Dzenita and Mersiha made history together!
During EU Code Week, the IT Girls initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized the largest and first-ever female hackathon with over 80 participants, split into 18 teams. The project was supported by the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina, UN Women, UNDP, UNICEF, and the event was held at HUB387. The fact we are proud of is that our two scholars not only participated in the hackathon but have shown outstanding performance. Dženita Đulović was the part of the winning team and Mersiha Ćeranić was their mentor on the competition.
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Design workshop in Srebrenica Futures Makerspace
On the 12th of October, the second module “Design” was officially introduced to the participants by our member Vildana Hrnjić. As our main Graphic Designer, she introduced students to the basics of Adobe Illustrator.
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We have talent! Silicon Valley - Bosnia and Herzegovina Meetup
Successful Bosnians & Herzegovinians live all over the world. Some of the most successful reside in Silicon Valley, the innovation hub of the world. BH Futures Foundation organised a meetup event in San Jose, California to bring together professionals who draw their roots from Bosnia & Herzegovina. Some of them may be familiar to us through community activities while others are going about their careers without much interaction. Check out what we got up to.
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BH Futures Visited Perth
Earlier this week our Foundation Founder Eddie Custovic and Board Member Damir Mitric visited Perth in Western Australia. They were invited by the Bosnia Youth Network of Perth to attend the screening of the documentary film Return to Bosnia which was followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
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BH Futures Outreach Program is on!
High school "Gimnazija 'dr. Mustafa Kamarić'" in Gračanica, hosted the first Outreach Programme Arduino Workshop on Saturday, October 12th, which was organized by our scholars Denis Muratović and Haris Hadžić. They both had the honor to be the lecturers at this workshop and based on the feedback from the students of the workshop - they did a great job! The workshop has been a great start for a big project of our Foundation and its Outreach Team and it is going to provide experience and knowledge to students in a way they, unfortunately, cannot get in their formal education.
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The Making of Future Leaders: Adna Čosić
Our young leaders are already well known as persons who use each second of their time and every possible chance to inspire the youngsters. One of them is our scholar and volunteer Adna Čosić. Adna is a Mechanical engineering student at the University of Zenica which has a traditional ceremony for welcoming new students at the beginning of each academic year.
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Banja Luka Breakfast + Chat with Danish AI Leader Erik David Johnson
How far are we from from completely autonomous vehicles? What is the future of artificial intelligence ? What is the biggest challenge we face regarding AI?
On Monday morning scholars from Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation and LANACO had the pleasure of joining Erik David Johnson for our now traditional “Breakfast & Chat”. Erik is in Banja Luka to present on emerging trends in AI at the TechHosted Conference and with pleasure took up our offer to have breakfast and meet our amazing youth.
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We are looking for a Mentoring Program Project Manager
If you are motivated, proactive, energetic, enthusiastic, enjoy personal growth and development, and able to work in complex environments, we want to encourage you to apply for a Mentoring Program Project Manager position.
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BH Futures Around the World: Sweden
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.
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First time ever: Congress of Geneticists in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Last week, a historic first Congress of geneticists in Bosnia and Herzegovina was organised, drawing in experts from various fields of biology from all across the globe. We are immensely proud to be partners and sponsors of this historical event. A warm welcome in the Holiday Inn Hotel from the Congress organisers welcomed guests and the spirit of science was palpable in every corner of the lightly lit conference hall.
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New Partner: MarketMakers
Common goal of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Futures Foundation and MarketMakers project is to implement mentors program which will include five different cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mentors program is made to demystify IT/STEM industry, to motivate young persons to develop their own skills and also to connect them with potential employers.
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Futures Expedition: Czech Republic, Advanced Food Production & Meetup
As the global population grows, food demand continues to rise. Robotics and artificial intelligence inevitably have to take part in land cultivation to allow farmers to be more efficient and productive when managing crops. Our scholars Emina, Milan, and Momcilo together with Eddie Custovic, chair of our Foundation witnessed the design & manufacture process of these systems at Photon Systems Instruments in Brno, Czech Republic.
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Memorandum Signing with the Mozaik Foundation
Rather than just sign a piece of paper, both foundations have already started collaborating. Together with IEEE, they are delivering the largest innovation competition in the country. Over 40 teams have applied for the IEEE innovation Nation competition from all major cities in the country.
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Othmane's Diaries: Time to Say Goodbye
In order for me to be closer to Vildana and some other BH Futures Foundation members, and work together on the last preparation phase of the Futures Makerspace, I went back to spend my last two Bosnian weeks in Banja Luka, where I was comfortably hosted by a Foundation scholar, Damir Bajramović and his friendly flatmate Andrej Bucalo.
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Mugdim Đuliman - Super Scholar organizing clean up actions
We are happy to announce that Mugdim Đuliman, one of our students who joined the Foundation in April this year, is an active member of Let’s do it BiH where contributes a lot to organization and coordination of clean-up actions. He has already participated in one such action recently and below is his great experience.
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The best local QA event in Europe?!
On 19th September, Sarajevo QA Crew made another outstanding event! With the great support from the Mistral company and EuroSTAR Conference, the biggest software testing conference in Europe, their QA meetup brought together almost 100 QA enthusiasts in Mistral company. The guests showed a huge interest in the meetup. After posting the event on social media, all places had been reserved in only three hours.
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Nikolina Bulovic: Engineer? Journalist? Both!
From an early age, I showed interest in technology and disassembled things like watches to find out how they work. In my spare time, I loved to read books, so I got interested in how books were made. This is how I got into graphics technologies. I was always creative and an art lover, most of all interested in photography, so this faculty is a mix of things that I love.
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Let's Talk About Diaspora - Ali Mokayes in Munich
This past weekend, Coordinator of our mentorship program, Ali Mokayes, attended the event hosted by the B&H Consulate in Munich, and organized by Pangea, our Foundation, and Masterwerk on the topic of "Knowledge Transfer and How to Establish a Successful Mentoring Program".
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Hello Sydney: Screening of "Return to Bosnia"
On Tuesday 10th September, the Bosnia and Herzegovina community in Sydney had the opportunity to attend the screening of a documentary called ‘Return to Bosnia’; a documentary related to suffering, displacement and many other calamities caused by the Bosnian war in the 90s.
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Belma completed her master programme at Uppsala University
Do you remember Belma? She was one of the speakers at 3rd BH Futures Foundation's Academy in Tuzla in November 2018. She inspired with her story many of our students and guess what?! Our Belma graduated last week from Master Programme in Applied Biotechnology at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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