INTERCULTURAL

LEADERS

Bostjan Jerman

Fellowship Programme

For the last 12 years I’m working as consultant / idea manager, giving advice how to come from project idea to its implementation, with focus on sustainable business models. For this purpose, I have my own company with the trademark 7samurai. In all this years I have helped to assure funding for more than 100 projects/organizations, including 24 social innovation initiatives in the field of youth empowerment. Based on my references I have become in 2018 a mentor at the European Social Innovation Competition, which is a challenge prize run by the European Commission. As listed on my LinkedIn profile I’m having several professional positions, inter alia Executive Board Member of UN Association of Slovenia, mainly leading projects concerning global education, active citizenship and development issues. In years of civil society engagement, I have implemented several projects, whereby the most relevant are: (1) campaign Stand Up and Take Action Slovenia in 2008 and 2009 – raising awareness about MDGs among youth, mobilizing over 8,000 people in Slovenia; (2) in 2013 he initiated with partner organizations the first Slovenian global education portal Together Strong (in Slovene: Skupaj mocnejsi) for primary and secondary school pupils and their teachers, including workshops on global education; (3) as Executive Board Member of Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO I’m mentoring the UNESCO Youth Platform and launched in 2016 pilot project Connecting Cultures Slovenia (inspired by Connecting Cultures Oman) with the mission to build sustaining partnerships between youth organizations in EUROARAB regions through expeditions in nature; (4) in 2016 I have launched a new web media in Slovenia called “pOZNavalec” covering issues on the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.