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The Bosnian Integration Forum (BIF) organized the first BHFest of Knowledge and Success in Sarajevo as part of a mission to build a register and service for the BiH diaspora.
Panelists are successful citizens from various sectors who have achieved enviable accomplishments in the world or who have returned to their homeland and achieved specific achievements.
The fundamental purpose of the BIF initiative, according to Hasib Hadžić, the President of the BIF BiH, is to establish a register and service for the diaspora throughout BiH.
There is no official list of Bosnians and Herzegovinians who have achieved international success in many fields, and many are both well-known and unknown. Therefore, the BIF’s goal is to create a register that will include everyone from the diaspora- Mr. Hadžić pointed out.
Već su potpisali nekoliko memoranduma s lokalnim zajednicama: Cazin, Jajce, Živinice, Srebrenik, Novi Grad Sarajevo, Šipovo, Vitez, te tako predstavili i projekt registratora i servisa.
S obzirom da je i sam povratnik, Hadžić kaže da je znanje i iskustvo koje je stekao na zapadu odlučio da prenese i primijeni u BiH, te će kroz registrator okupljati bh. dijasporu i biti servis dijaspori.
Slobodan Šoja a historian, diplomat, and lecturer at the Sorbonne University in France, was one of the panelists, saying that the project, based on your enthusiasm, was one of the best because it focused on “how we might support the diaspora.”
We are often very selfish, and the diaspora benefits us by allowing us to ‘grab’ some of them and bring them in, which may be beneficial, but we almost never wonder if we can help the diaspora. This platform gives the diaspora and us the opportunity to become one and the same- Mr.Šoja emphasizes.
He explained that as more young people go abroad, additional aspects of cooperation must be considered, and that in the future, we will live in a world where the diaspora is the state and we are the diaspora at the same time.
He emphasized that young people should use the opportunity to acquire knowledge that is offered outside BiH, but not to forget their country, and that this should be a new strategy.
For Amna Muhamedović, the best student in the history of the University of Sarajevo, this event and similar meetings are an opportunity to affirm the knowledge she has acquired, and she has already received seven business offers.
At the moment, I think I will stay in BiH, but I will gladly take advantage of any education or training to gain more knowledge outside BiH and apply it there – said Muhamedović.
The panelists are accomplished citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the diaspora, including Switzerland, France, Germany, and the United States, as well as BiH.
The BIF project, in which the investors are BIH citizens from the diaspora, has resulted in the opening of the café restaurant City Walk, which employs 25 young people. Through the humanitarian organization Pomozi.ba’s project “Meal for everyone,” the profit from the investment will be used to provide meals for school children, the elderly, old and disabled people from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina.