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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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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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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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The creation of a financial market in BiH – how to ensure financial capital for the development of BiH

Taner Aličehić and Alma Palo Aličehić met in 2008, while they were working together on a Swiss Government project. They had the task to carry out research with a team of people and invest in the banking market in Southeast Europe, which also included Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Success stories - REGENERACIJA d. o. o.

Regeneracija d.o.o. company from Velika Kladusa was founded in 2005. The main activity of the company is the manufacture and installation of wastewater and rainwater treatment devices and water supply systems. To date, the company has expanded its operations to the drainage of roads and bridges. The company employs 60 workers.
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Basel meets Sarajevo

The International Literary Festival BuchBasel will take place from 11th till 13th November 2016 in Basel with more than 100 events and almost 200 participants. Authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina like Lejla Kalamujic und Saida Mustajbegovic will present their writing at the event "Basel meets Sarajevo".
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Salih Teskeredžić: "It is possible to work and earn well in Bosnia and Herzegovina!"

The success of the brand "Gazzda" and the prestigious awards they receive are resulting from the diligent work of a young team of designers, marketing experts and successful managers who say that the most important thing is the belief that in a small country such as Bosnia and Herzegovina you can create a successful brand, work diligently and successfully, produce and sell your work anywhere in the world.
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Bosnian Gruyère Cheese - ''I just wanted to show that it could be done!''

Tatomir Jovičić, an event manager, is the owner of the company "Task Force" and the foundation ''El Mundo'' in Switzerland as well as of two companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ''Tatko'', a wood-processing company, and ''Zlatni sir'', a company producing Bosnian Gruyère cheese.
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Raspberries instead of Mines

As a legacy of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, approximately one million mines were left buried across the whole country. Since the end of the war 1’735 people have been injured or killed by mines. Furthermore, thousands of square kilometres of the surface area are still mined and therefor prevent the access to land for agriculture, while more than 500’000 people still face mine threat nowadays.
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Success Stories - eMedia Patch

Following her return to Bosnia and Herzegovina from the US in 2009, Maša Čampara, with strong faith that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina could use their knowledge to be competitors in the world market, established eMedia Patch – a digital agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina which provides comprehensive media planning services, campaign management, and the most current consulting solutions for online publishers.

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