With so much Bosnia & Herzegovina talent scattered all over the world and all over Bosnia & Herzegovina, sharing knowledge and building capacity is the duty of each and every one of us. Knowledge transfer can occur in so many different ways and BH Futures Foundation facilitates all of them. We view Bosnia & Herzegovina’s diaspora and citizens as one body and thus our collective knowledge and knowhow is enormous. Whether you are a university professor, industry expert, university student or business owner, you can make a significant contribution by deciding to engage with students in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The next time you travel there, while enjoying sightseeing and family visits, consider sharing some knowledge with the super-talented youth. Below you can see the many different ways you can engage with students in Bosnia & Herzegovina, industry and the general public. If you live in Bosnia & Herzegovina, you are always welcome to contribute wherever you feel most comfortable. Let us put knowledge first!

If you live in the diaspora then you are like the rest of us and visit Bosnia & Herzegovina. Some of us visit once a year, some of us several times a year and some only once in a while. Regardless of how often you visit, the next time you do, we would like to host you.

The next time you travel to Bosnia & Herzegovina, fill out our form and let us know when you will be there, where you plan to be and how much time you could set aside to engage with our students.

Breakfast and chat is a signature event of the Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation that typically lasts for 90-120 minutes. As the title indicates, a light breakfast is served early in the morning at a location that is suitable to you and our students. It is an informal setting that allows you to get to know our students and vice-versa. You can choose to give a presentation or just hang out to talk about your career, projects, advice you may have for them.

We hold our annual congress in the last weekend of November every year. The congress is organised by BH Futures Foundation in conjunction with IEEE (www.ieee.org), the world’s largest technical professional organisation. The congress is a gathering point for students & young professionals studying technical sciences in Bosnia & Herzegovina with invited domestic/international experts and diaspora. It designed to empower young people with knew knowledge on technical topics, enterprise skills as well as entrepreneurship and leadership. Most importantly the congress is a great venue to connect young people all over BH with our successful diaspora. You can check out the 2019 conference website here.

in 2020 we will be hosting the conference in Tuzla (27-29 Nov).

Futures academies are BH Futures Foundation accelerated learning weekends for the foundation scholars. Students come from all over the country and we always invite up to 10 guest students from the town/city we host the event in. The academy is held 3 times a year (typically in Feb/March, June/July and Nov/Dev time frames). The academies are rotated through different cities/towns in Bosnia & Herzegovina to reach new audiences and better engage our scholars with different communities in the homeland.

To date we have run academies in Banja Luka, Tuzla, Mostar, Srebrenica, Sarajevo and Zenica.

A vast majority of primary/elementary and high schools are very poorly technologically equipped. This is particularly true of schools outside of the major cities. Rural schools are suffering the most where in some cases children are learning about Microsoft word and excel by drawing interfaces rather than using computers! Furthermore, very few schools have the ability to send their students to bigger towns to get access to technology they need in today’s modern learning environments.

These are all major reasons why BH Futures Foundation established the “Schools outreach program” - We travel all over Bosnia & Herzegovina, visiting event the most remote schools. Our scholars volunteer to give presentations, run workshops and provide mentorship to their younger peers. You can also join us on one of our trips. Perhaps you want to visit the school in the town you are from.