The ties of young Serbs from the region with Serbia should be strengthened, and conditions should be provided for youth to remain in their countries and return to them, stated the Summit of Serbian Youth and Students of the Balkans currently held in Belgrade. Under the slogan Synergy as the key to success, 300 participants gathered from Serbia, Srpska and Montenegro.
The summit is an initiative that can help us grow together and have concrete results which will lead to young people remaining in the region, points out the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić. Owing to reforms, Serbia is recording influx of the highly educated for the first time, and the goal is to offer youth equal chances as in the most advanced countries of the world.
– The summit should serve us to see what has been done, what has yielded results and what we, as the Government of Serbia, should offer to the countries in the region, to have such results also in those countries – says Brnabić.
The future science and technology park in Banja Luka will probably be part of the scientific and research network that will be formed. The Minister of Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society of Srpska, Srđan Rajčević, believes that the Serbian national corps needs greater integration in the 21st century.
Rajčević says that these integrations primarily concern the competencies needed in the 21st century.
– These competencies fall into the fields of science, research, digital literacy, everything we speak about in relation to a 21st century person. So, that is what we want to see on both the left and the right bank of the Drina, and I think that really a lot has been done in that sense in the past seven or eight years – said Rajčević.
A strong factor connecting young Serbs in the region is national, religious, cultural and linguistic identity. In that field, Srpska and Serbia are conducting numerous activities, from joint curricula for national subjects, to the Forum for Cyrillic and the Caravan of Speech Culture.
The Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska, Natalija Trivić, points out that institutional connection is very important, but that it is equally important that young Serbs living in the region meet, socialize, work on projects and thus contribute to strengthening national and cultural identity.
Discussions also covered the importance of sports events and the role of sports in strengthening the collective spirit.
The Minister of Family, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Srpska, Sonja Davidović, pointed out that networking of youth from the Republic of Srpska and Serbia was an important topic.
She pointed out that Srpska and Serbia already had many joint projects, such as summer sports schools and small Olympic Games, but also that young athletes from Srpska, Nemanja Majdov, Saša Čađo, Tijana Bošković, were members of Serbian national teams.
The organizers of the Serbian Youth and Balkan Students Summit are Center for Education and Development of Youth of Belgrade and Students Conference of Serbian Universities, with the support of the Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region of the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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