Support for new generation of young entrepreneurs through Youth Achievement organization
Once again this year Telekom Srbija supported the organization “Youth Achievement in Serbia” by having its employees participate in the programs “Financial Literacy” and “Student Companies” that this organization has been successfully organizing for a number of years.
Within the program “Student Companies”, twelve employees of our company made their contribution in the capacity of mentors – Biljana Vuksanović and Miodrag Nikolić, Human Resources Division, Snežana Isajlović and Nenad Bibić, Brand Strategy and Marketing Communications Department, Ivana Pantelić, Aleksandar Vujić and Maja Mrdaković-Todosijević, Technical Division, Ivana Stanić, Danijela Jović, Dragan Milisavljević, Predrag Krajnović and Vladan Bojić, Strategy and Digital Division, Siniša Radosavljević, Saša Veličković, Miloš Bojović, Đuro Stojaković and Slobodan Petrović, Sales Division, as well as our colleagues Zoran Karić and Ivana Lazović from the Corporate Affairs Division. Our mentor colleagues have, over the previous months, in accordance with their expertise, taught the students how to more successfully organize their company and prepare products for the market, and out of the eighteen companies, five that had the support of mentors from our company made it to the finals of the competition.
“The Student Companies project is a new and positive experience for me. My role as a mentor was to support students who have excellent ideas, who are ready for challenges and determined to achieve what they had in mind. As adults, we can also learn a lot from this experience”, said Ivana Pantelić from the Technical Division.
Since the role of mentors who come from a business environment is, apart from teachers, also very important for the work of student companies, our colleague Biljana Vuksanović was during the ceremonious part of the event, granted a prestigious award for the best business volunteer among the 120 volunteers included in this project.
“The manner in which my participation in the Student Companies project in the role of a mentor inspired me and affected me on the professional and especially personal level, is an experience that cannot be compared to any other. It is a true celebration of youth entrepreneurship, initiative, energy and enthusiasm which I would wholeheartedly recommend to all the professionals in their filed, as an additional incentive to share their knowledge and experience, because they will receive so much more in return. I am glad that the fantastic ideas of my young student-entrepreneurs whose mentor I was, allowed me to go through all competition stages with them and enjoy this process to the maximum”, said Biljana Vuksanović.
The third award at the national competition was won by Student Company “HidroSol”, which in an automated process deals with the production of green energy by combining hydro and solar energy, from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School in Paraćin, while the mentor of this company was our colleague Ivana Stanić from the Strategy and Digital Division.
Students who participated in this project agree that for them this competition was an excellent opportunity to try themselves out in the role of entrepreneurs.
“We carried out our project with the help of mentors from Telekom Srbija who helped us turn our ideas into reality. They were always there for us, answered all our questions and encouraged use to overcome all the problems we encountered”, said Mihajlo Manigodić from the student company “Black Out” from the Zrenjanin High School.
Colleagues Dejan Tomić, Miloš A. Petrović and Bojana Ašković from the Finance Division as well as Miloš Bojović from the Sales Division, took part in the Financial Literacy program in the previous period and tried to familiarise high school students from all parts of Serbia with the sphere of financial operations over the previous period.
The Youth Achievement organization has been implementing educational programs from the field of entrepreneurship in schools throughout Serbia for as long as nineteen years, and our company has been providing support for the implementation of this organization’s program for several years already.
If you wish to apply for participation in the mentorship program for Student Companies in the forthcoming cycle in 2025, contact us via email at: tc-ljudski_resursi@telekom.rs
