A junior enterprise is a civil social nonprofit organization established and executed entirely by students of a university or a business school, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
The organization's purpose is to provide services for companies, institutions and society, often in the form of consultancies, while enriching the learning of its members with practical experience in the field of their studies.
The most common expertise areas for junior enterprises are business and management, engineering, marketing, communication, IT services and law.
The founding members were the Netherlands (FNJE), Portugal (JEP), Italy , Switzerland (USJE) and France.
The movement is also taking its first step in North America with the recent launch a cross-faculty Junior Enterprise at McGill University in Canada.