Practice Enterprise Trade Fair 2025

Jonk Entrepreneuren Luxembourg © Mandy Melone

On Tuesday, 9 December 2025, more than 300 students gathered to participate in the ‘Luxembourg Practice Enterprise Trade Fair 2025’, organised by the non-profit organisation Jonk Entrepreneuren Luxembourg. A total of 23 companies were present at the Geesseknäppchen Forum, including 20 national companies from 13 secondary schools in Luxembourg and three international companies from Belgium.

The concept of the Practice Enterprise (PE) has been around since the 1950s and is implemented in many countries across various sectors (school, vocational training, professional reintegration, etc.). In Luxembourg, the concept was introduced into the school curriculum as a compulsory subject in 2006. Since then, Practice Enterprises has been a subject taught in general secondary education – vocational training programme – administrative and commercial division.

Understanding how a business works through a mock trade fair

Practice Enterprises are fictitious companies integrated into a global network that constitutes a real parallel market, enabling them to engage in commercial activities with each other in a way that closely simulates the real market.

The aim of the practice Enterprise is to put into practice the theoretical knowledge acquired in other courses and to gain an overview of how a company operates. This promotes interaction between different departments and with external bodies. It is therefore through commercial practice that the practice enterprise aims to prepare young people for the world of work in the best possible way.

The Luxembourg Practice Enterprise Trade Fair is held once a year and allows PEs to meet and form business alliances. A competition is also held, with the following many prizes up for grabs: ‘Best Brochure & Catalogue’, ‘Best Stand’, ‘Best Customer Service and Business Practices’, ‘Best Presentation’ and finally ‘Best Training Firm at the 2025 Fair’, as well as two optional prizes, namely the ‘Innovation Prize’ and the ‘Sustainable Development Prize’.

The jury

The jury, composed of six members – three representing the world of education and three representing the business world – evaluated the PEs in order to select the winners. For this edition of the Fair, Jonk Entrepreneuren benefited from the expertise of the following jury members:

Adeline Massolin – Chambre des Métiers
Joan Weber – Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse
Jean-Luc Bermes –Spuerkeess
Gioia de Cillia – SDK Akademie
Gio-Kenichi Breden – Enseignant
Tom Emeringer – Enseignant

The Winners

The award for Best PE at the 2025 Fair went to ‘VISIONERA’ from the Lycée Technique de Lallange.
The awards for Best Customer Service and Business Practices and Sustainable Development went to ‘TOCALUX’ from the Lycée Technique du Centre.
The award for Best Stand went to ‘MAPA’ from the Lycée Technique du Centre.
The award for Best Presentation went to ‘GLOCALBITES’ from the Lycée du Nord.
The award for Best Portfolio & Catalogue went to ‘INTERIA’ from the École Privée Marie-Consolatrice.
The Innovation Award went to ‘WE ARE ONE’ from the Lycée Techique de Lallange.
In addition, an independent jury selected and rewarded the five best salespeople at the fair from among the participating students using the ‘Mystery Shopping’ method.

The complete photo gallery can be viewed here.