2nd prize winners "Activists";
Credit: JEL
The final of the third edition of My First Enterprise (MFE) competition, organised by Jonk Entrepreneuren Luxembourg (JEL), took place online on Monday 11 May 2020.
A total of 43 teams from ten secondary schools participated in this 2019-20 edition. The fifteen best teams were selected on the basis of an application submitted and analysed beforehand by a jury made up of professionals, who then awarded the three best teams.
The jury, composed of Petra Hazenberg (ACG Partner, Deloitte), Frédéric Sabban (Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Deloitte), Anne-Marie Solvi (Director, Paul Wurth Geprolux) and Erny Huberty (Head of Corporate Marketing, Enovos), had the difficult task of choosing the three winning teams during this first digital edition.
In order to determine the winners, the jury members based their decisions on the applications submitted beforehand, the originality of the project as a whole and the presentation during the final.
First prize went to the Boom Burgers & Co. team from Lycée Classique d'Echternach. Avery Li Yang Ligotti, Pedro Miguel Brochado Ramos, Carlo Gabriele Mancillas and Lara Fabiana Pinto decided to produce and sell their own local burgers. The team, accompanied by teacher Paul Kohnen, worked with the Luxembourg company Wietor-Viandes and used regional products to make their burger.
Second prize was awarded to the Activists team from Ecole Privée MarieConsolatrice, made up of Lorie Gang, Jessie Errichiello, Lara Hoffmann and Joy Schmit.
Environmental impact was at the heart of this team's concept which, by recovering old clothes, was able to create new objects such as class kits, for example. The team's teacher was Elisabete Dias de Andrade.
The third and final prize was awarded to the Schaffmänni team from Lycée Aline Mayrisch. Accompanied by their teacher Sandy Neu, Théo Meyers, Elena Lütjens, Stanley Vanderzypen and Tim Brockhoff offered their services to carry out small unfinished jobs within their respective neighbourhoods.
The MFE programme, launched in 2017, aims to develop entrepreneurial skills among young people. During a period of ten weeks, teams made up of three to four students try to make their starting capital of €40 grow through a purchase-sale activity of products and / or a free servicee. The students also benefited from training in business management provided by experts from Deloitte Luxembourg.
