Zaev: Partnership between governments, private sector and education for progressive society


The partnership between the governments, the private sector and the education systems provides motivating and progressive society, PM Zoran Zaev said at Thursday’s opening of Institute for Business & Management Heidelberg – Skopje, which organises the first international conference titled “International Standards in Controlling – Implementation in Practice” in cooperation with the Academy of Banking and Information Technology (ABIT).

In regard to the reputation of “FORUM Institute for Management” Heidelberg, as international group of institutes engaged in training of corporate specialists and managers as well as students, the facts include: 1,500 events per year, 4,500 seminar days and 20,000 participants per year, top lecturers and up-to-date topics, Zaev said.

One of the most important features in the work of this institute is the close relation with practice, i.e. with business and entrepreneurial reality, and combining the practice with latest trends in economic science.

He underlined that this feature is of significant importance for promotion of entrepreneurship as modern business and development philosophy of private and public, economic and non-economic enterprises and profit and non-profit organisations.

Zaev emphasized that the link between business, government policies and education should create conditions for strong and prosperous societies.

“I think that nobody should be in dilemma that the free market stimulates economic growth, creates jobs and increases income. If we provide uninterrupted conditions for these assumptions, markets and private initiative can provide the necessary financing to our top development priorities, which are created from the government’s strategic goals of the economic policies,” Zaev said.

He said that the advantages of innovation and successful entrepreneurship are not only beneficial for private investors and executive managers. Here is important the role of governments and government policies to recognise the opportunities and potentials of private initiatives and innovative breakthroughs in business and entrepreneurship.

“That’s why the role of the governments and its policies is to provide motivating environment for overall private sector. To create and to carry out conditions for business and for management with fair and transparent regulation,” Zaev underlined.

Therefore, if we want to realise our development goals, if we want to build a society that is growing and progressing, the private sector, governments and education systems must work together, Zaev emphasized, adding that this higher education institution will bring latest trends in postgraduate education in our country.

Prominent professors, businessmen and representatives of the public administration also attended the conference.