Youth Employment Forum Co-Chairs and Keynote Speaker in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
The Youth Employment Forum in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina focuses on untapped opportunities, success stories, promoting entrepreneurship, self-employment, and enhancing business performance. The event addresses significant success stories, potential for growth, replication, and imitation, along with practical measures to tap into these opportunities. It also delves into promoting entrepreneurship, reducing start-up failure rates, and enhancing existing business performance for efficiency and competitiveness.
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Youth Employment Forum Youth Employment Forum Co-Chairs: Zbigniew Bochniarz Anto Domazet Keynote Speaker: Ziga Vavpotic Sarajevo, Bosnia i Herzegovina, July 1, 2014
Introduction Introduction 1. Untapped 1. Untapped Opportunities & Success Opportunities & Success Stories: Almir Almir Jazvin Jazvin, , Vesna Vesna Milosevic Stories: Zupancic Milosevic Zupancic 2 2. . Promoting Promoting Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship and Self employment: employment: Nermin Nermin Kadric Self- - Kadric 3. 3. Enhancing Performance Enhancing Performance of Businesses: Businesses: Edin of Existing Existing Saracevic Edin Saracevic 4. Conclusions for the 4. Conclusions for the BiH BiH Youth Youth .
1. Untapped Opportunities & Success Stories 1. Untapped Opportunities & Success Stories What are the most significant success stories in the past decade that have potential for further growth, replication or imitation? What success stories have been achieved in other countries that can be extended, replicated or imitated in BiH? Which sectors, industries and businesses in BiH have the largest potential for growth? What domestic and international markets offer the greatest potential for growth? What practical measures can be introduced to tap these opportunities? Which countries or regions offer viable models that can be replicated in BiH? What obstacles retard development of these opportunities? .
2 2. . Promoting Promoting Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship and Self employment employment Self- - entrepreneurship and self-employment? What steps can be taken to promote be facilitated and accelerated? How can the start-up of new businesses start-ups be reduced? How can the failure rate of new business .
3 3. . Enhancing Performance Enhancing Performance of Businesses Businesses of Existing Existing more efficient and competitive? more efficient and competitive? How How can existing enterprises become can existing enterprises become be improved to raise crop yields & quality? be improved to raise crop yields & quality? How can agricultural extension services How can agricultural extension services facilitate the functioning of businesses? facilitate the functioning of businesses? How can transparency be increased to How can transparency be increased to innovations can be introduced to improve the innovations can be introduced to improve the functioning of the business and the economy? functioning of the business and the economy? What systems or organizational What systems or organizational .
4. Conclusions & Recommendation for 4. Conclusions & Recommendation for Education and Training Education and Training a. Create opportunities for student jobs during their a. Create opportunities for student jobs during their education period in order to get them early contacts education period in order to get them early contacts with the labor market and to acquire first working with the labor market and to acquire first working experience. experience. b. Develop soft skills (along with b. Develop soft skills (along with technical/professional ones) that proved to be critical technical/professional ones) that proved to be critical for employability. for employability. c. Record and recognize the student working c. Record and recognize the student working experience, as it has happened in the ILO experience, as it has happened in the ILO- -awarded practice practice Moje Moje iskusnje iskusnje/My experience /My experience in Slovenia. awarded in Slovenia. . d. Treat the student job as a stepping stone for a d. Treat the student job as a stepping stone for a regular job and professional career. regular job and professional career.
4. Conclusions & Recommendation for 4. Conclusions & Recommendation for Education and Training (cont.) Education and Training (cont.) a. Revise time allocated for Knowledge, Skills and a. Revise time allocated for Knowledge, Skills and Attitude Building in favor of the last two. Attitude Building in favor of the last two. b. Introduce to curricula more soft b. Introduce to curricula more soft- -skills courses. skills courses. c c. Collaborate closely with organizations from . Collaborate closely with organizations from business, public or NGO sectors to get students business, public or NGO sectors to get students involved in team work and solving real world involved in team work and solving real world problems. problems. d d. Take advantage of alumni associations to learn . Take advantage of alumni associations to learn about needed knowledge and skills in their about needed knowledge and skills in their industries. industries. . e. Introduce incentives for faculty to focus on more e. Introduce incentives for faculty to focus on more practical problem solving for diploma works. practical problem solving for diploma works.
