“BGLOBAL” magazine gathers representatives of companies and municipalities from Montana, Vratsa and Vidin at a regional forum “Business and the Regions: Northwestern Bulgaria – The Perspective”. It will be held on April 29 at the Zhytomyr Hotel in Montana at 1:30 p.m. The forum is part of BGLOBAL’s national initiative “Business and the Regions”, which the magazine’s team has been developing for four years. Partners are the National Association of Municipalities, the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and the Institute for Market Economy, the magazine reports.
The discussion will take place in two main panels:
– “Directions of development” – how the North-West can develop faster and more successfully. National and local policies. Opportunities to improve the business environment, successful practices and options for their multiplication.
– “Investments in people” – opportunities for education and qualification of young people in the region. Local policies for attracting and retaining investors and personnel. Education policies at local and national level.
Participants and panelists are managers of leading companies from the region such as Kozloduy NPP, Emko, Monbat Group, Compass; the mayors of Montana, Mezdra and Belogradchik; representatives of the executive branch.
At the beginning of the discussion, the executive director of the Institute for Market Economy, Svetla Kostadinova, will outline the economic profile and potential niches for accelerated growth of the Northwest region. The beginning of the conversation in the second panel will be given by the sociologist and professor from the New Bulgarian University Vasil Garnizov, who will talk about education and demography, about the possibilities of returning and detaining young people in the northwestern part of Bulgaria.
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