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INTERVIEW

(photo: Economy and business) Macedonian professionals to get training at the Shulich School
of Business and executive practice in a renowned Canadian
through our global network company. It is my honor to announce that starting from 2017
of members, we provide unique we will start a new program for executive directors which pro-
vides three-week training in the prestigious Kellogg School of
opportunities for study or Management, practice and mentorship. The cooperation with
employment / practice for the Kellogg is finalized, the conditions for participation in the pro-
Macedonian students. This year gram will be announced at the Summit.
two students from Macedonia
received full scholarships at This year for the ninth time we successfully realized the proj-
the Russian Presidential Academy, ect Leader intended for young professionals and entrepreneurs.
and we hope that next year there The lecturers from Richard Ivey School of Business from Cana-
would be an opportunity for more da held a two-week mini MVA workshop through real business
cases. About forty talented entrepreneurs participated and ex-
scholarships pressed great satisfaction of the program quality and its practi-
cal application. We are also working on the introduction of a
stitutions, and we hope for their quick new program for entrepreneurs with a renowned world insti-
implementation. Next year once again tute, whose realization would begin next year.
we shall organize such a forum and we
hope that there would be many new in- In addition, through our global network of members, we
vestors from the diaspora. provide unique opportunities for study or employment / prac-
tice for the Macedonian students. This year two students from
Macedonia2025 dedicates a lot of Macedonia received full scholarships at the Russian Presiden-
attention to education. What programs tial Academy, and we hope that next year there would be an
are you working on at the moment? opportunity for more scholarships.

B. M. Stamenova: We have several ed- This year Macedonia2025 became a part of the global family
ucational programs intended for execu- IdEA. What kind of alliance is it?
tive directors, entrepreneurs and young
leaders. We formed an educational fund B. M. Stamenova: IdEA is an alliance of associations from dif-
wherewith we provided scholarships ferent groups of expatriates which share information about the
for managers with the potential to be- importance of the diaspora in the world. We continuously learn
come leaders of successful companies. from the activities of the countries with the most prominent
The study travel to Canada provides the strategy to attract the diaspora. The Government of Ireland
awards grants to startup companies established by the diaspora
in an amount of 50,000 Euros. The innovative boom in Ireland
is due exactly to the innovative young people who transferred
their business to Dublin. Hungary has a fund to cover all cost
related to the migration of people from the diaspora back to
the country within one year. Croatia and Albania have a re-
search fund which awards grants for association of the scien-
tists from the diaspora with the local scientists. The Armenian
group 2020 has a fund from the diaspora of 200 million Euros
per year, which helps the vulnerable categories and builds in-
frastructural facilities in the rural environments. The Israeli
diaspora is the most famous example in the world, and the Di-
rector of the program Birthright Israel, Gideon Mark Amir will
speak at the Summit in Skopje. We can learn a lot from these
examples. Macedonia is at the very beginnings of the utilization
of the inexhaustible potential of the diaspora.

Zoran Jovanovski

84 September 2016