The JWEF is an initiative derived from the World Entrepreneurship Forum, that was created in 2008 by EMLYON Business School and KPMG, and later joined by ACE Action Community for Entrepreneurship, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, ONLYLYON and Zhejiang University. The Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum is a global community of students and young entrepreneurs. The Junior World Entrep
reneurship Forum aims at promoting and accelerating junior entrepreneurship globally as a way to create wealth and social justice, to prepare the world of 2050. The Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum is the declination of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, dedicated to students who are interested in entrepreneurship and its challenges. It offers a unique opportunity to meet key players in the business world, and to dream of a society with a new model that promotes growth and the desire to undertake. These Junior Forums are organized by students and future entrepreneurs, who will invite personalities from the field of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, from governments and the academic world to exchange topics of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and share their own recommendations. In particular, the aim of the Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum is to gather the best students, politicians, entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs, to contribute to the vision of entrepreneurship as a means of creating wealth and social justice.
