Multi beneficiary workshop titled “Intellectual emigration – effects and implications on the socioeconomic and demographic development” took place on 10 – 11 September 2013 in Sarajevo, BH, organized by the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sector for Diaspora/Emigration, MARRI Regional Centre and RACVIAC.
The workshop gathered High level representatives from National Institutions responsible for creation of National Migration Strategies, resolutions and policies dealing with migration (emigration in particular) issues and development from SEE candidate and potential candidate countries with aim to discuss factors, scope and dynamics of permanent intellectual emigration, which has considerably grown in proportion, of highly educated young people (brain drain) from the countries of the region and its implications for the socioeconomic and demographic development of the countries.
The workshop was opened with welcoming address of Ms. Ruzmira Tihić-Kadrić, Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms. Natalia Dianiskova, Head of Operation section for Social development, Civil Society and Cross Border Cooperation in the EU Delegation in Sarajevo, Ambassador Branimir Mandic, RACVIAC Director and Mr. Toni Jakimovski, State Official of the Republic of Macedonia in the MARRI Regional Centre.