Young Entrepreneur of the Year

2010

Entrepreneurs are the life blood of any economy. It is their success that drives innovation and creates jobs. The 25 young entrepreneurs featured here have created 280 jobs and all of them have participated in JA-YE entrepreneurship education programmes.

The JA-YE Europe Young Entrepreneur of the Year Competition is now in its third year. These are inspiring success stories and each of them will tell you how important it was to them to have had an entrepreneurial experience at school. It was there that they learned the basics and, thanks to their teachers and volunteer business advisers, the encouragement they needed to strike out on their own.

Their entrepreneurial talent encompasses a wide range of activity including educational tools and services, web and application development and a host of innovative products.

‘Young’ entrepreneurs have perhaps the greatest potential of all—with a lifetime of opportunity in front of them. As you will see, some have been at it for several years already—even at the tender age of 25!—while others have barely begun. We applaud them all for their boldness and their spirit.

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Jørgen Clausencome from a family of entrepreneurs, and Danfoss is still a family-owned business today.

It is this heritage which has stemmed my big interest and passion for entrepreneurship education. I feel we have an obligation to educate and inspire young

people and give them as many opportunities as possible to see the fantastic world of entrepreneurship. To this end, I am a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and board member for Young Enterprise Denmark.

Organisations like JA-YE Europe are making a considerable contribution to increasing the number of people who choose to become entrepreneurs. The young people in this book are outstanding examples of the impact such educational initiatives can have. I have a dream that entrepreneurship will fl ourish in Europe so that we can compete with the many new economies and be able to create workplaces and new industries for many years to come.

I hope that the young entrepreneurs of the coming years will fi nd the same love and happiness in innovation and the development of new ideas, products and solutions that have made my own life so rich. The world of creation is by far the most rewarding you can possibly embrace – I hope for all of you that this world will also be yours!

Nothing beats the feeling you get when you have made a real diff erence to the world and to other people!

Danfoss is headquartered in Denmark and manufactures and sells products and solutions within the cooling and air conditioning industry with a turnover of 3.5 billion Euro in 2009. Danfoss is a global company with more than 25,000 employees and more than 100 factories worldwide that was started by an entrepreneur—Jørgen Clausen’s father—76 years ago in a room on top of the family farmhouse.

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JA-YE Young Entrepreneurs Adding Value

Distribution of Industries

The 25 young entrepreneurs featured range in age from 19 to 36 years old.

Between them they have formed 21 companies and have created 280 jobs.The 15 companies who disclosed fi nancial information had total turnover of €1,033,283 and projected turnover of €2,169,903.

Business products & services

Consumer goods & retail

Consumer services

Education products & services

Technical products & services

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24%

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Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winners 2009

At a gala awards presentation in Brussels, Benjamin Kainz & Oscar Lundin, Founders of “Ung Omsorg” were awarded the JA-YE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2009.

Benjamin and Oscar really impressed the judges because at the age of 21 and 20 respectively they had already built a successful social enterprise which employed over 400 people and has made a really positive impact on the lives of thousands of Swedish elderly. Now, one year on they have grown to employ 515 people.

When they received the award Oscar said; “We are honoured to receive this prestigious award. It means a lot to us and we are thankful to JA Sweden (Ung Foretagsamhet Sverige) for giving us the opportunity to try and test how to run a real company whilst we were still in secondary school.”

As a result of their award, over the past year, Oscar and Benjamin have been invited to take part in the following European promotional opportunities:

• CNBC article

• Euractiv article

• European Commission Your World, Your Business video & printed teaching resources

• Speakers at the closing conference of the European Year of Innovation & Creativity, Stockholm

• Speaker at JA-YE Europe Skills Summit panel session

They have also received wide spread media coverage in their home country and throughout Europe. Their achievement also prompted one of their key customers to advertise themselves promoting their link to the young entrepreneurs.

One year on we caught up with Oscar to find out what he thinks of the JA-YE Europe Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Why do you think the JA-YE Europe Young Entrepreneur Award is a good idea?

“Personally I think the Young Entrepreneur Award is great initiative. It shows that great national entrepreneurship has a possibility to make a global impact and that each one of us could create projects and business structures that could grow from one country to another if we just keep on fighting.

“The European Award says that we have to learn from each other and have the self confidence to think big and believe that it’s possible to change the world. Many problems and opportunities are not just national.”

What opportunities has winning the award brought you?

“For us as entrepreneurs the Young Entrepreneur Award shows that our company is solving an important problem, with potential not just in our home country, but also in the whole Western world.

“It has given us better self confidence and a chance to make an impact on both a European and International level.”

What opportunities has winning the award brought you?

“I think it’s a great way to spread the vision and brand of your company abroad.

The people who are connected to the JA-YE movement are all individuals who believe in the power of entrepreneurship and have new contacts and ideas who could help entrepreneurs and start-ups to grow in a good way!”

JA-YE Europe

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Age: 24 & 24Employees: 7Business idea: An easy and efficient way for sport teams and sport clubs to simplify the communication between players, trainers and parents. Year founded: 2005Website: www.laget.se and www.klubben.se

“It all started when we played football and bandy and noticed a huge problem with getting information out to the team, everything from cancelled matches to pack lists before a training camp”, explains Johan. “When we had the chance to start our own company through Junior Achievement Sweden it felt like the perfect opportunity to try and solve this problem.”

The first product they developed was a service for sport teams where they can create their own homepage to facilitate communication. The service is free of charge for a team or club to use with the site being financed by adverts instead. Mikael explains “It’s a win-win model where the sports club get a homepage for free and the advertisers get an obvious and clear target group.”

Now, five years later, the company has grown from a “Company Programme” company to a large and expansive company that provides a service which is used by over one million Swedish people every month.

Johan Berglund & Mikael Blix CTO & CEOSportion Media Group Sweden

Age: 26Employees: 5 Business idea: Selling hand-made candles and accessories. Year founded: 2007Website: www.articadeau.com andwww.bougie-artisanale.com

Simon-Pierre founded the company ArtiCadeau sprl with two friends who he knew from college. “We discovered a gap in the market for high quality hand-made products and developed our business model to focus only on products that are fully hand-made in Belgium.”

At first the company focused on selling their hand-made candles, writing items and fashion accessories only through their website. Recently, they have enlarged their customer base by selling the candles directly to florists to use as a decorative item in their arrangements.

This new business development is already proving very successful only a few months after its start. Simon-Pierre explains his plans for the future; “we hope to continue this promising beginning. We want to increase our growing popularity and seduce more and more people by these unique items created in Belgium.”

Simon-Pierre Breuls Co-founder and administratorArtiCadeau SPRL Belgium

Age: 21Employees: 1Business idea: Supplying ice to event companies.Year founded: 2007Website: www.D-ice.nu and www.Get-ice.dk

The idea for producing and selling ice cubes first came to Lars while he was participating in the Company Programme from there Lars explains; “as my interest for YE increased my idea got better. I participated in every single event and lecture held by YE and I knew this was what I wanted to do.”

In early 2007 he started his company and bought the machinery required to start production. Three years later the company has invested heavily and is now able to provide enough ice to supply the largest festivals in Denmark.

Lars adds; “I started the company because I needed to! Through YE, I had heard a lot of young people talking about their successful companies and I realised it was my dream to accomplish starting my own business. It’s been so exciting and incredible and now the company is up and running, it’s even more fantastic!”

Lars A. Christensen CEO / FounderD-ice.nu Denmark

Age: 36Employees: 3Business idea: Full service photography business offering wedding, social, event and commercial photography solutions. Year founded: 2005Website: www.insightphotographers.co.uk

Andrew was part of a Company Programme team in 1990 and was awarded the regional title of ‘best MD of the Year’ by the British Institute of Management.

After graduation he relocated to Ontario and worked as a teacher involved in Enterprise Education. Alongside his day job he also worked on developing his skills as an amateur photographer and his first big break came when he was hired as a portrait and sports photographer in Whistler ski resort. On a visit back to the UK in 2004 he spotted an opportunity to offer a ‘North American style’ of wedding photography and so set to work on developing Insight Photography as a brand.

As a committed business networker and active YE volunteer, Andrew has firmly established his business in his local region and is continuing to grow further afield. He explains “without the YE experience, I’m not sure if I could or would have taken such risks in my young life!”

Andrew Crozier Photographer/Business OwnerInsight Photography United Kingdom

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Age: 27Employees: 7Business idea: Web application development and design company. Year founded: 2003Website: www.think.com.mt

Christopher first became involved with JA-YE as a Company Programme student and his team succeeded in making it all the way to the European finals in Germany that year. He explains; “since then my involvement in JA-YE has continued as I have helped out with the organisation and implementation of various events throughout the years.”

He formed his business with his partner during university and they ran it alongside their studies. Christopher explains; “once we left university we concentrated on growing the company and increasing our revenue. Whilst previously offering a broad range of services, we decided to specialize and to focus our efforts on web application development aiming to be the industry leader in this area.”

Think Design carry out work for a number of Malta’s leading companies including the development and design of corporate websites, the development of online software systems and the integration of third party software systems with custom built web applications. Christopher is now aiming to increase their market base overseas.

Christopher CutugnoDirector Think Design Limited Malta

Age: 25 & 25Employees: 134Business idea: To help young people realise their dreams of studying abroad by offering higher education institutions a range of services in the student recruitment field. Year founded: 2008Website: www.dreamfoundation.eu

The Dream Foundation aims to make the study abroad experience as smooth as possible for everyone involved! Working with Higher Education institutions and prospective students Lauri and Sten handle everything from organising entry exams and language testing right though to promotional campaigns and applicant counselling.

The company runs their central IT systems from their HQ in Estonia and have a network of local representatives in each country to counsel applicants, carry out information campaigns and translate information into the local language.

Lauri explains; “we started Dream Foundation because we saw there was a need to help people. It has been an extremely interesting, ambitious and developing path and we are looking forward to the coming years.”

Today Dream Foundation is one of the biggest organisations of its kind in Europe with a global vision and ambition to continue its fast growth and expand to many new countries during the next few years.

Sten adds; “we participated in several JA programmes which influenced us a lot. We are extremely thankful to JA Estonia for all their support, ideas and great cooperation over the past!”

Lauri Elevant & Sten RinneDevelopment Manager & Financial Manager Dream Foundation Estonia

Age: 22Employees: 2Business idea: Simple, effective solution for collecting medical stool samples. Year founded: 2006

Christian explains; “to understand our product you must understand the issue we solve. In the process of collecting stool samples patients often have to resort to creative solutions. Our product is a paper sheet that is placed on the toilet covering the bowl area. The patient then uses the toilet as normal. The area covering the bowl is then easily reachable for the patient and there is no need for other creative solutions.”

Patent problems and a bankrupt investor meant that Christian had to leave his previous job to work full time to save the company. After a long patent process the product was introduced to market in late 2009 and with an estimated market of nearly 20 million samples per year Christian thinks that after months of struggle the future is now brighter than ever.

“As I have learned, experienced and fought for my company my big inspiration has been working with the Danish and European JA-YE alumni organizations” explains Christian, “the support and interest from other entrepreneurs has brought me to where I am today.”

Age: 21 & 23Employees: 2Business idea: Mobile application development agency. Year founded: 2009Website: www.mobilejuice.be

Brecht and Miquel started their company after participating in the SBP project that was organized in corporation with Vlajo. Brecht explains; “from here we learned a lot and after a successful period in our last year at school we decided to go further with the company.”

MobileJuice is a creative, dynamic and innovative IT-company that specialises in developing mobile applications such as iPhone and Android applications. The team focus on two different strategies the first being B2B applications where they develop applications for other companies such as Touring Mobilis, Sporza and De Redactie. Secondly they develop B2C applications delivering their own ideas to the mobile market place.

Miquel explains; “Mobiles are everywhere, it’s your life in your pocket. MobileJuice aims to guide you through all this by providing mobile applications and websites that attract and convince people.”

Christian Erfurt-HansenCo-founder Innocare Ltd. Denmark

Brecht Fourneau & Miquel VermeulenZaakvoerderMobileJuice Belgium

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Age: 23Employees: 4Business idea: Range of photographic and video services. Year founded: 2004Website: www.fotovision.ro

Bartha started his company while he was at school by taking photographs of his classmates. In 2003 he took part in the JA Student Company competition and after a series of presentations came third in Romania. Bartha explains; “when I finished school in 2004, I started this company. At first I just took pictures of my schoolmates but now we take pictures of graduating students and market ourselves to potential clients who might require wedding photography.”

The company currently offers wedding photography and video, advertising photography, portrait photography, graduation photography and a range of personalised greeting cards.

Bartha GergelyPhotographer Foto Vision Romania

Age: 27Employees: 25Business idea: Helping companies to fulfil their marketing goals utilising the Social API functionalities provided by social networks like Facebook. Year founded: 2007Website: www.komfo.com

During his master studies at Sofia University, Ivaylo had the chance to participate in a JA-YE programme as a CEO of a student company. He explains; “from today’s prospective I can appreciate that I learned lessons then that were crucial for making the right choices in later life. I learnt that a team works better when people share the same goals and that sooner or later hard work brings success, so never give up!”

With a firm belief that inspiring people would be the key to his teams’ success he formed his own business. Komfo is now one of the leading companies in the field of social software applications. Ivaylo adds “back then I had an idea to combine my IT expertise with my vision of the future of technologies: social media and sharing. It turned out that this was the right path to follow and Komfo has now achieved a special place in today’s social marketing business area.”

Ivaylo HristovDirector of Business Development Komfo Bulgaria

Age: 19Employees: 12Business idea: To empower and inspire the minds of young people about enterprise and entrepreneurship through the ‘World At Your Feet’ book and ‘Teen-Trepreneur’ board game. Year founded: 2008Website: www.theworldatyourfeet.com

Sabirul set up his first business, through the Young Enterprise Company Programme he explains; “for those growing up in backgrounds, or being raised in families, where aspiration levels are low, it’s a challenge. Company Programme really made a difference for me.”

Now Sabirul’s vision through ‘The World At Your Feet’ is to empower the minds of people across the world that “belief and inspiration is a gateway to opportunity and success.” He has developed two main products the ‘World At Your Feet’ book which promotes the ideas of risk taking, trying something new and developing enterprise skills and the ‘Teen-Trepreneur’ educational board game. Both products aim to highlight an individual’s strengths and weaknesses and develop young peoples skills to help them turn their visions into reality. Sabirul explains; “they empower the minds of young people so they believe that they can achieve success and gain an understanding of the key elements that develop a person from ordinary to extraordinary.”

The first edition of his book sold 42,500 copies in the UK and a second edition has now been published.

Age: 25Employees: 1Business idea: A high-technology company focused on the implementation of technologies for visual similarity, search, and recognition of digital images. Year founded: 2008Website: www.stockpodium.com

Georgi founded his business while studying a “Technological Entrepreneurship” Masters programme in Sofia University. He explains; “thanks to my previous experience with JA, I managed to start quickly and confidently. I developed a visual similarity technology called Imagga and started looking for business opportunities.”

After developing several working prototypes of applications he won first place in the NOVATech Bulgaria’08 Innovative Ideas Business Plan Competition. From there he progressed through the competition and made it as a finalist to the Mini Seedcamp London’09.

Since May 2009 he has been developing the StockPodium product which is an online marketplace for images which utilises the visual similarity search Imagga technology. With StockPodium he won NOVATech’09 and took part as finalist in NOVATech Tel Aviv’09. Currently StockPodium is operating as a micro-stock photo search engine and is just starting to generate its first revenues from affiliate commissions. In the future Georgi plans to evolve his business into an agency that directly resells micro-stock images.

Sabirul IslamCEO The World At Your Feet United Kingdom

Georgi Kadrev Managing Director Imagga Bulgaria Ltd. Bulgaria

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Age: 19Employees: 5Business idea: Creating websites to enable companies to attract more customers. Year founded: 2009Website: www.Yngvi-Design.dk

Yngvi started his first business in 2005 and since then has been analyzing and researching internet solutions. He explains; “I started because I needed a homepage myself. Then I saw there was an interesting opportunity for developing my own business and creating value that someone would be willing to pay for.”

Since August 2009 he has focused fulltime on his business and has already received two investment offers.

”My business model is simple,” he explains “I know how my customers can get higher revenues with a website developed by my company. I can optimize their homepage so they get more costumers and right now I am working on a system so I can deliver higher volumes of customers with reduced variable costs.” The products are sold on a license basis which provides the company with annual recurring income.

Yngvi Karlson VatnhamarOwner Yngvi-Design Denmark

Age: 19Employees: 2Business idea: Designing and producing interior accessories made from recycled iron. Year founded: 2008Website: www.sunniemenkasityopaja.blogspot.com

“I took part in the JA Company Programme two years ago and I chose the programme because it sounded very interesting” explains Virpi. The mini-company she formed with school friends designed and made decorative items from recycled iron. The team won the Company of the Year Competition in Finland and as Virpi explains “some of the main reasons we won were our good results, our incredible learning story and the fact that we had found ourselves a lifetime career.”

After that experience, during the last year of secondary school, Virpi set up her own business with the same idea. “My father is my role model”, explains Virpi “he has his own blacksmiths store and I have always admired him. After the Company Programme I had totally different career plans. It changed my life and gave me the courage to set up my own business.”

She currently produces a range of products based on customers requirements and is running her business while continuing her studies.

Virpi Kivistö Entrepreneur /CEO Sunniemen Käsityöpaja Finland

Age: 26Employees: 13Business idea: Delivering eLearning content for the corporate and academic sectors. Year founded: 2007Website: www.ascendia.ro

Cosmin started his company based on the idea that with technology and computers omnipresent computer-assisted education should be part of day to day life. He explains; “from this idea I thought, aside from specialists, teachers and pedagogy, there should be specialised companies to actually develop the digital content, with interactive applications, animations and simulations. Seeing the opportunity I grabbed it!”

Cosmin’s clients are organisations that integrate educational content into learning management systems or private companies that use e-content for their staff training. Ascendia Design also develops e-content for schools as part of a nation wide programme promoting computer-assisted education.

He explains; “we integrate the benefits of our experience and creative flair with instructional design methodology and psycho-pedagogical concepts. The result is scalable interactive eLearning content built on a foundation of learning objectives.”

Age: 26Employees: 6Business idea: T-RETO.com a social network website and T-RETO Events a vertical marketing agency focused on challenges, competitions and contests. Year founded: 2008Website: www.T-RETO.com

T-RETO.com is a social network website beta site designed with the main objective of creating user generated content. As David explains; “we create vertical communities through competitions where everyone is challenged to show what they are best at or show what they are capable of.”

The site has so far been very successful and has achieved better results than predicted. David explains; “once we have proved that T-RETO is a great tool for generating content, we will develop the next step of the business plan and spread our tool through “private labels” to companies and websites that are demanding user generated contents.” T-RETO’s main income comes from sponsorship of challenges and competitions on the website and the team have just raised 400k€ from Business Angels to develop the company further.

Throughout school David participated in a number of JA Spain programmes and explains; “I always had the desire to become an entrepreneur. My dad is an entrepreneur and I always wanted to follow his steps. Thanks to JA this feeling was strengthened and made me feel that it was something I could do and not just a dream.”

Cosmin MalureanuCEO Ascendia Design Romania

David Martin ArnanzCEO T-RETO Spain

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Age: 26 & 25Employees: 4Business idea: Distributes free ad-supported student planners to high school students in Bulgaria. Year founded: 2009Website: www.plannermediagroup.com

Svilen and Petar were heavily involved in JA programmes during their time at school, both taking part in the Company Programme and Manager of a Day programme. Their big idea came when Petar spent a semester in America he explains; “I brought back a copy of an ad-supported student organizer that was given to me for free. We were so excited that they worked hard all summer in order to develop the model for Bulgaria and we managed to produce 1,000 copies that we distributed for free.” Among the advertisers in that first edition were companies like DHL, GlaxoSmithKline and News Corporation and this success won them the First Prize for Best Business Plan at the 2003 Junior Achievement Bulgaria Awards.

Once the pair had completed their studies they decided to produce the planners on a larger scale Svilen explains; “The office of JA Bulgaria gave us invaluable support by helping establish connections with some of the high schools and once again the business model proved successful. We distributed 10,000 copies last year reaching one-third of the high-school students in Sofia.” In the next school year the company plans to increase their coverage through expansion to other cities in Bulgaria and as a franchise model to other countries.

Petar Petrov & Svilen Rangelov Co-Founders Planner Media Ltd. Bulgaria

Age: 25Employees: 16Business idea: Promoting cultural work exchange programmes to the United States for young people in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. Year founded: 2006Website: www.mystarway.com

Nenad’s involvement in JA started in 2003 when he took part in and won the MESE competition in Serbia. He explains; “as a reward I represented Serbia at the Global Trade Conference in Chicago as a youth leader. Since then I’ve been helping JA to promote programmes in Serbia and by volunteering at events.”

He started his company as an undergraduate because he saw it as an opportunity to become financially independent. Now he juggles the business with his PhD studies.

He explains; “my company collaborates with several American companies. Our role is to screen applicants to make sure that they meet the employer’s requirements. We test their English skills, help students to choose a job, and finally guide them through the whole application and paperwork process.”

In order to develop his business he has hired part time student employees to promote his services at universities in Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nenad Ristic CEO Starway DOO Novi Sad Serbia

Age: 27Employees: 11Business idea: Bean2Bed manufacture, market and retail an innovative range of furniture - beanbags with beds inside! Year founded: 2005Website: www.Bean2Bed.com

Matts first taste of business came when he took part in the Young Enterprise Company Programme at school he explains; “the experience was incredible. I learnt how to work in a team, the importance of diversifying, reacting to circumstances and how to get coverage in the local media. All these skills were vital then and still are now.

“I strongly believe that my YE experience changed my whole career path. It steered me towards a marketing degree and to meeting my business partner which meant that Bean2Bed was born! As a result I am now signed up to be a YE volunteer in my local area.”

Bean2Bed designs, produces and retails a range of beanbags that transform into beds of different sizes. Selling online through their own website, retailers like Amazon and also in numerous furniture shops the company allows customers to specify the size, fabric and colour of their UK manufactured Bean2Bed products.

Matt adds; “I knew that there was a gap in the market and it was certainly worth taking the risk. We have recently celebrated our 4th birthday, have expanded into Europe and plan to launch in Australia in the near future.”

Age: 23Employees: 5Business idea: Digital agency providing webdesign, mobile applications and e-marketing. Year founded: 2008Website: www.originall.be

Originall started as part of the Vlajo Graduate Programme. Gunter explains; “the success of our company inspired the whole team to continue the venture so we decided to become young entrepeneurs.”

The company aims to help clients promote themselves on all applicable channels, whether that be a website, social media or brochures. They provide a wide range of services from basic web packages to full service concept design and delivery. Gunter explains; “for the basic package the setup cost is low and our revenue comes from customization as well as recurring income from support and hosting.”

For the full-service segment he explains “we develop and deliver print media, websites, social media and digital marketing campaigns. Here the promotion costs are higher, but the return on investment is also higher.”

Matt Roberts Founder Bean2Bed.com United Kingdom

Gunter Van Steen Managing Director Originall Belgium

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Age: 30Employees: 12Business idea: Network of companies working in field of automotive design and engineering, industrial design and engineering, consultancy, and business and social entrepreneurship and networking. Year founded: 2007Website: www.agvdesign.net

AGV Design is an engineering and product development company which designs, analyses, and engineers products in industries ranging from Aerospace, Defense, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical, Automotive and Motorsports through to consumer products.

Their services include scientific engineering, industrial design, mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, design of renewable energy systems and technology, prototyping/model making and Reverse Engineering.

Ilija took part in a range of JA-YE programmes during his education and is now involved as a judge in the National business plan competition. He explains; “I started to create my network of companies in 1999 and today we’re active in postal transport, automotives, manufacturing, design engineering and R&D for innovations and implementation of new technology.”

In 2007 he won first price in a state competition for Best Business Plan, in 2008 he was selected to present products and business plans to EU Business Angels

Ilija Vuckov Founder, Owner & President AGV Design Network Republic of Macedonia

and was also selected by UNESCO to participate in the world conference for entrepreneurship and knowledge held in Doha, Qatar. As a social innovator he co-founded GBEN (Global Borderless Entrepreneurs Network) which will host its first world-wide conference in Skopje in 2010.

Currently his team are working on a Euro2.1M project to create NEVs (neighbourhood electric vehicles).

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