EUROTHINK-Center for European Strategies successfully held it the kickoff event: „Youth and Education Cooperation” which is part of the project: „Demystifying the (un)neighborly relations on the path to the EU: The case of North Macedonia and Bulgaria”, , supported by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives through the Canadian Embassy in Belgrade.

The conference was opened by: Mr. David Morgan, Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Belgrade, H.E. Mr. Angel Angelov, Ambassador of Republic of Bulgaria and Mr. Dimitar Nikolovski, Executive Director of Eurothink – Center for European Strategies.

At the event other participants shared their positive experiences, one of the keynote speakers was: Mr. Marko Gjorgievski, Director of the National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility , Ms. Rositsa Dzhambazova, Director of Business Incubator Gotse Delchev, Entrepreneurship Promotion Centre, Bulgaria, and Mr. Borce Serafimovski – representative from International Slavic University (ISU) “Gavrilo Romanovic Derzhavin” and PhD candidate at “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

At the conference, students and university professors who were part of the ERASMUS+ program with Bulgaria share their positive experiences, also representatives of the civil sector, Cross border cooperation CBC-MK-BG representatives, rectors, deans and a young European ambassador shared their positive experiences.