Our scholar Ivana Čulić was given the opportunity to visit The world No. 1 trade fair for plastics and rubber in Dusseldorf, K2019. The fair is held every 3 years, and that is why all the biggest companies are preparing their innovations and products for it. This year's motto was: Plastics shape future and hot topics were Circular economy, Plastics industry 4.0 and Renewable energy. 

Has anyone ever asked you about your goals, plans and wishes you want to fulfil before you become 88 years old? Well, the answer is most possibly ‘No!’. However, it was one of the first questions for our 13 scholars who attended the Breakfast and Meeting with Mr. Sejo Jahić on last Friday morning.

Hello, my name is Almedin Beganović and I am the first-year student of Information Technology at International Burch University in Sarajevo. During the last month my team and I traveled over 1500km all around BIH to educate youth about 3D printing and 3D modeling, but also to teach them to apply gained knowledge on solving problems.  Workshops were held in 5 cities, with 5 hosts and partners.

Germany has the largest BiH diaspora and we welcomed a large group of diverse, open and authentic professionals on this rainy Sunday afternoon in Restaurant Sarajevo traveling from Cologne, Dortmund, Nijmegen (Holland) and other key cities. Our friends from the Pangea-Netwerk made time to join to further collaborate and build synergies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.