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SARAJEVO, November 27 (FENA) - All media are kindly invited to cover a launching event of a new phase of the 'EU Scheme for Young Professionals in the Western Balkans', a regional EU-funded education and exchange program designed for young civil servants from the Western Balkans.
The event will take place on Wednesday, 28 November starting at 12:00 at the EU Info Center.
Khaldoun Sinno, Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maja Rimac-Bjelobrk, Assistant Director of the Directorate for European Integration of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Larisa Halilović, Director of the British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina will address the audience on this occasion.
The "EU Scheme for young professionals in the Western Balkans" was established as a follow-up to the Summit on the Western Balkans held in Paris in 2016. It aims to contribute to the progress of the accession process and deepen regional cooperation in the Western Balkans.
Based on the program's encouraging results, this year again 30 civil servants from the Western Balkans, five of them from Bosnia and Herzegovina, have been selected to be a part of the program. They will be travelling to Paris on 2 December to attend a two-week tailor-made executive training course in public policy management at Science Po University, before moving to the College of Europe, Bruges, in February 2019.
Upon completion of the training programs, civil servants will participate in a regional exchange in March/April 2019 and a Regional Conference in May 2019.
This year's participants Adis Palo and Kerim Hodžić, from the Directorate for European Integration of the Council of Ministers of BiH, Liljana Đurić from the Department for European Integration of the Ministry of the interior of Republika Srpska, Nejra Sarić from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH and Tamara Bajkuša from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, will attend the event.
The project is funded by the European Union and implemented by the British Council, stated the EU Delegation to BiH.
(FENA) S. R.
