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06. 03. 2017

New Swiss Cooperation Strategy in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017 - 2020

The Swiss Cooperation Strategy Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017-2020 is the expression of Switzerland’s renewed commitment to continue its longstanding partnership with Bosnia and Herzegovina with the overall goal to provide more and better economic, social and political opportunities and perspectives to the people of BiH.
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21. 02. 2017

Where do I belong? – Films about identity, sense of belonging and choice

Andrea Štaka, a director from Zurich, whose family comes from the former Yugoslavia, has already won the greatest prizes at international festivals with her first feature film ''Das Fräulein'': the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and the Golden Heart at the Sarajevo Film Festival (2006).
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20. 02. 2017

First meeting of the expert group for economic development of BiH held in Bern

The first meeting of the expert group focussing on the economic development of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held on Saturday, 18th February 2017 in Bern. More than 30 entrepreneurs as well as interested individuals of the BiH diaspora in Switzerland attended the meeting.
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16. 02. 2017

Economic Forum of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017 in Sarajevo

The first Economic Forum of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in Sarajevo, on 9th February 2017. This was the first in a series of events to mark 65 years of existence of the Economic Faculty of the University of Sarajevo (EFSA). Representatives of i-dijaspora also attended the Forum.
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06. 02. 2017

Representatives of the Bern University of Applied Sciences visited the SCU in Travnik

On Thursday, 2nd February 2017, representatives of the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) visited the Centre for lifelong learning SCU in Travnik. The main aim of the meeting was to exchange information, create synergies and discuss the establishment of a cooperation.
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09. 01. 2017

Possibilities for direct democracy in BiH – similarities and differences in comparison to Switzerland

Nenad Stojanović, a 40-year-old political scientist, researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Lucerne, already has an impressive scientific career in Switzerland, which also includes research projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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09. 12. 2016

Forum of the BiH Diaspora held in Switzerland

The Forum of the BiH Diaspora in Switzerland with more than 80 participants was held in Bern on Saturday, 26th November 2016. It was attended by members of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian diaspora from different regions in CH and BiH, including also a significant number of second generation members.
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01. 12. 2016

Global peer exchange meetup with startups from the Balkans

The Entrepreneurship Program* aims at strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem in six countries (Albania, BiH, Macedonia, Serbia, Peru and Vietnam). The program works with relevant startup support organisations and provides strategic support to improve their business models and acceleration programs.
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30. 11. 2016

Reactivate Sarajevo – urban and social transformations

Haris Piplaš is a researcher and lecturer at Urban-Think Tank, the Chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, where he teaches Urban Design I/II and coordinates the project Reactivate Sarajevo.
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28. 11. 2016

BalkanEkspress as a Bridge between the Balkan and Swiss Culture

Adi Elezović and Almir Elezović are the founders of the association BalkanEkspress, which presents the Balkan culture in Switzerland in a completely new way. Thanks to BalkanEkspress, young people from the former Yugoslavia got a place where they could be both persons from the Balkans and Swiss in a cool way!
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