guardian

parents council acts as a Tax Office and Social

Security Office (ZUS)

students register their mini-companies in the Junior

Achievement Foundation, which provides

organizational, substantive and methodological

ongoing care for students and teachers

Project aim is:

increase the effectiveness of

high school students

education

development of key

competencies, especially such

as sense of initiative and

entrepreneurship

designing innovative tools for

classes for the subject

Economics in practice.

The curriculum for the subject

Economics in practice for high

schools and technical schools

Pedagogical innovation

It combines school environment with

the business.

It prepares young people to continue

their education in the key importance

fields of the economy.

Materials for the programme:

1. The curriculum of „ Mini-companies„

to the economics in practice subject .

2. Teacher's guide - mini-companies guardian.

3. Vademecum for a student

2. The online platform and other

computer programs for mini-enterprises

managing.

Trainings

For teachers conducting that programme training

will be given. Forms of training:

three-day workshops - scheduled in the

second half of August,

or in a form of a e-learning

course – about 20 hours

that will take

approximately one month.

Enterprise without Borders

JA-YE Europe „Enterprise without Borders” expands the ‘Youth mini

entrepreneurship’ programme

The project brings together 12 of 225

Polish mini-enterprises

Competition for EWB High Potential

Award - an award for the best partnership

between mini-enterprises

in a given school year

Company Managment

- ME Titan

Company managment ▲„Company management„ is a computer simulation of

economic processes, in which the students are divided

into teams - companies competing in the market a

fictional, exciting and innovative new product.

▲During the game, students take six decisions:

How much to produce, at what price to sell, how much

to spend on the product marketing, on the investment,

on research and development, and how much to charity.

▲The „Company managment" is carried out on the

basis of ME Titan computer simulation. The teacher who

applies for the program receives a free access to the

material on the site.

Company mangment

▲Each year we enable

students start in two

competitions – on National

and European level.

▲The national competition

takes off more than 1,000

teams.

▲In European competition

our teams rank high.

Company managment JA-YE Europe Virtual Business Challenge 2013

In May 2013, from 514 teams competing in the European finals Polish

students took:

First place: Team Grabias (Marek Kaput i Mateusz Zbylut)

from Tarnow,

Fourth place: Team Hedron (Michał Bąk i Paweł Panek)

from Tarnow.

Entrepreneurship day

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Entrepreneurship day

Student:

▲ accompanied by the employee in the

performance of daily duties for 3-5 hours,

▲ become familiar to the position

responsibilities,

▲ obtains information about the

predisposition, educational requirements,

skills needed, etc.

▲ becomes aware of relationship between

education and career.

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Entrepreneurship day

Consultant:

▲ acquaints the students with the activities of the company,

▲ entrusts to him a simple tasks,

▲ answers student questions,

▲ helping the young person in taking

the right decisions regarding its

further education.

▲ builds a good relationship with

the local community.

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Entrepreneurship day

Entrepreneurship day in

numbers:

▲ Number of students in the

2013 - 47 370,

▲ Number of companies in the

2013 2013 - 19 624,

▲ Together about 393 thous

students and about 163thous

companies

Entrepreneurship day 2013

The under the honorary

patronage of Polish President

Bronisław Komorowski.

„Jestem przekonany, że konkurs daje możliwość kształtowania u młodych ludzi cech

przydatnych w całym życiu, bo być przedsiębiorczym trzeba w każdej sytuacji, nie tylko,

gdy myśli się o własnym przedsiębiorstwie. (…) Konkurs może być pomocą do tego, jak

zaplanować swoje życie już na starcie. A skoro pomaga młodym ludziom, pomaga też

Polsce.”

Prezydent RP

Bronisław Komorowski

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Entrepreneurship Gala - summary of the project

Honoring the most active schools companies and institutions

involved in the program.

Handing awards to the winners of the Competition on Best

Reportage of „Entrepreneurship day".

Thanks to the sponsors of the project.

With the implementation of

our programs we use modern

methods of information

management, and data:

▲ continuously updating

information on the website,

▲ access to materials and a

teaching tool on encrypted

pages

▲ ongoing consultations within

the selected programs.

www.junior.org.pl

Thank you for you attention

Andrzej Pierchała – programs co-ordinator

Junior Achievement Foundation

02-504 Warszawa, ul. Kielecka 1/1

tel. (22) 845 08 76, fax (22) 899 29 86

junior@junior.org.pl

www.junior.org.pl

Fundacja Młodzieżowej

Przedsiębiorczości

Junior Achievement Foundation