Apply for the program of strengthening the entrepreneurial skills for young agriculturists

Are you between 20 and 35 years old and building your career in agricultural sector? Do you want to improve your capacities, learn about entrepreneurship and projects and become leader in your community? Then the AGRIPRENEUR project is the right for you! 

Do you want to participate? Hurry to link with all the details.

Through this project in the coming period, 50 young people will have an opportunity to strengthen the leadership and entrepreneurial skills, innovations and project managing and to build a strong network of contacts and together with the colleagues generate a success and achieve positive results in agricultural sector and local community. The participants will attend two workshops during the project, in Bijeljina from Monday, November 28th, until Wednesday, November 30th 2022, and in Mostar in spring 2023.

Applications for taking part in the interactive workshops are open

During the three-day program in Bijeljina, the chosen participants will have an opportunity to listen to the series of lectures and to attend practical and interactive workshops during which they will acquaint themselves with crucial trends in the field of agriculture, the application of the IT in agricultural sector and identifying the challenges they will work on for the rest of the program. The workshop program will also include visiting the people already successfully applying this practice and also numerous opportunities for socializing and making contacts.
Participation in the workshops is free, and the expenses of transportation, accommodation and food will be covered by the organizers.

How to apply?

You can find the application form on the link, but before that, it is important to prepare a CV in the given form which can be downloaded here and to introduce yourself in a creative way through the short video.
The applications submitted will be evaluated by the members of the project team considering the following criteria:

• equal men/women proportion at age from 20 to 35 years,
• the applied status will be given to the owners of the companies engaged in the organization or companies that have to do with agriculture (they will have advantage),
• Representation of all the geographic regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
•  Involvement in different kinds of agricultural activities.

You can apply until Friday, November 4th 2022 until 4 p.m. You can find more details on the official project page, and in case of any doubts you can contact the project team at agripreneur@agro.unibl.org.

The AGRIPRENEUR project, supported by the means of the United States Embassy is implemented by the University of Banja Luka with the support of partners from North Carolina State University, INTERA Technology Park, WEBIN and GirlTHink organization.

Date: 05.10.2022.