Issue 16

ERENET Profile Vol. IV, No. 4.
www.erenet.org
While preparing the Annual Meeting we withdrew the membership of one Moldavian and one
Ukrainian Members, who changed their carriers, but in spite of several correspondences they did not replied
to the letter send by the Secretariat.
We welcome our new Members. It is a long list to mention everybody. You can find the CVs of our
members on the ERENET web-site at http://www.erenet.org/members/members.htm
and the attached Members of the ERENET as of 20 September 2009.
Following the 50 th Jubilee Scientific Conference and Celebration of the Institute of Economic
Sciences we achieved a significant organizational leap forward. On 15 December 2008, the ERENET
Secretary informed its Members and possible Candidates, that the ERENET SECRETARY FOR
SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE opened at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade. This is a
promising initiative indeed. IES has a brilliant history, a strong staff and good infrastructure. Its possibilities
and opportunities are not exploited yet for the ERENET. We have to discuss this issue during our Meeting.
However, I would like to thank Dejan Eric and his staff for all their efforts in promotion of the ERENET as
well as in organizing this event.
The address of the ERENET Secretary for South-Eastern Europe is the following:
Institute of Economic Sciences
Ms. Vesna Pejovic, SEE Secretary
11000 Belgrade, Zmaj Jovina 12, Republic of Serbia
E-mail: office@ien.bg.ac.rs Web: http://www.ien.bg.ac.yu/index_en.html
It is my honour to inform you that the Small Business Development Centre at the Budapest Corvinus
University serves as Headquarters for ERENET. We are grateful to Prof. Tamás Mészáros, Rector of the
University and Prof. Péter Szirmai, Head of the Small Business Development Centre, for providing us the
facilities and the secretariat. On behalf of the ERENET Network I would like to thank for their support. It is
also my privilege to thank Attila Pethoe, Associate professor Secretary of the ERENET, for us maintaining the
secretariat work, and also for maintaining our the web-site,
MAIN ACTIVITIES SINCE THE 3 rd ANNUAL MEETING
1. The 5th European Day of the Entrepreneur in Croatia
„Croatian Gateway to Growth”
1-2 October 2008, Zagreb
The ERENET Scientific Director moderated the Conference on “Employment through
Education” at the Almeria Centre in Zagreb. Some 60 participants including 40 high-school and university
students attended this event. Other events run parallel in rather faraway places from each other. Several
ERENET Members participated in this event. I wish to express by special thanks to Mrs. Visna Mc.Master, an
innovative entrepreneur, founder and business owner, whose enthusiastic contribution raised the attention of
the audience – especially youth – toward entrepreneurship.
The subject of this Conference was appropriate both in Croatia as well as in the old and new EU
countries. By 2010, half of the jobs available in Europe will require people with high skills. Only 15% will be
available for those people who have only primary education. The Croatian current structure of the labour
force – only 7.8% with higher education while 50% with primary education – does not fit with the future
requirements in closing up with the Europe and shows the direction where the education Government and the
society should go.
In addition to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit among the citizens there is also a need to
encourage the entrepreneurial thinking at the government level as well.
There is an important task in increasing skill by developing and redefining the education. The
Croatian Government has to improve its educational and training policies to make these more responsive to
anticipated changes in the labour market.
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