JADE Romania update

Because the last months were filled with events, we have some visible progress done by JADE Romania, besides electing a preliminary board and a president, setting up the budget, questioning about our future headquarters, and the internal rules of the Confederation.

Since March 2010 I am the proud International Relations Manager of JADE Romania. I seem to love a lot the international part, therefore I wanted to be part of this,  and I can take advantage of my prior experience as International Manager of ‘Business Organization for Students’ aka B.O.S from Bucharest.

We appeared in the JADE Gazette March edition-  pages 9-10, where you can read our whole experience before forming the confederation.

JADE Romania is now on JE.NET, a project of Brasil Junior (JADE’s sister organization from across the ocean) in collaboration with JADE. This is a database of all Junior Entreprises in the networks, for bridging collaboration between JEs and Confederations. The description for JADE Romania is here: http://www.brasiljunior.org.br/jenet/federation/view/29

You can read a good article about this written by Elena Sotropa- here.

Things are moving, and I am extremely happy about it.

JADE Romania has a logo

We’ve just received our official logo. Meanwhile we are working to develop the internal structure. After the first teambuilding with the JADE Ro team we have started working on issues like ellections, voting systems, bugets, internal strategies. It’s a lot of work but we are glad we have the support of other Confederations.

The teambuilding was was very important – beause the presidents of the JEs managed to meet and discuss many things and established a communication protocol between them.

And enough talking: here is the logo (with special thanks to JEDES the Italian JE who created our logo).

Think different

This is dedicated to those that are crazy enough to believe that they can change the world. No wonder that my motto is ” Be the change you want to see in the world”. Even though many believed that I was crazy to want to establish a  brand new Confederation of Entrepreneurs now in March, that we couldn’t do it and we weren’t prepared we proved them wrong.

Thanks alot to all of you who believed in me and in my team and helped us along the way. A big thank you should go to Kaweh Dashti- a JADE UK Alumnus who advised us every single step of the way and who cared enough to cheer us up and show us where we did wrong and what we could have improved.

Thank you all for showing me that I was crazy enough to believe…

JADE Romania is alive!

10 years ago there was a Junior Initiative from Romania to start building a new confederation- based on the entreprenorial spirit, but this didn’t happen at that time.

Our story started last year when B.O.S and TP&C representatives met in Brussels and realised that they both wanted to apply as Consultative Members in the JADE Network. Because they didn’t know of the existence of each other and met for the first time in Brussels that was interpreted as a sign of poor communication. This wasn’t the case because we didn’t know another organization wanted to go for the same thing. They both were refused as consultative members but an idea of building a confederation based on BOS and TP&C was born…

Time went by and here we are after a year, recently ellected as a new member of the JADE Network. After the last spring meeting- the two organization started to work together and build an Enlargement team. This enlargement team was formed initially by me- Simona Lascu, International Manager at B.O.S (Business Organization for Students), Andreea Paraschiv- a friend of mine and Marketing Manager at B.O.S, and Ruxandra Boscaneanu the International Manager of TP&C Cluj. Since November 2009 our team has enlarged with another TP&C member- Roxana Demian, and since January 2010 with the president of Teaching- Roxana Muscalu - from the third organization we have chosen to form the confederation with us.

It was a long road, filled with face to face meetings both in Cluj and in Bucharest, with endless mail-ing and skype meetings at odd hours, but we were really passionate and worked really hard to see JADE Romania happen.

Of course we had some advisers- because at the beginning we needed some guidance- and we received help from Raluca Hritcu- a former BOS member who started this movement from the part of B.O.S, as well from Elena Sotropa- former Vicepresident JADE UK and members from the current JADE ExBo:  Adelina Peltea – B.O.S Alumnus and of course from the JADE President- Antonia Sariyska.

We are extremly happy to see this happen after a lot of hard work, after attending international events in Kosovo, Brussels, Barcelona or London and we are happy we’ve met some awsome people who share our vision and our entreprenorial spirit. Now we will continue with our hard work because we have to set up legally this brand new confederation.

Congrats to us, we need to party!

P.S. I am sorry for those that were present in the General Assembly and could hear my neighbours drilling the walls. I had a previous post complaing about them-so u should keep in mind that the drilling had no agenda on my presentation ) . I am sorry I couldn’t be physically there but I had my voice and my spirit with you guys and I shared the emotions and drilling  with you. We will meet and party the next time!