Our Achievements in 2022

2022, thank you!

The year 2022 has been our best year so far! 

We hosted many great events, met new amazing people, and got closer to the ones we already know. A huge thank you to everyone who participated and helped us create an even bigger and better environment for all of us. They say “Teamwork makes the dream work”, and they were right. 

Let’s see all the amazing things we achieved in 2022!

  • We held our second Vera Šnajder Awards as a part of the Futures Leaders Summit ‘22 and declared 2 winners. They were selected by a 13-member jury consisting of academics and professionals of BiH origin from around the world.

  • Futures Leaders Summit ‘22 was a huge success and we had in total:

    • 6 company visits

    • 34 professional speakers

    • 13 workshops

    • 1-panel discussion

    • 2 Fireside chats

    • Hundreds of participants

  • In the third year of the 3 Minute Thesis competition (3MT) 2022, we distributed over 20,000 BAM in prizes to help accelerate winners’ research careers.

  • Innovation Nation’s 2022 final award ceremony gave us amazing 3 top teams from ‘22 cycle. It had 16 mentors and a total of 50,000 BAM in cash prizes were awarded to the best teams, as well as over 80,000 BAM of in-kind contributions.

We aren’t done yet!

  • We have 150 active mentors in our system that are actively helping and collaborating with our scholars.

  • We welcomed 73 Scholars in total, from which 46 are Junior Scholars and 27 Ignite program members.

  • We organized and co-organized 5 BH Professionals Meetups in New York, Berlin, Melbourne, Vienna and Aarau.

  • We entered 2023 with 2 new full-time employees.

  • We organized 3 Futures Academies in Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Zenica.

  • Over 100 high-school students participated in our tutoring program with 79 tutors.

  • We received “The plaque of the city of Tuzla” the extraordinary philanthropic award.

  • Gathered 150 engineering students at Futures Automotive Conference in Sarajevo, organized with Burch University.

  • We organized 7 webinars.

  • Mobility opportunities were great this year, we had:

    • 8 international opportunities in 6 different countries for 36 of our scholars

    • 3 domestic opportunities for 15 of our scholars

  • We had 10 wonderful Passion Projects teams.

Wow, that’s a lot of achievements in just one year. But we’re not done.

  • We got to establish financial support for our students.

  • Established a Virtual School of Research Communications to help our researchers with communication skills.

  • Established a transformational paid educational program for high school teachers named the Teacher Residency program.

  • Our Mobile Makerspace had 10 workshops in 3D Printing, Arduino, Python, and Web development with over 200 high school and elementary school participants.

  • We had not 1 but 3 dual scholarships for our scholars with our amazing partners Lanaco, Mistral and Ministry of Programming.

  • Special thanks to our hundreds of donors who help us achieve all of this!

For a full report, we encourage you to check out our 2022 Annual Report which contains the financial report as well.

Thank you to everyone that is following and supporting us, you are a part of these achievements just as we are. We can’t wait to show you what we planned for 2023!

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