2021 JCI European Conference Program

The JCI Debating Competitions (First Rounds) will be held in French and in English.

The JCI Public Speaking Competitions (Preliminary Rounds) will be held in French and in English.

The JCI Opening Ceremony – get your flags ready, have a drink, and enjoy the official start of the European Conference!

JCI RISE and Shine – get catapulted into the online conference with a true JCI event feeling.

Learn all about empowerment for your virtual team – aligned with the RISE initiative.

Join the JCI Debating Competitions – they will be held in English, French, and German. This will be exciting with all that European talent around!

Take your network to the next level! This networking session will let you connect with entrepreneurs from around Europe for mutual benefit. Need a business partner, client, or supplier? There’s a JCI member that can help.

It is an interactive session on wonder.me with predefined corners of interest like law, retail, producing industry, travel industry, events management, finance business, IT etc.

The name says it all,  doesn’t it? Grab a  drink, get comfy and join us for some drinks. A great opportunity to meet old and new friends alike.

Cornel Amariei is a Romanian-born inventor, speaker, and entrepreneur, known for funding .lumen – Empowering the Blind, a startup that builds glasses that help the blind live a better life. Cornel was born in a family where both of his parents have locomotive disabilities and his sister cerebral disabilities. Before funding .lumen, he had the Head of Innovation position at Continental Automotive Systems. For this work, Cornel was inducted by Forbes in the first Forbes 30 under 30 Europe, is the first Romanian to be a laureate in JA’s Global Business Hall of Fame, and is the first Romanian to be selected as a Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, in 2018

2021 JCI President Ryubun Kojima and 2021 JCI Vice President Pheng Kouch, secured substantial cash prizes for winners of the Creative Young Entrepreneur (CYE) program at the four Area Conferences and at the World Congress!

The four first place winners in the Creative Young Entrepreneur (CYE) Area Conference program will now receive a $5,000 USD prize! This prize is thanks to the kind support of 2021 JCI President Ryubun Kojima who, in the ever-prevalent spirit of collaboration, has graciously donated $20,000 USD to further the development of enterprising young leaders around the world.

The first-place participants from each of the Area Conferences will be able to take this $5,000 prize and improve their businesses even more – however all of the CYE contestants will be able to take tangible gains from the competition! Second-place CYE winners will receive a free ticket to a 2022 Area Conference. The top 3 candidates from each Area Conference will be invited to pitch at the World Congress for the title of Global Creative Young Entrepreneur of the Year. 

We are also happy to announce that this Global Creative Young Entrepreneur of the Year will win at the JCI World Congress a Global Grand Prize of $10,000 USD, thanks to the generous support of 2021 JCI Vice President Pheng Kouch who has pledged this amount for the next three years. He will therefore be donating a total of $30,000 USD in prize money over 2021, 2022 and 2023 in order to ensure the sustainability of CYE as a global JCI project, providing long-term support to the spirit of entrepreneurship and the JCI RISE initiative. Second-place CYE winners will receive a free ticket to the 2022 World Congress.  

All participants who register for CYE at the 2021 Area Conferences will receive complementary training and mentoring valued at thousands of dollars. This training, delivered by jury members who are top entrepreneurs and investors, is for everyone who pays the $50 application fee, providing a huge return on investment that will supercharge the future earning potential of your business.

In addition to this exciting new amendment, and with the continued goal of providing the opportunity to as many young entrepreneurs as possible, several other key changes have been made to expand the admission rules of the CYE program.

Building profitable skills is another RISE initiative related session that can help you take yourself and your buisiness to the next level.

Are you curious about business networking and what our global JCI partner BNI is doing? Then you should definitely check  out  this session!

The name says it all: The JCI Public Speaking Competitions are all about finding the best public speaker. Polish your words, posture and get out there!

The goal is to encourage and foster creative problem solving, turning challenges into opportunities and know-how sharing among our members and their LOs and NOs.

Resilient Leadership with famous arctic discoverer Marek Kaminski, the first person in history who reached the North Pole and South Pole in the arctic expeditions in just 1 year. Currently, Marek Kamiński is working with leaders on a resilient approach to challenges. During the pandemic we have all experienced that crises can change us. This skills development session will focus on channeling the resilience we need to come out of this stronger than before – both in our everyday life and our businesses, personally and as leaders of our teams.

One year to lead is a wonderful opportunity to hone your leadership skills, to experience cooperation in international and global teams, to witness firsthand how a global leadership organisation is run, how policies are made, training is conducted and planned, how global strategies are implemented on local levels and much more, you do not have to be just an observer you can be the driving force behind the change you want to see in JCI as well as the world we all live in.

Goal

To clarify the structure of JCI, present development opportunities within various JCI committees, task forces as well as the EDC and BOD. Further to look at “job descriptions” of these positions and to answer any questions people considering furthering their JCI experience onto international or global level might have.

More info coming soon.

More info coming soon.

JCI RISE and Shine – get catapulted into the online conference with a true JCI event feeling.