Tittle? Well, we did not lost count, we are just proud of dozens of success stories that our newest mentorship program produced. The program is almost over, and we have a few more success stories to tell. This time we bring a fantastic story of Ismet Sokoljanin in a role of a mentor and Marina Milanovski, young and talented girl who is just about to start her studies. Here is how, both of them, experienced this unique opportunity.
Read MoreStatistical and bureaucratic differences aside, what differentiates angel investment the most from other forms is its non-monetary aspect. Angel investors typically invest a lot of their time, counseling and contacts. They are more of a caretaker than a typical investor, your startup’s nanny helping you raise your little, fragile baby.
Read MoreThis article is the second one in a series of articles in which I am deconstructing a recent course I worked on with Bosnia and Herzegovina Futures Foundation. 'Leaders of Online Learning' is now live, upskilling educators across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro. In this article, I will demonstrate how I used research from neuroscience to optimize this learning experience for our learners.
Read MoreAs part of the mentoring program "Making markets work for the new generation in B&H", which we launched together with the Market Makers initiative, young people were given the opportunity for additional education in areas such as, artificial intelligence, databases, programming and others. Several participants decided to learn graphic design as well.
Read MoreIn a nutshell, design thinking is a human- centered, iterative process that companies use to solve problems and develop products and services. It puts the end user at the center of attention and is very much data-driven. There are five stages in the design thinking process: empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing.
Read MoreWe are Azra and Maid, two high school students who, at first glance, do not have much in common. However, we are both finishing our schools this year, and we are both interested in IT. We are both creative and musical and finally, what brought us together is the BH Futures Foundation Mentorship Program. Namely, due to similar characteristics and similar desires for the further course of our lives, we were matched with the same mentor - Nihad Ferhatović.
Read MoreSince universities and schools suddenly had to face the challenge of online education, we decided to jump in and give them additional support for overcoming all obstacles. In the spirit of giving back and helping, the Foundation successfully activated and used all of its resources to assist teachers, students, and parents in Bosnia & Herzegovina with online distance learning.
Read MoreIn January this year, BH Futures Foundation launched a unique mentoring program in cooperation with MarketMakers and gave rise to a significant number of mentorship pairs who have created many positive and beautiful stories through their activities, work, and success. One such story comes from Tuzla Canton, where we witness the great success of two young and ambitious people.
Read MoreIt is nothing new if we say that our scholars are extraordinary students with both academic excellence and rich industry experience as well as experience of being speakers on conferences, podcasts, TV talk shows, or similar events. This time we want to tell you more about our scholar Emin Hajdarević who is a last-year student at Faculty of Information Technologies in Mostar.
Read MoreWe have such intelligent and ambitious people all over the globe and we are proud of their success. One of them is definitely Dr. Admir Greljo, and it is fair to say that he is currently considered by many as one of the most intelligent people from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Read MoreContent & Communication Specialist from Mistral, Mustafa Šuvalija, is a mentor in our new Mentorship Program where he works with his mentee Meliha Dejkić to develop her engineering and soft skills so she could pursue her career in IT. In the following few paragraphs, you will be able to read the mentorship experience written by Meliha:
Read MoreWe had the best Monday evening you can imagine – we organized online panel discussion with our experts in the field of macro and microeconomics Admir Čavalić, Faruk Hadžić and Damir Bećirović who explained how COVID – 19 can be a chance for Bosnia and Herzegovina to grow. It’s very important to understand all the factors that will affect our economy in the next period and to emphasize the ones we can use to help our economy and businesses.
Read MoreIt has been 4 months since our new mentorship program began, and it has already delivered some beautiful and positive stories. We bring one such story below, whose actors are a member of our Foundation, Majda Mujanovic Babovic, in the role of a mentor, and a young telecommunications student, Lejla, who has applied to this program intending to improve and direct her potentials and capacities.
Read MoreDuring our new Mentorship program, organised in cooperation with MarketMakers, we had an opportunity to meet talented young leaders who are making an impact in our society with their great work. One of them is Nejra Mesić, a mentee in our Mentorship program. Besides hard work she is doing as a part of her mentorship process, Nejra won a prize for her idea to support women in their business during the virus COVID-19 organised by BOLD.BA - B&H Young Leaders organisation.
Read MoreOur partners and friends from Radio Kameleon have recently launched a “Big Bang Challenge” – the project that aims to recognize new heroes, leaders, role models, change-makers, inspirational stars, and successful individuals among youth in Tuzla Canton.
Read MoreFondacija nudi besplatne konsultacije o digitalnim alatima za online edukaciju za sve nastavnike, kao i stotine sati besplatnog online STEM podučavanja namijenjenih učenicima osnovnih i srednjih škola.
Read MoreAdopting new skills and knowledge, connecting with our friends and colleagues is always a good idea. So, we spent the last weekend in Zenica talking about our work, good habits, and practices such as leadership, time management, and teamwork.
Read MoreWhat a great experience! On Monday I had an opportunity to represent BH Futures Foundation at networking event in Cologne, together with our ambassador Adela Kadiric. As this was my first event of this kind, I was very excited, but also nervous at the same time. However, what I didn't know was that the Foundation had prepared me for this much better than I thought.
Read MoreEvery day of moving around Vienna was kind of a puzzle for us, something like a team-building exercise, where everyone instinctively took some role. Some of us have never been to a metropolis of this magnitude before, never traveled by subway, never drove in such complex traffic and never experienced many other things. We managed to cope with the complicated traffic with the help of navigation on two smartphones. We managed to reach our destinations and that was exciting every single time. We are convinced that, in addition to all of the educational content that was organised for us, in these moments we learned a lot as well.
Read MoreAnother great event is behind us, the energy we get with networking from our diaspora is something special. On Wednesday, more than 150 successful Bosnians from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and B&H gathered in Vienna for a business networking forum for professionals, entrepreneurs, company representatives and students.
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