A programme for secondary schools
From inspiration to your own project
How can a school develop entrepreneurship systematically, practically and without unnecessary extra work? Three connected activities guide students from the first impulse to their own entrepreneurial idea.
This programme was created in partnership with
What students gain
From enthusiasm to a first result
Students do not need another one-off lecture or an immediate leap into competition. They need room for motivation to become experience and experience to become a concrete result they can stand behind.
Each part builds on what students have just experienced. They carry questions, tested findings and greater confidence into the next step—from recognising their strengths to addressing a real need.
How the programme works
Three steps that make sense together
Students first question people who have genuinely experienced entrepreneurship. They then try its principles on their own topic and finally use what they learned to create and present a project.
All three parts form one secondary-school programme. Entrepreneurship Day is designed for about 30 students; the competition is particularly suitable for first- and second-year students.
Inspiration
Entrepreneurship Seminar
In 90 minutes, two entrepreneurs openly share their experience, successes and mistakes. Students ask questions and discover entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.
Experience
Entrepreneurship Day
Over seven hours, students identify their strengths, find a problem, validate it through interviews and design a first solution as a team.
Implementation
JA Pilot
Teams develop their project, prepare a presentation and receive feedback from an expert jury. The strongest advance to the national final.
What students take away
An idea is not enough
Entrepreneurship begins with noticing, but grows through contact with reality. Students learn to recognise an opportunity, test assumptions and adjust a solution to what people genuinely need.
Self-awareness, interviews, Lean Canvas, teamwork and presentation come together in one project for which students gradually take responsibility.
Strengths and initiative
Students recognise what they can offer a team and learn to take responsibility for the next step.
Fewer assumptions
They find meaningful problems, talk to people and adapt their idea to real needs.
Creating and defending a project
They divide roles, complete a Lean Canvas, create a visual identity and poster, and present their project to experts.
Value for teachers
The teacher is not alone
Three parts do not mean three projects for the teacher to assemble and coordinate. The school receives a prepared sequence, one shared contact and support from the first seminar to the competition project.
Teachers can observe students in different roles and see cooperative work, discussion, guided reflection and ongoing feedback in practice. The programme fits project learning, social sciences, career guidance and vocational subjects.
One path
Three separate products arrive at school as one connected programme. The partners coordinate organisation, continuity and handovers.
Methodology beyond the workshop
Teachers encounter tools such as Ikigai, problem validation and brainwriting, and receive materials and methodological support from JA Czech.
Better-prepared teams
Students enter JA Pilot with better-validated problems, teamwork experience and stronger projects instead of starting again from zero.
Who is behind the programme
Three organisations, one path
Each partner contributes a different element—authentic entrepreneurial stories, experiential education and a proven environment for developing student projects.
Personal experience sparks interest, experiential education turns it into skills and the competition gives students a reason to complete work they can present to others.
Můžeš podnikat brings real entrepreneurs into schools to share their journeys, successes and mistakes and lets students ask unfiltered questions.
Adaptivio designs practical learning experiences in which people discover strengths, test assumptions and create value for others.
JA Czech provides proven entrepreneurship programmes and a competition environment in which students develop projects and meet experts from practice.
Organisation and funding
Clear terms from the beginning
The school enters all three parts as one programme, although each has its own funding model. Before ordering, you know what is free, what is charged per student and what the price includes.
A free seminar
Můžeš podnikat provides the seminar with two entrepreneurs to the school free of charge.
Entrepreneurship Day
CZK 550 per student for groups of 30 or more, or CZK 650 per student for groups of 25–29. The price includes a seven-hour programme led by an experienced educator and entrepreneur, plus materials for students and the accompanying teacher.
JA Pilot
The competition is free for first-time schools. JA Czech will confirm terms and pricing for repeat participation.
Now it is your students’ turn