The University of Banja Luka signed an Agreement on Cooperation and Academic Exchanges with Towson University from the United States of America.

The agreement stipulates that the contracting parties will work together on promoting educational and academic exchanges, academic information materials and publications, and encourage mutual educational visits.

This agreement was concluded at the initiative of Bojan Vujić, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States of America (USA), who said that this was only the beginning and that Towson University was one of the best universities in the US.

- The agreement is a big thing and a large step for the University of Banja Luka. It concerns one of the best universities in the US and this is only the beginning of cooperation. We are already negotiating with several of their universities and looking forward to more agreements in the coming period - said Vujić, adding that as soon as the situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic passes, he expects a delegation of the University of Banja Luka to visit Towson University in the US, as well as representatives of Towson University to visit the University of Banja Luka.

Incidentally, work on planning joint activities under this agreement has already started, and already on 5 February 2021, a trilateral meeting of representatives of Towson University, Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences and University of Banja Luka was held on the occasion of joint organization of a webinar on entrepreneurship development at universities.

The webinar will be held on 27 April via Zoom platform and be intended for students, teachers and teaching assistants.

At this meeting, the University of Banja Luka was represented by the Head of the Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer Center, Anđela Pepić, and the Vice Dean for Teaching at the Faculty of Economics, Dragan Gligorić.

Source: RTRS