Junior Achievement is VdA's partner under its Pro Bono program
The Portuguese team has won the Junior Achievement Competition which took place during the Europe Trade Fair 2013, in Riga, Latvia. Junior Achievement not-for-profit association is VdA's partner under the scope of the firm's Pro Bono and CSR program and aims to foster youth entrepreneurship. The team from Portugal was the great winner of the 'Best Overall Company Award', which corresponded to the first prize, among 46 teams and 250 students coming from all of Europe and also Botswana, having still further won the 'Enterprise Without Borders Collaboration Award' (EwB). BIG BANG Enterprise is the name of the team which is composed of students from Colégio Luso-Internacional de Braga school, and was led by their teacher, Amanda Chofi. This is the second time Portugal wins the EwB prize at the Trade Fair.