A real company, founded at school.
VeCrisps is a mini company in the Company Programme of Young Enterprise Switzerland. One school year, one product, real customers.
3,454,750. That is how many young people the network reaches every year.
YES is part of JA Europe. Its programmes reach students in around 40 countries, year after year.
In Switzerland the Company Programme began in 1999, with twelve mini companies.
Eight regions. One of them is ours.
From 23 January to 20 February 2027, mini companies pitch in eight regions of Switzerland. We compete in Bern.
- Basel
- Central Switzerland
- Bern
- Romandy
- Zurich
- Eastern Switzerland
- Ticino
- Northern Switzerland
What the Company Programme is
Students between 16 and 20 found a company, develop a product and bring it to market. For a whole school year. No simulation, no business game. Teachers come along as coaches. The decisions are ours.
Our school year
What lies behind us is settled. What lies ahead, we are writing right now.
- · Done
The chain is in place: beetroot and carrots from the farm in Iffwil, vacuum-fried and packed in Siselen. - · Done
The shop goes online, with beetroot crisps and carrot crisps. Anyone who wants can join the waiting list. - · Still open
Pitch competitions in eight regions of Switzerland. One of them is Bern. - · Still open
National trade fair in Shopville, Zurich main station. The 25 best mini companies exhibit there. That is where we want to be. - · Still open
The school year ends. What this page says by then is decided from today.
Be there from the start.
Join now and you will be the first to know when the first bags are ready.
Join the waiting list