Cooperation 4 NGOs

Maturita a co potom (The maturity and after?) an important moment in the life of one student, the moment for him to think about his/her future career but also to see the opportunities in her/his environment, what activities can he/she benefits from?

In the world via the entire Network, there are 4 Organization who can provide opportunities to the young people international experience and development of leadership by their complementarities. In Prague these launched the challenge to cooperate together, to use their resources and complementarities to offer to the young students of the country to discover involvement in associative world and also profit from training for their personal development.

These four networks are: Junior Achievement is the oldest and largest non-profit educational organization in the world. AIESEC is the world’s largest student-run organization. ERASMUS enables higher education students, teachers and institutions in 31 European countries to study for part of their degree in another country. And to finish Junior Chamber International the worldwide federation of young leaders aged between 18 and 40 years old.

These four organization organized on February 4^th, 2010 a workshop with in first part the presentation of the University of Economy of Prague, testimony of Entrepreneurs and Businessman who had experience in associative life to aware them about volunteer ship like Heinrich Homola, previous CEO in Vitana, currently freelancer in the company Systemic coach for executives.

And second part, the students were separate in different workshop with different training like “How to sell a project?” provided by our organization with the goal to be able to use basic technical sales to sell a project. This training develops method that can be used in associative life and also at work. These methods are well known by good sellers and they control them perfectly.

This event was the beginning of the long cooperation between our 4 organizations; it was a success with 80 students and 16 teachers from all Czech Republic who attend and was curious to learn about our network.

Keys to the SME's Sucess

JCI Praha was established to help networking among entrepreneurs, SMEs’ owners, individuals willing to establish companies, state authorities, academia and business service providers. Every business is about synergies, so by encouraging companies we help individuals who work there as well as their business partners and this approach might be the most effective solution to the crisis.

On November 28th, 2009, JCI Praha made its first Conference “Keys to the Sme’s Success at the University of Economy of Prague.
This conference was created in order to show maximum opportunities to SMEs on how they can cope with the economic crisis using 360° view namely managing corporate finance, adaptation of business planning & strategy, communication, marketing.
In this event around 50 attendees met, learnt and exchange about the evolution of the crisis with 8 companies providing speeches all the day. An opportunity to learn how to get investment in Czech Republic, How to developed a business and the conditions to start, saw how the crisis affect the companies and what is developed by Management department work to improve the communication and motivate its employees.

This conference was for all the public mixed between expatriate and young local entrepreneurs, they were able to meet company like PIC Europe, investment societies developed by Barry J Evans implanted for to 12 years in Prague who showed the investment opportunities and gave strategies used.
But also JCI Praha developed a special partnership with EEN CR - Technology Centrum (Technologické centrum Akademie věd). This company is involved with helping people by providing various information about different expertise ranging from information and advisory services about EU Framework program to technology transfer.
To finish attendees discovered new initiative and new entrepreneurs from Czech Republic like the concept of the Hub (is a work and social space where you can share your office, make your plans a reality, meet people or just work undisturbed), developed in London, Berlin, in 20 cities of the world which started this year in Prague by young local entrepreneurs.
It was a special day to network and discuss about entrepreneurship and an opportunity for JCI Praha and its team to show the by the way of our initiative our willpower to promote entrepreneurship and active citizenship.