Who we are
JEst Junior Enterprise
A Junior Enterprise is a no profit association managed by University of Padua students, designed and organized as a real company with a board and functional areas.
The main goal is to close the gap between the academic environment and the job market, running projects and events and creating opportunities to practice the knowledge acquired in the classroom and develop new competences through training courses.
JEst Junior Enterprise
A Junior Enterprise is a no profit association managed by University of Padua students, designed and organized as a real company with a board and functional areas.
The main goal is to close the gap between the academic environment and the job market, running projects and events and creating opportunities to practice the knowledge acquired in the classroom and develop new competences through training courses.
Associates
Functional areas
Alumni
Advisors
Active projects

Vision
JEst’s aim is to speed growth,
promote excellence and
develop the future talents.
Mission
Through training courses and projects in partnership with companies , we add value to academic knowledge in an exciting, dynamic and innovative environment. We develop both hard and soft skills which will be a competitive advantage in the working world.

Values
Passion
Entrepreneurship
Sustainable growth
Sharing
Our network
Our network

JEst is part of an Italian, European and world network of Junior Enterprises.
JE Italy is the national confederation of Junior Enterprises. Beyond supporting and JEs connecting activities, it represents the Movement both in Italy and abroad, dealing with training courses and best practices sharing.
JE Italy is currently made up of 25 JE and 6 Junior Initiative that are going to become JE and 1000 JEurs, who work on more than 190 projects every year.
In Europe, JEst is part of JE Europe.
It was born in 1992 as JADE, Junior Association for the Development in Europe. In 2019, after a rebranding, the name changed into JE Europe and today has
JEurs
JE
Years
Projects every year
Simply JEst
Awesome people
Our driver is people, flexible, starving for challenges and willing to play the game.
We invest in human capital to make everyone enhance their potential and their colleagues’, with a view to common growth, team working and innovative spirit.
Teamwork
Team working is today a no missing skill. People are our driver and we invest in team buildings and involving activities.
High value projects
JEst allows its associates to take part in many different projects. Everyone can select those ones more interesting, acquiring hard and soft skills, growing their entrepreneurial spirits and adapting to answer to what companies require.
Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals by ONU are reference and inspiring points in every activity JEst is involved in. We will to create a great impact on the environment we work in cultural, social, economical and ecological.
Partnership and collaborations
We love working in collaborative contests and building lasting relationships with realities of our territory, with companies, experts, JEs and other university associations.
Annual Report
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