EN / RO

A free entrepreneurship program for high school students /

Young Entrepreneur Generation

6 months · Saturdays 10–12 Bucharest Tower Center No idea or experience needed. Starts 7 November Apply by 20 October

Apply now

Our partners / Become one →

  • Banca Transilvania
  • City Grill
  • EY
  • Romanian Business Leaders
About YEnG

One Program.
A Lifetime Mindset.

What YEnG is

YEnG is a free entrepreneurship program for high school students in Romania, built around practical learning. Work on real ideas, learn from entrepreneurs and build with a team.

Cost
Free
Experience
No business experience needed
Idea
Not needed, you can join without one
Dates
Starts 7 November · apply by 20 October
How
Real ideas, built with a team
Apply now 
YEnG manifesto
From the film · YEnG’s Believers
“Business starts young. I started at 7. Nowadays you need a head start and YEnG offers just that, for FREE!”
Oliver Lepadatu, Founder of YEnG
When & where

When and where

How long?
6 monthsA practical entrepreneurship program.
When?
Saturdays10:00–12:00Weekly sessions, starting 7 November.
Where?
Bucharest Tower CenterWhere the weekly sessions take place.
Who it’s for · Impact · Selection

Who we’re looking for.

You don’t need a startup, a business plan or a polished pitch. We look at how you think and how you work with others.

You?
Tick what sounds like youApply 
Impact · editions 1 and 2
400
300
200
100
350+Applicants
160Selected
≈147Graduated · 92%

350+ applicants, 160 selected through interviews, 92% graduation rate (about 147 of 160). 22+ high schools, 20+ business ideas. Totals for both editions, from YEnG’s own records.

Five steps to YEnG
Move sideways over the steps · click Application to walk all fiveTap a number, or “Walk all five” to see every step
The program

From “I have an idea”
to “I know how to build it.”

Admit one · Edition 3YEnG

Season pass

  • Trainers & business mentors
  • Entrepreneurial curriculum
  • Special guests
  • Online & offline networking
  • Competitions
Starts
7 Nov
When
Sat 10–12
Price
Free
TimetableThe curriculum

Four modules

  1. 01Design ThinkingProblem

    Talk to the people who have the problem.

  2. 02LeadershipTeam

    Share the work, decide as a team.

  3. 03Business Model CanvasModel

    Map who it serves and how it works.

  4. 04PitchingStage

    Present it and answer questions.

People

The people behind YEnG.

Founder
Oliver Lepadatu

Oliver Lepadatu

Oliver started his first venture at seven, building Lemon Coolers through KEN Academy. Years later, while in high school, experiences at Babson and Columbia exposed him to a much more practical way of learning entrepreneurship. Seeing how limited that kind of access was for Romanian students, he created YEnG, a free program built to help high school students learn entrepreneurship by actually doing it.

Project Manager
Carmen Iorgulescu

Carmen Iorgulescu

Carmen brings years of experience in entrepreneurship education through KEN Academy, where she has worked closely with kids, developing their first ideas and projects. She now supports YEnG as Project Manager, helping turn the program’s vision into a stronger, more structured experience for every new generation of participants.

Students also learn from the founders, mentors and leaders who back the program. Meet the Believers →

Have an idea?Start here.

No idea yet? Apply anyway. You’ll work on real ideas with your team.