After three rounds of competition, we will have the regional winner!
After pitching together in Belgrade and Sarajevo, LEADER project winners from Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, will finally pitch their business ideas together for the third time, in front of a regional and international jury at the Final Regional Business Pitching Competition, to be held on 7thNovember in Hotel Marriott (ABC Room), from 1 pm to 3 pm, as part of the Macedonia2025 Summit.
“We are so eager to see the final presentations of the eight competitors and announce the overall winner of the competition. This WBF project has been a great way of enhancing the regional presence of our LEADER project, thus improving the cooperation between entrepreneurs from the three countries.”– inform representatives from the three sites CANSEE (Canadian Serbian Business Association), Macedonia2025 and Restart respectively.
At the beginning of the competition, Antoaneta Ivanova– Project Coordinator and Communications Officer at WBF, John I. Bitove Jr. – Chairman and CEO of Obelysk and Biljana Markovic Stamenova – Executive Director at Macedonia2025, will address the audience. Distinguished international business professionals from Macedonian origin will be part of the jury.
This regional business pitching competition has been enabled thanks to the project “Strengthening of Cross-border Cooperation and Relations in the Western Balkans through People to People Contact of Young Entrepreneurs“, funded by the Western Balkans Fund, created with the aim of financing small and medium-sized projects in the field of education, sustainable development and human rights in the countries of the Western Balkans.