Virtual Mentorship Program - A Development of Young Professionals and Scientists

Broader academic and professional society have realized that the best way of learning and integrating valuable life and professional experience is by learning from experience of others through mentoring processes. Led by the same idea and as a proactive effort to foster their global competitiveness top students from two most influenced graduate schools in Croatia gathered within eSTUDENT organization and they have started virtual mentorship program in which they try to organize cooperation between senior undergraduate students and acknowledged members of academic society and business world who have Croatian heritage. Its goal is to give students that are willing to take initiative and responsibility extracurricular education with the purpose of creating competitive workforce that is going to core of the national competitiveness and value creation.

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