2022/23 Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT 2022/23

20 Million learning experiences per year by 2050 Boundless strategy laysthe blueprint for howJA will achieve our vision . . . ... a Europe in which young people havetheskillset andmindsetto buildthrivingcommunities

Message from the Chairman and CEO Consolidating JA’s strategy for 2050 The 2022-23 school year has been all about implementing our JA strategy and enshrining it in all the activities of our European network. Our growth in learning experiences has come from the four strategic areas: empowering the underserved, accelerating digital transformation, cultivating partnerships and strengthening OneJA to be sustainable. A lot of new initiatives, new partnerships, new areas of activity and impact for JA in Europe. As a network we are proud to present an ambitious vision for 2050 when we aim to empower 20 million young Europeans every year and hence ensure JA’s societal impact as a true agent of change. Reaching this ambition will require continued investment into digital skills and delivery, supporting the transition of our youth to employment and entrepreneurship, creation of new partnerships and further developing the talents of JA staff. Together, we are excited to embark on the ambitious journey to bring our impact to the next level. In this report you will find highlights of the past school year that plant the seeds of our future growth. As I am retiring from the position of Chairman after two mandates, I extend mywarmest thanks to fellow Board members and staff at JA Europe and all the JA Members across Europe for their unwavering commitment and passion to JA's mission. Adam Warby Salvatore Nigro Chairman of JA Europe CEO of JA Europe Board of Directors

EU Policy Makers Endorsing JA Mission Advocacy Roberta Metsola President of the European Parliament FERD’s List Honoree at JA Europe Leadership Summit in Malta

European CommissionersEndorsing JA Mission Advocacy JA Europe is providing thousands of students every year with the skills to bridge the digital gap and empower them to succeed in the digital economy. And for this, I'm deeply grateful! MARGRETHE VESTAGER, European Commission Executive VicePresident, Gen-E 2023 Opening Ceremony on July 2023 As we undergo major green and digital transformations, entrepreneurs are the driving force behind our future. Let's collaborate to design effective policies that empower young people, both women and men, to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. NICOLAS SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, at Gen-E 2023 Virtual Opening on May 2023 As we celebrate the European Year of Skills, opportunities like the Sci-Tech Challenge give young Europeans the space to develop and grow the skills they need today and tomorrow. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are and will be at the core of future-proof solutions we need for a more efficient, resilient and sustainable transport system. ADINA VALEAN, European Commissioner for Transport at Sci-Tech Challenge on May 2023 Principles like ocean health and marine protection should be taught in schools and this is what the European network of Blue schools is doing. VIRGINIJUS SINKEVICIUS, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries at Blue Challenge European final with Euronext in May 2023

EU Policy Makers Endorsing JA Mission Advocacy The EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative, a flagship of our #EUInnovationAgenda, has just reached its first major milestone! With the new tech organisations pledging to train over 500,000 deep tech talents, we are on the road to reach our 1M target! MARIYA GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth congratulating JA Europe among the first pledgers to EU’s Deep Tech Talent Initiative on March 2023 It is minds like yours that hold the potential to lead with innovative solutions to the pressing issuesour planet faces. By doing so, we can contribute to shaping our societies for the better! NICOLA PROCACCINI, Member of the European Parliament, message to Gen-E 2023 youth As a member of the European Parliament, I believe it is our responsibility to foster an environmentthat not only nurtures your ideas but also enables youth to flourish and make a global impact. EVA MAYDELL, Member of the European Parliament, message to Gen-E 2023 youth

Our impact in 2022-2023 school year Impact 5.600.735 +12% growth learningexperiences Inspire Prepare Succeed 2022 -2023 2.722.639 2.640.627 237.469 24% 1 % 24 % 2021 - 2022 2.198.352 2.607.501 190.790 2021/22 2022/23 *N. shownare excludingRussia(for comparative purposes) whichcounted 1.2mln in 2021/22. Total N. includingRussiain 2021/22 were6,2mln *slides and n. updated from the BoDfor data cleaning. Data providedfrom JADE as 16/11/23 .

Impact detail for 2022/2023 school year Impact 72,545 volunteers 108,460 educators/trainers • 76% growth of social media learning • Modular programmes are still the • 2x more facilitation into 76% learning experiences experiences compared to 2022 most popular LX employment with digital component • Digital interactions represent70% of • +12% Company Programme • Biggest increase in 59% learning experiences Inspire experiences +30% contact hours competitions target youthunder 15 years old • YouTube, Facebook andInstagram • Several variations of JA Company platforms most used Programme in the network

Our 2050 Inclusive Growth Ambition Strategy On the strategic cycle 2023-2025 4 strategic areas have been identified:

ACCELERATE DIGITAL

Direct to Youth Campaign Accelerate Digital WITH CONTENT CREATORS DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN launched targeting 500,000 young Ukrainians and local youth 13 JA countries In partnership with REVAMPED LEARNING PLATFORM @studydvizh @jaeurope togetherwithja.eu

Elevating the User Experience of Virtual Learning Accelerate Digital Digital marketplace for JA companies and start-ups Virtual stands for online competitions and digital marketing campaigns JA Company registration portal, with access to Gen-E and other JA opportunities Corporate stands for Gen-E partners & live engagement with youth at Virtual Job Fair

AI-Entr4Youth Accelerate Digital A new EU-funded project coordinated by JA Europe! Our goal is to equip young people with the necessary skills to navigate the digital world and prepare them for the future of work. A consortium of partners Equip youth with The consortium members The curricula cover Explore AI applications in from research, large- essential digital skills bring diverse expertise in AI, fundamental AI various industries, enterprise, schools, & for future work education, & concepts & ethical preparing students for Junior Achievement entrepreneurship considerations future career opportunities organizations Learn more! With the support of

EMPOWER THE UNDERSERVED TO SUCCEED

Support to Ukrainian Refugees Empower the Underserved to Succeed 150,000+ youth to be inspired EUR 4 million+ 20+ Countries 1 million pro-bono 25,000+ to be prepared through hands-on From corporate Ukraine relief funds, Ukraine, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, learning experiences corporate matching to employee Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, 7,000 increased connectivity thanks to laptop contributions, in-kind translation support, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, donation computer and software donations Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye Just for JA Ukraine:

Creating Economic Opportunities for All Empower the Underserved to Succeed Thanks to NN Group 6 COUNTRIES INVESTING IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS Scope Research More than 13,000 Partnerships JA Europe advocacy JA is well positioned but VET students withMinistries & Public Entities it needs to implement Disabled youth,migrants, andEmployers • Impact Week by EVPA changes! rural areas • OECD’s EECOLEinitiative in Romania, Spain, Netherlands • OECD-EU andGreece YouthEntrepreneurshipPolicy Academy

JA Talents Empower the Underserved to Succeed FOR RECRUITERS FOR JOB SEEKERS Find Gen Z Job Candidates Tear the paper ceiling holding you back from with an X FACTOR revealing your FULL POTENTIAL BECOME A MENTOR CV BUILDER ACCESS TO TALENT POOL SKILLS ASSESSMENT POST JOB OPPORTUNITIES TRAININGS MENTORING JOB OPPORTUNITIES

CULTIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

To Develop Shared Contentand/orBoldTech Cultivate Partnerships ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT ESG 600 youth 230,000+ youth checknimpact.org 4 countries 21 countries 3 JA regions and For JA Company Programme students Agence Universitaire de la to benchmark their mini companies Francophonie

European Institute of Technology Cultivate Partnerships JA EUROPE JOINED EIT DEEP TECH TALENT PLEDGE GOALS BY 2025: 1.000.000 Europeans trained in deep tech skills Strategic Areas: Accelerate Digital Empower the Underserved 40,000+ girls Cultivate Partnerships Strengthen OneJA

Entrepreneurial Skills PassTM Cultivate Partnerships ESP in numbers: Endorsements: . Partners: 5 JA regions 45 countries Education 4.0 Lighthouses Implementing - 50% Best Practice of 2023 in Europe 43,000 + ESP Holders Fighting youth unemployment 14,000 + Students European Parliament resolution engaged 28 Languages The ESP as a reference on how entrepreneurship is taught and learnt as a key competence by the European Commission.

STRENGHTEN ONE JA TO BE SUSTAINABLE

Leveraging JA's Greatest Asset: Our Alumni Community Strengthening OneJA JA Alumni Europe in numbers ▪ 14,000 registered member alumni ▪ 25 official member nations / JA Alumni Networks ▪ Active in 34 nations ▪ 13,616 hours of national volunteering for JA ▪ 47,638 hours of national added value to members ▪ An average of 15 alumni events per year for each country ▪ 11,248 alumni mentoring JA students internationally

JA Alumni Europe Conference 2023 ONE BIG NETWORK Strengthening OneJA With the central theme of

FERD's List 2023 Honourees The FERD’s List aims to identify young people who achieved outstanding results in their lives after the JA experience. Strengthening OneJA Irena Matraku Marisa Xuereb Albania Malta Malthe Bruun Ludvigsen Matěj Kapošváry Denmark Czechia The 2023 FERD’s List Honourees at the Award Ceremony, together with Johan H. Andresen, Salvatore Nigro and Moris Vandevyver at the JA Alumni Europe Conference Vivien Wysocki Robin Røed Germany Norway

AmCham EUYouthEntrepreneurshipAward The annual Youth Entrepreneurship Awardrecognisesyoung people who have chosen to becomeentrepreneurs andaims tofoster entrepreneurshipin Europe. Strengthening OneJA st 1 Place - Natalia Konova Founder and CEO of AMIRA Meditech, JA Bulgaria Alumna nd 2 Place - Alexandra Dimitriadou CEO and Co-Founder of MammoCheck JA Cyprus Alumna rd 3 Place - Alexia Vasilaki Co-Founder of Drug n Drop JA Greece Alumna 60th Anniversary Gala AmCham EU and Award Ceremony of the AmCham EU Youth Entrepreneurship ward, in presence of Vice President of the European Commission Věra Jourová and CEO of AmCham EU Susan Danger.

Invest In Sustainable BusinessModels Strengthening OneJA to be Sustainable In 2022/23 JA Europe started exploring the creation of a Venture Network (PRECEDE) to support young entrepreneurs

GEN-E 2023

GEN-E Europe's Largest Entrepreneurship Event Spring 2023, Online / 11-14 July 2023, Istanbul GEN-E 2023

European Final Competition OVER 390.000 YOUTH STARTED THE JOURNEY GEN-E 2023 TOTAL ONSITE PARTICIPANTS: 803 TOTAL JURY NUMBER: 47 TOTAL NUMBER OF TEACHERS: 101 TOTAL STUDENT BUSINESSES: 71 NUMBER OF JA STAFF: 201 NUMBER OF JA OFFICES: 42 NUMBER OF ALUMNI ATTENDEES: 59 #Gen_E NUMBER OF NATIONALITIES: 53

FedEx Masterclass GEN-E 2023

High Level Policy Session WITH Youth empowerment through education - Focus on underserved youth. GEN-E 2023

The EY Entrepreneurship Lab Hosted by JA Alumni Europe WITH GEN-E 2023

Educator's Sessions with How to advance your students' projects with agile methods? The future of entrepreneurship is sustainable GEN-E 2023

Gen-E Virtual Expo & Job Fair Pan-European student company registration platform for all JA youth GEN-E 2023 VIRTUAL EXPO VIRTUAL JOB FAIR ONLINE ANALYTICS Connecting partners with youth & bridge from JA experience to further Unique Users: 50,900 opportunities Year on Year Growth: 400% + Pan-European student company Page views: 500,000 registration platform for all JA businesses JA Companies and Start ups: 803 JA Companies and Start ups: 803 Virtual Stands Built: 581 Online Award Applications: 1012 Navigate it

European Media Coverage GEN-E 2023

National Media Coverage GEN-E 2023

Gen-E Social Media Reach GEN-E 2023 2021 2022 2023 Equivalent reach in impressions REACH: the total number of people .4 2021 2022 2023 who see your content 7 12 MLN 12 MLN 24 MLN IMPRESSIONS: number of times your content is displayed. approx* .6 2023 IN DETAIL .33 3 7.509.801 2.585 421.624 406.433 SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL MEDIA REACH FOR #GEN_E MENTIONS INTERACTIONS LIKES SOCIAL MEDIA REACH DATA ARE EXPRESSED IN MILLION * To be able to track more in deep our activity on social media in January 2023 JA Europe replaced the RELATED TO THE HASHTAG #GEN_E previous tool. The new tools doesn’t track impressions so cannot give a precise number, only a projection based on previous years. The number is estimated to be bigger.

Media Coverage GEN-E 2023 EUROPEAN/GLOBAL COVERAGE COVERAGE BROADCAST NEWS REACH BROADCAST REACH 9 2 398,235 150 MLN NATIONAL COVERAGE COVERAGE LIVE TV SERVICES RADIO TOTAL COVERAGE 85 4 2 91

Overall Social Media & Online Reach OVERALL POSTS POSTS IMPRESSIONS POSTS REACH CHANNELS IMPRESSIONS 1.7K 1.3 MLN 760K 8.6 MLN From 1.3k From 966k From 440k From 4.7 MLN FOLLOWERS GROWTH OVERALL PERIOD TWITTER LINKEDIN FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM JULY 2022 5.384 7.630 14.291 2.333 JULY 2023 (including Gen-E) 6.084 9.161 14.596 3.451

FINANCIALS

Annual Accounts 2022-2023 Balance Sheet

Annual Accounts 2022-2023 Income Statement Turnover in € 2020 2021 2022 2023

Pass-through 14,000,000 € 12,000,000 € 10,000,000 € 8,000,000 € 6,000,000 € 4,000,000 € 2,000,000 € - € 2018 - 2019 2019 - 2020 2020 - 2021 2021 - 2022 2022 - 2023 2023 - 2024 Pass Through Projects and Others CAGR CAGR CAGR 2018 -2019 2019 - 2020 2020 -2021 2021 -2022 2019 - 2022 2022 -2023 2019 –2023 2023-2024 2019 –2024 Total Revenue-€ 6.5M € 6.8M€ 6.3M € 6.9M € 7% 10.5M€ 63% 13.2M€ 104% Total Pass-Through-€ 3.6M€ 3.7M€ 3.5M€ 3.6M € -3% 6.2M € 70% 8.2M € 123%

Equity and reserves 1,200,000 € 1,004,861 € 1,000,000 € 800,000 € 600,000 € 400,000 € 709,560 € 200,000 € 363,068 € 41,445 € 224,674 € 219,138 € 203,705 € - € 2015 2016 - 2017 2017 - 2018 2018 - 2019 2019 - 2020 2020 - 2021 2021 - 2022 2022 - 2023 Growth –Year on Year 392% 8% 3% 62% 95% 42%

GOVERNANCE

JA Europe Board 2022-2023 A distinguished and passionate group of high-level impact individuals committed to youth empowerment

JA Europe Team

This is JA in Europe JA ALBANIA JA ESTONIA JA ICELAND JA NORTH MACEDONIA JA ROMANIA JA ARMENIA ENTERPRENDRE POUR JA IRELAND JA MALTA JA RUSSIA (inactive) APPRENDRE- JA FRANCE JA AUSTRIA JA FINLAND JA ISLE OF MAN JA MOLDOVA JA SERBIA VLAJO - BELGIUM FL FONDEN FOR JA ISRAEL JA MONTENEGRO JA SLOVAKIA ENTREPRENØRSKABS (observer) LJE – BELGIUM FR IW JUNIOR - JA GERMANY JA ITALY JONG ONDERNEMEN - JA SLOVENIA NETHERLANDS UNGT JA SPAIN JA BULGARIA JA GEORGIA JA LATVIA ENTREPRENØRSKAP - NORWAY JA CYPRUS JA GREECE JA LITHUANIA JA POLAND JA SWEDEN Jonk JA CZECH REPUBLIC JA MAGYARORSZÁG - ENTREPRENEUREN JA PORTUGAL JA SWITZERLAND HUNGARY - LUXEMBOURG JA TÜRKIYE YOUNG ENTERPRISE - JA UKRAINE (observer) UNITED KINGDOM

TJ Bata Quality Award 2022 Leadership, Impact and Innovation JA Malta was recognized as the best-in- class JA Model Organisation for its outstanding performance in leadership, innovation and impact. Since 2009, this award recognises the member organisation that performs long-term at high quality standards and substantially contributes to achieving JA Europe's strategic goals. In addition, a total of 28 JA Europe member organisations received the prestigious Model Organisation Award during JA Europe Leadership Summit.

JA Europe Leadership Summit 2023 – hosted by JA Malta Leadership, Impact and Innovation The JA Europe Leadership Summit 2023 took place between 16-17 March in Malta. Hosted by JA Malta, the international conference welcomed JA Europe Board and national JA CEOs and Board Members from over 40 countries. The delegates designed the pathway to reaching JA's global ambition of empowering 100 million youth every year, along 4 strategic areas. At the same occasion, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, visited the Marketplace where JA Malta students showcased their business realised through the JA Company Programme.

Thanks to PARTNERS DONORS SPONSORS

Institutional Partners

Our European Partners/ Donors/Sponsors Gold Partners

Our European Partners/ Donors/Sponsors

European Commission projects Programme Project Role Contract JA countries involved JA Europe Amount funding Erasmus+ Operating Lead 175.000 € n/a 175.000€ Grant Erasmus+ AI-Entr4Youth Lead 788.202 € Italy, Spain andPortugal 242.105 € Latvia,Ireland, Czech Republic, Austria, Erasmus+ Skills4Retail Lead 3.957.154 € Romania, Portugal, Hungary and Malta 623.845 € Norway, Belgium,Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, Horizon RE-VALUE Partner 12.762.052 € Turkiye, Czech Republic, Serbia and Slovenia 683.545 € EuropAid EU4YOUTH Lead 874.995 € Moldova, Ukraine,Georgia and Lithuania 126.134 € Creative Cultural Bees Lead 999.307 € Italy, Cyprus and Bulgaria 194.778 € Europe Erasmus+ EMPASS Lead 866.255 € Spain, Greece and Romania 284.599 €

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