Legacy

History

JCI Senate Survey

An exhaustive survey was conducted among JCI members and JCI Senators in Belgium. The results raport of this study is available in the French and Dutch language and can be accessed by clicking the document images bellow.

Below you can also find an infographic made on the study, in English.

Legacy

Leaving a legacy is about making a lasting positive impact through actions, character, and the memories you create in others, focusing on what you give rather than what you keep, with quotes highlighting that legacy is built daily through honesty, kindness, and serving something greater than yourself, becoming immortal through the lives you touch.

That's what JCI Active Members and especially JCI Senators have been doing and are doing every day again.

As it's been said: all good people must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to the next level.

History

As it 's said:

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S. Truman

Here you can find some more resources on the history of JCI & JCI Senate Belgium.

History of JCI Belgium & JCI Senate Belgium

With special thanks to JCI Senator Gerrit LOVINK, #18466 for researching, documenting and writing this ...

The first steps towards the origin of JCI Belgium were set on September 1st, 1936.

At that time a Junior Section was set up in the Brussels Chamber of Commerce & Industry, when young men and women decided to meet, and to establish a business network.

This original chapter was the first to be created on the European continent.

When young men and women from North –and Central America, decided to meet at the end of the 2nd World War, an organization was founded, where an international country as Belgium would participate as soon as possible.

JCI Belgium was affiliated at the 2nd World Congress held in Dallas TX (USA) in February 1947. Today JCI Belgium is the longest standing affiliated European member of JCI.

At the 3d World Congress held in Rio do Janeiro (Brazil) in 1948, Gilbert MABILLE was elected in the Board of Directors as “Executive Member”. He was involved to prepare for the 4th World Congress to be held in Brussels (Belgium) in April 1949, the first Congress outside of the Americas and the first one in Europe.

JCI members that are famous

The Architecture of Leadership

The influence of JCI is not merely a byproduct of social networking; it is the result of a deliberate pedagogical framework that emphasizes parliamentary procedure, public speaking, project management, and a commitment to free enterprise.

By examining the biographies of its most prominent alumni, one observes a recurring pattern: the skills acquired within the "Junior Chamber"—often in their late twenties or early thirties—provided the structural scaffolding for their later ascent to national and international prominence.