Did you know that a successful Slovenian company in the field of biochemistry, Biolinker, operates in São Paulo, that an accounting services company operates in Caixa do Sul, the owner of which has Slovenian roots, and that Slovenian vines are also grown in Brazil?
“Young Slovenians around the world don’t know each other, and there is a huge amount of untapped potential,” believes Maja Lapornik, the principal of the Žiga Zoisa Institute, who immediately included her school in the project launched this year by the SDGZ). Thus, between November and December, students Nataša Močnik and Daniel Maurel spent a month in Brazil. This week Lana Das Neves Oliveira Ravbar and Antonio Novello Hrast from Brazil came to Trieste for just as long a period.
“We have to thank Štefan Bogdan Barenboim Šalej, a Slovenian entrepreneur and diplomat living in Brazil, for starting the Business Internship project,” Andrej Šik, director of SDGZ, explained at the press conference. “He organized a group of Slovenian entrepreneurs in Brazil and created the Slovenian Global Business Network on a global level. He connected Slovenian entrepreneurs around the world who want to cooperate.”
“For many years we have talked about the need to involve young people in the economy, but we have done little about it,” Šik said. This year, the project was a pilot, so only the Zois Institute was involved, but they hope that in the coming years, other schools will also participate in it: “For the coming years, we are already in contact with entrepreneurs from the USA, Canada, Argentina, Sweden and France.” The Government’s Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenians Abroad took care of the financial side of the project, while the school took care of the administrative aspect.
Source: Primorski dnevnik. The article in the Slovene language is available HERE.
The RTV SLO reportage is available HERE.