Last week, our scholars Milan Kusmuk, Nevena Kisin, Haris Arnautovic, Ali Mokayes, Selma Aličić and Momčilo Amović led by the Foundation founder Eddie Custovic, visited Sweden. They had a unique opportunity to visit Götheborg and Stockholm and enjoy multiple opportunities to present their and Foundation’s work, attend networking events, presentations and visit some great companies such as Google, Spotify, MatchAds, Sigrid Therapeutics, and Softhouse Consulting, who is our partner and the main organizer of all visits. Here is how our scholars described the experience:

Milan Kusmuk said the following:

“Google, Spotify, MatchAds, Sigrid Therapeutics, and Softhouse are companies I visited in the last 7 days. Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation together with Softhouse Consulting has organized all those visits for BHFF scholars. I also got a chance to meet Bosnian diaspora members at Softhouse & BHFF networking event in Stockholm. Another Networking event was held in Gothenburg. My main conclusion from a few events in the last two months is that the Bosnian community is achieving great results across the world. We, at the Foundation, are working on bringing this knowledge back to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Thank you all for participating, in Softhouse for hosting us and to Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation for providing me the opportunity to attend all these events. Special thanks to Himzo Musić and Eddie (Edhem) Custovic for the last 7 days!”.

Milan with other Futures scholars and Google employees

Here is what another scholar, Ali said:

A week behind, over 4000 kilometers covered, new friendships forged, and old ones further reinforced. Together with my friends and colleagues from the BH Futures Foundation, we had a chance to attend events, network, meet dozens of engineers, entrepreneurs, and professionals; who're involved in politics, law, economics, medicine... On top of that we got to visit and/or learn more about the following companies: - Softhouse Consulting - Google - Spotify - Sigrid Therapeutics AB - Sweden Foodtech - MatchAds Oh, and a lot of the above-mentioned professionals are originally from Bosnia & Herzegovina and that is the most awesome fact and takeaway from this trip and I am really glad and honored to have had this opportunity. Once again thanks to Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation for a chance to be part of this, and thanks to Softhouse for hosting us in Sweden!”.

Finally, there is also short notice from Momčilo who said:

“My colleagues and I had an extremely unique opportunity to listen presentation of Google in Sweden capital city, Stockholm at Softhouse Consulting office. We were discussing cloud computing and the future of applications. I want to thank our Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation for providing us this opportunity!”.

There is no doubt that it was a great experience to find out more about the technology in Sweden. Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation is proud to organize such an opportunity for their scholars to learn something new and have a chance to transfer the knowledge back to our country.

BH Futures Around the World: Sweden