SARAJEVO, APRIL 4 (ONASA) – Today in the premises of the European House of Culture and National Minorities (formerly the Austrian House), the Mayor of Centar Municipality, Srđan Mandić, signed contracts on the awarding of municipal scholarships to “Prof. Dr. Husein Kulenović” with 396 students who fulfilled the conditions of the public invitation. A total of 2,111,900 BAM was provided in this year’s budget of the Center Municipality for awarding scholarships, and 1,239 pupils and students were entitled to a scholarship.
Mayor Mandić greeted all the scholarship holders present and congratulated them on their achievements.
– Just as you are successful students, we must follow your example to do this work as well as possible and to compete in the good and in the know. The municipality of Centar took a step ahead of all others this year. The number of scholarship recipients increases every year and this year we have 1,225 scholarship recipients, for which we allocated a record amount in the municipal budget of 2,111,900 BAM. Every penny we give for this purpose is an investment in real things that will return to the community through your knowledge. We want you to feel proud that you are residents of the Municipality of Centar. You can always turn to the Municipality and it is important that in these difficult times we overcome all the challenges that lie ahead of us, emphasized Mayor Mandić.
After the published public call, in December last year, the Department for Education, Social Activities, Culture and Sports received a total of 1,300 applications.
– I have been a scholarship recipient of the Municipality of Centar since the ninth grade of elementary school, and when I saw this year’s competition, I was surprised at how much monthly scholarship amounts are separated for students. We are glad that this rewards the excellence of the students and I think it is one of the motivations for us to study even more. I follow the work of the Municipality of Centar and I see a lot of projects that it implements for young people. The Municipality of Centar is an example of good practice that can also be used at higher levels, how to act so that young people stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Hena Fajić, a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Education in Sarajevo.
How is the Municipality of Centar known to the public for the 2023/2024 school year? 829 pupils and 396 students receive scholarships.
After all candidate applications have been processed, the final list of municipal scholarship winners was published on March 26, 2024, on the notice board of the Municipality of Centar.
One of the winners of the Centar Municipality scholarship is Adi Hujić, a second-year student at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics with an average grade of 10.0. – This is the sixth year that I have been a scholarship recipient of the Municipality of Centar and I am following this progress as the scholarships grow in monetary terms from year to year. Apart from this, our Municipality Center rewards us for successful results achieved in knowledge competitions, as was the case with my team after winning the silver medal, which is an additional motivation for us to study, said Hujić.
Today’s event on behalf of the Municipality of Centar was also attended by the councilors of the Municipality of Centar: Aida Koluder-Agić, Marijana Podrug-Arapović, Dženan Mulić, Hidajet Porić and Nermin Kapo.
Today’s event was magnified by the students of the Elementary School “Safvet-beg Bašagić” Lamija Bajrović, Muamera Gibanić and Hanadi Parla, accompanied by professor Lidija Bešo.
Among today’s scholarship signatories, there are 94 students with an average grade of 9.5 to 10, 221 of them achieved an average of 8.5 to 9.49, and 81 students who won a municipal scholarship achieved an average grade of 8 to 8.49