Coca-Cola HBC Serbia Director for Communications and PR Sandra Parezanovic told a press conference that this long-term project is for the best students who will be offered professional and financial assistance to create better conditions for professional development of young people.
Parezanovic explained that students with leadership and management skills will have the opportunity to get the know-how and skills that they do not receive in their classical education.
This company wants to contribute to widening the perspectives for professional development of young people who have an average mark of 8.5 out of 10, an excellent command of English and advanced computer literacy.
The seven best students will get €2,000 scholarships for one academic year and a chance to be employed at Coca-Cola, she said noting that the contest will be finished by December.
All further information can be obtained at
www.cchbc-talents.co.yu. The contest is open until October 24.
Serbian Minister of Education and Sport Slobodan Vuksanovic said that granting scholarships to students is an ideal example of how education and business cooperate and noted that this is a good way to prevent the “brain drain”.
He pointed to the necessity of investing in the future and development of young people and recalled that the state, through its Fund for Young Talents, allocated €10 million for financing successful students this year and announced that the government plans to set aside €14 million for next year.