The BH Futures Foundation aims to help its scholars when difficult times arise. The last couple of years were also challenging for students. Overcoming obstacles from education to accommodation has dramatically impacted students’ day-to-day lives. Supporting the efforts of scholars is one of our main objectives. We are glad that they still have the motivation in these times to keep pushing forward and excelling in their paths of individual development.
Read MoreToday we will be introduced to one of our members of the Ignite Program - Meliha Džindo. Through this short video, Meliha talked about her impressions gained through working with the Foundation, motivation and plans for the future.
Read MoreThe BH Futures Foundation and Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences partnered up several years ago to promote educational and research opportunities in the academic community of Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. This year, our way of partnering and connecting researchers was the inaugural BH Researchers Meetup. The event was organised with the aim to bring together the BH research community - students, professors, and industry along with the 3 Minute Thesis competitors and the attendees of the 13th Annual Days of Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Read MoreOur scholars Selman Patković and Adnan Kubat, together with their team of students and staff from the Polytechnic Faculty of the University of Zenica, took a part in the 13th Days of the BHAAAS Conference. The team presented their project and used this opportunity to affirm, as well as to expand its network in scientific circles.
Read MoreEight scholars got an opportunity to travel to Austria's largest city and its national capital: Vienna where they visited the Technical University of Vienna, the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology, Bosch and participated in a BH professionals networking event.
Read MoreWe funded 19 scholars to attend largest European Software Developers Conference “We Are Developers”. Our scholars attended the conference and organised a meetup event with fellow Bosnia & Herzegovina professionals in Berlin.
Read MoreWith the announcement of the winners and the awarding of over 20,000 BAM in cash prizes at an online ceremony held on the 25th of June 2022, the third 3MT competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina has concluded. Discover all the winners and rankings here.
Read MoreThe Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation and the International Burch University gathered over 150 engineering students, as well as experts and automotive enthusiasts, at the Futures Automotive Conference held last month in Sarajevo. Some of the topics of the conference included careers in automotive industry as well as the challenges faced by the entire world and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Read MoreVote for your favourites! The 2022 three-minute thesis (3MT) competition challenges Bachelor/Masters/Ph.D. students to communicate the significance of their research projects to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes. Here you have the opportunity to listen to some of the most incredible young researchers who draw their roots from Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Read MoreThe BH Futures Foundation has always supported the endeavours of our scholars, and this time we are happy to see the entrepreneurial spirit among them.
Read MoreThis spring, BH Futures Foundation has partnered with LANACO to award two hardworking students with scholarships and support for their learning endeavours. This activity is the first one ever since the partnership had been established at the end of 2021.
Read MoreThe Tutoring Program organised by the BH Futures Foundation became a place of growth for many great things over the past two years. This autumn, we’d launched our fourth tutoring cycle for high school students across Bosnia & Herzegovina. The students have had the opportunity to have tutors in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, IT,
Electronics and Biology. We are happy to have welcomed more than 80 students and 40 tutors to share their knowledge and help students achieve their full potential. However, this time, the most active students were awarded with laptops with great support of our partner, CT Technologies.
From December 15th through December 17th, Bosnia and Herzegovina Futures Foundation organized the Futures Leaders Summit ‘21 - an event that will annually gather prospective changemakers in the field of STEM with the aim of creating a strong network that will change the way we perceive the industry and the future of our country's development.
We would like to sincerely thank our outgoing leadership team for the amazing work they undertook in the last few years and welcome the new members to our board who will serve the organisation from 2022 onwards.
Read More11 of our scholars received cutting edge industrial certified KUKA robotics training at the German Robotics Centre (DKR). The training was funded by Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation in partnership with the Foundation for Innovation, Technology and Transfer of Knowledge (FITT). Scholars learned about the mechanics, software, deployment of field solutions and the wider industry context of automation.
Read MoreFive of our scholars took part in the first Water Innovation Lab (WIL Danube+ 2021). During the first phase of the project participants were able to attend presentations from experts as well as to work in multidisciplinary groups on co-innovative solutions designs at a conceptual level.
Read MoreBH Futures Foundation is always very happy to support our scholars in their professional endeavors and ensure that they can learn and grow at world-class events, this time in Switzerland. Four scholars of our Foundation, Azra Hadžiemrić, Emela Devedžić, Saliha Mustafić, Maida Hodžić, together with Emina Malkić visited Zurich for two events: Swiss Robotics Day 2021 and a meet-up with members of the i-platform, a diaspora platform for the development of Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Read MoreWith the help of the Association of Computer Science Teachers & Professors of Tuzla Canton, Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation conducted an online workshop on web development for high school students of Tuzla Canton and for Futures Ignite Scholars from 11 to 29 October 2021. The workshop welcomed 92 participants, all keen to learn more about how the world web works and what it takes to create a website.
Read MoreSix of our scholars were given a special invitation to attended a half day industry and government panel discussion on ‘Transition to electric vehicles in B&H’ organized by Porsche BH in Sarajevo.
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From this year on, our Foundation organizes Futures Leaders Summit (FLS) which aspires to become BHFF’s annual event in the years that come. This year, FLS gathers 120 prospective STEM change-makers – both students and recent graduates – in Tuzla from 15th to 17th December and provides them with an opportunity to enhance their knowledge by learning from the global and local experts and to broaden their professional network - participants can meet fellow STEM colleagues, visit companies, share CVs with companies' management, and through networking even get their first working experience and internship.
