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.

Citi Foundation Client Focus Award

The Citi Foundation Client Focus Award recognises the student company that excels at understanding and adapting to customer needs thus creating value for the customer.

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.

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.

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.

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 MELLON RESILIENT FUTURES AWARD

The BNY Mellon 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.

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