Since last month Hristov family is richer by one new member, the third daughter of my brother, named by goddess of wisdom Sofija. Wonderful little girl who was born with 4.3 kg and 56 cm high. My brother is a happy man, since if we count the cat Lady he has 5 women around him. Together with his mother and sister that is 7 woman.
Winter time is good to spent with family. I went skating with my nieces Helena and Lara. It was their first time on the skates. They are already rollerblading so they had no problem learning to skate. We had a great time, Helena and Lara enjoyed it so much.
January In Serbia is time to celebrate New Year, Christmas, Serbian New Year, number of SLAVA-s in short, lots of rest. This year I have spent New Year on Jahorina mountain near Sarajevo in BIH. There was no snow but there was good spirit. My company was in good mood. We like that our friends from Slovakia liked the mountain and everything else.
My client TAM/BAS program of EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) has organized conference on “Energy efficiency in SME sector – Ways to improve your business”. Conference was organized together with Mechanical University in Belgrade and Serbian Chambers of Commerce. On this conference “The manual for improvement of energy efficiency and rational use of energy“ has been presented to participating public and media representatives.
The conference has been attended by so many people despite of heavy snow storm in Belgrade. I hope this conference would help save energy and preserve our environment.
I went to ADA Park today with one of my dearest friends Diane Cromer. Weather was beautiful and we had a great time together at Sunset cafe.
( Ada lake)
WOWD the new revolutionary search engine was presented in Belgrade on press conference my company Hristov Consulting have organized in Majik Cafe on November 6th. Wowd is a real-time search engine for discovering what’s popular on the web right now. It is revolutionary P2P (distributed index) search architecture, offering its users fresher, deeper and more relevant search.
WOWD CEO Mark Drummond at press conference in Belgrade
Great thing about Wowd is that it was completely built by Serbian programmers and IT professionals and it shows the world that we can build revolutionary new technologies, here in Serbia. I am proud to have participated in its global launching campaign.
TV crew from RTS (Serbian Radio Television) came to our offices to record three 5 minute parts to be shown on Tranzionik TV show. I talked on three subjects:
The show will be broadcasted on RTS-2 beginning of the next year Mondays at 5pm
This is the photo we have taken together after the shooting.
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At the beginning of September we have organized very significant event In Sava Centar. We have organized a big conference for the European Council Project “Support for Unemployed and Human Resource Development”. Additionally, we have done media relations for the Project and had 28 coverage’s on most influence media in Serbia, which includes 11 TV coverage’s about event and testimony of people who finished the trainings and found the jobs.
On the conference Mr. Ferenc Simon (1st counselor, Head of Operations, European Commission Delegation), addressed European support to the Projects, Ms. Danica Vasiljevic, (Deputy Director of National Employment Service), Dr. Henrik Jess ( Team Leader GOPA) and Mr. Dejan Nikolić (National Project Director, National Employment Service, Republic of Serbia) presented results through collaboration.
EU-funded project Support for Unemployed and Human Resource Development has carried out a comprehensive training Programme for more than fifteen-hundred unemployed in order for these individuals to find a permanent job. It managed by EU collaboration with experts from GOPA mbH (Germany) in the cooperation with the National Employment Service (NES) and the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development (MoERD).
Training has been organized through ninety-five different short-term vocational training courses spanning different growth sectors of the Serbian economy as documented by labor market analyses carried out by the project. Each training course was designed in collaboration with enterprises and vocational training institutions, and each course combined theoretical understanding with practical learning on-the-job. Priorities have been given to young job-seekers, long-term unemployed, and individuals with disabilities.
The initial effects on employment have been encouraging. More than 35% of the unemployed who graduated from training in 2008 have found a job; in 2009, the results have been affected by the world-wide financial crisis as this has made employers hesitant to hire immediately. More than 10% of those who graduated in 2009 have found a job, and others are actively searching for one based on newly acquired skills through this Programme.
Serbian Lobbyist Association has organized lecture on lobbying and public affairs at the Serbian Chambers of Commerce. Together with my colleagues Balsa Kascelan and Dejan Novakovic I have participated as a lecturer on public affairs. Audience consisted of business people who were very interested to hear about public affair and lobbying.
I was recently engaged in EU project “Working together to employment”. The project is led by German consulting company “GOPA” and we just had event in Vrsac where certificates were given to most successful participants. We will have the big closing event on September 3rd in Sava Centar. I am looking forward to a busy month of August despite summer holidays.
