European Signature Awards
open to national winners
BNY Mellon Future First℠ Award
The BNY Mellon Future First℠ Award celebrates the Gen-E mini-companies that are creating unique business solutions to a pressing environmental, social or governance (ESG) challenge throughout the JA Company Programme.
Alumni Leadership Award - with the support of Nestlé
The Alumni Leadership Award is an award given out to individuals, who demonstrate outstanding leadership skills, which impact their team and the JA company at GEN-E. This award aims to recognise and honour the personal strength of the individuals in a successful team.
Delta Air Lines Sustainable Innovation Award
Delta Air Lines' Sustainable Innovation Award recognizes student companies demonstrating innovative and sustainable business ideas, with potential for scalability and international growth. With this award we want to recognise innovations which can be successfully and effectively implemented to strengthen society, enhance organizational efficiency, and serve customers in an optimal way, while ensuring sustainability.
FedEx Access Award
The FedEx Access Award both at national and European levels puts emphasis on the importance of “global access” in a more than ever interconnected world. We aim to empower the next generation of Europe’s entrepreneurs to embrace global opportunities and to seek partners and customers beyond the national borders.
HSBC Climate Resilience Award
The HSBC Climate Resilience Award recognizes teams which demonstrate innovative efforts to address climate change through innovation, entrepreneurship, and community engagement but also serves as a catalyst for fostering a generation of climate-conscious leaders committed to creating a more resilient and sustainable future for all.
Manpowergroup ready for work award
The ManpowerGroup ‘Ready for Work’ Award recognizes those teams that have best built work readiness skills during the competition. The winning team will display ability, likability and drive, all of which are integral to learnability, and their project should nurture and inspire these qualities in others. Learnability is a key component of work readiness. It means the desire and ability to grow and adapt your skill sets to remain employable throughout your working life.
PMIEF Best Application of Project Management Award
This award recognises teams that have learned and demonstrated their ability to apply project management throughout the lifecycle of their project. It recognizes excellence in project management practices including superior planning, organization, innovation, execution and positive impacts on society.
The UniCredit Foundation ‘Re-power Your Future’ Award
The UniCredit Foundation ‘Re-Power Your Future’ Award recognizes those teams that either developed solutions aspiring to support social mobility of the next generation of youth or to elevate the communities they target through social engagement.
Alumni Leadership Award - with the support of Nestlé
The Alumni Leadership Award is an award given out to individuals, who demonstrate outstanding leadership skills, which impact their team and the JA company at GEN-E. This award aims to recognise and honour the personal strength of the individuals in a successful team.
Avanade Digital Innovation Award
The Avanade Digital Innovation Signature Award will recognize the young entrepreneurs who were best able to put their digital skills into practice to conceive an innovative business idea or concept.
BNY RESILIENT FUTURES AWARD
The BNY Resilient Futures Award celebrates forward thinking social enterprise start-ups that demonstrate resilience and innovation in shaping future systems. This award recognises ideas and endeavours that not only address current societal challenges but also anticipate and adapt to future trends, ensuring sustainability and fostering growth in an ever-changing landscape.
The Euroclear Financial Award
The Euroclear Financial Award recognises the Junior Achievement’s Student Start-up that exhibits most potential for financial viability and robustness, and a strong financial model.
Alumni Leadership Award – With the Support of Delta Air Lines
The Alumni Leadership Award is an award given out to individuals, who demonstrate outstanding leadership skills that impact their team throughout the JA programme.
Euroclear Financial Performance Award
The Euroclear Financial Performance Award recognises the Junior Achievement’s Student Start-up that demonstrates long term financial performance and robustness, and a strong financial model.
EY Gen-E Young Women Leaders Award
EY Gen-E Young Women Leaders Award recognizes three women who demonstrated outstanding inclusive leadership attributes and entrepreneurial leadership skills throughout the JA Europe Start Up programme
FedEx Access Award
The FedEx Access Award both at national and European levels puts emphasis on the importance of “global access” in a more than ever interconnected world. We aim to empower the next generation of Europe’s entrepreneurs to embrace global opportunities and to seek partners and customers beyond the national borders.
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