With this weekend behind us, the 2024 Innovation Nation program has officially kicked-off. This year 37 participants from all over Bosnia & Herzegovina will participate in a 12 week intensive learning entrepreneurship program.

Participants will take part in a 12 week intensive learning program that includes weekly industry lectures, 3 hour workshops, several hours of online pre-recorded content, mentoring sessions and team based out of session work.

The aim of the first day was to present the goals and rules of the program to the participants, and through a Q&A session with the winners of the program in previous iterations, enable the new participants to better prepare for potential learning challenges (they received a lot of advice, suggestions and encouragement from previous IN program participants).

Q & A Panel with past Innovation Nation winners: Enis Habul, Bilal Hodžić, Faruk **Šehić**, Zerin Redžepović i Siniša Milošević

The keynote speaker during the kick-off was Amar Mahmutbegović (Head of Engineering in Semblie d.o.o. Tuzla), who described the development path of the company from a company based in a garage to one that designs and manufactures products for global clients.

Keynote speaker Amar Mahmutbegovic, Head of Engineering - Semblie

Innovation Nation Partners

Besides Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation, there are numerous organisations supporting the 2024 program are IEEE, ZenDev, MIT Legatum Centre, U.S. Department of State’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) and Mozaik Startup Studio.

Innovation Nation History

Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation has been organising Innovation Nation annually since December 2016. Since then, hundreds of young people in Bosnia & Herzegovina have gone through a comprehensive educational program focusing on entrepreneurship essentials. The program has since been supported and expanded through the IEEE (The world’s largest professional organisation) and is now run in numerous countries around the world including Sri Lanka.

37 young entrepreneurs kick of Innovation Nation 2024