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ŽIGA VAVPOTIČ Listen to the mustn’ts child Listen to the don’ts listen to the shouldn’ts the impossibles the won’ts listen to the never haves then listen close to me ANYTHING can happen child ANYTHING can be. (Shel Silverstein) It is time that we start believing in our dreams and making them a reality. Live and leave trace. PERSONAL DATA: Nationality: Slovene Sex: male Date of birth: 14 December 1984 Place of birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia Business address: GlobcalDreamVision d.o.o. Ziga Vavpotic Savlje 14 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia E-mail: ziga@globaldreamvision.com Telephone: +386 (0)51 421 255 (mobile) Fax: +386 (0)1 43 47 463 Home Address: Ziga Vavpotic Petkovškovo nabrežje 39 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia E-mail: ziga.vavpotic@gmail.com Telephone: +386 (0)1 43 47 462 Fax: +386 (0)1 43 47 463 Blog: www.zigavavpotic.com Summary Žiga Vavpotič, a student of international relations at Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana, born 14th of December 1984 in Ljubljana, has finished Bezigrad high school with one of the highest average. Currently he is entrepreneur, manager of Business Club Socius, a journalist at Youth Program National Radio Slovenia, representative of Youth Employment Summit and Salzburg Seminar. He did some consulting work for different government on youth issues. Since 2004 he is a member of Board of Director of EcoVentures, in 2003 UNESCO Asp Net gave him a title Youth Ambassador, in March 2005 he finished work as columnist in a project Global Youth Voice, The Kansas City Star Newspaper, 2004 he became a youngest member of consulting board of Microsoft, who was called upon request from Bill Gates (Microsoft Office Information Worker Board of the Future). The entire time he is active on youth issues, so he established in 2003 Slovenian Youth Association. Together with a Law School of University of Ljubljana, he found Economic Forum. He is also founder of University for life. From 2006 he is running with Monika Bizjak Slovene office of Hakes - organisation consulting people on studying abroad and organising entrance exams for selected higher education institutions. He is educating himself at home and abroad, and for his work he received different scholarships and is welcomed guest at different conferences. He was in head of different youth delegations and is member of different organization in Slovenia and around the world. It is his special honored that he became in 2000 the youngest member in Slovenia of Mensa International. Different interviews around the world show wide understanding of the world and many friendships connect Slovenia with a world. In February 2005 he found company Global Dream Vision, Žiga Vavpotič s.p., which he has change to Globcaldreamvision ltd., which offers people more quality and better life. ˝ Success is decision and it means a lot to me if I can leave a mark with my work. Looking for dreams in people and help them to achieve their goals is something amazing. Satisfaction in people brings us for sure quality global development, ˝ says Ziga. His ambitions are to develop GlobcalDreamVision to a known global brand, which will be able to listen to people and help them to a better tomorrow. He is writing blog. He is not married, although happy in love. His motto is Live and leave trace! Activities and occupations Manager of Business Club Socius, 2008 Owner and chairman of the company GlobcalDreamVision ltd. January 2008 Journalist at Slovenian National Radio – Youth and children program, 2003 Member of Board of Directors of EcoVentures, USA, February 2004 Together with Monika Bizjak, country coordinator for Hakes - organisation consulting people on studying abroad and organising entrance exams for selected higher education institutions, 2006 - Owner and chairman of the company Global Dream Vision February 2005 – January 2008 Country coordinator of Youth Employment Summit 2002 Director General of Slovenian Youth Association, 2003 - 2006 Formal education 31.8.1999 finished Primary School OS Ledina (average grade: 5 (out of 5)) 31.8.2003 finished High School Bezigrajska gimnazija (average grade: 4,76 (out of 5)) 1.10.2003 – 31.9.2004 Student of School of Law, University of Ljubljana 1.10.2004 – Student of Faculty of Social Science – Political Science, International Relations 1.10.2007 – International school for Social and Business studies – Economy Other education 2008 2007 2007 2005 - 2007 2004 - 2005 2004 2004 2003 2003 London School of Public Relations Dr. Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats Course and Lateral thinking course Discover Management Program, IEDC – Bled School of Management, 5 ECTS Different workshops about marketing, including National Championship in Direct Marketing (between best 8) Speaker license for journalists by National Radio Johns Hopkins University, Youth Organizing Institute, Training program, Vukovar, Croatia World Colleges, Wales, UK, Summer school University of Plymouth, UK, Communication in youth project Cambridge College Youth Leadership Training Program Honoured titles, awards UNESCO ambassador, named by ASP net and Unesco commission, 10th December 2003 Salzburg Seminar (www.salzburgseminar.org) Alumni Leader in Slovenia April 2004 - Member of Microsoft Information Worker Board of the Future (as the youngest of 13 emerging thought leaders from around the world) May 2004 – May 2005 Global Youth Voice panelist, The Kansas City Star Newspaper (as one of 12 youth from around the world) March 2004 – March 2005 Cambridge College Certificate Youth Leadership Training Program, 2003 City Award for Research work, 1998, 1999 National Championship Direct Marketing, Lisac & Lisac, 2007 (between best 8) Membership Slovenian Organization UNICEF Slovenia, 2008 - Student Council of International School of Social and Business Studies (representative of third year and member of Academic council), 2008 Liberal Party (the youngest member of committee for international relationships and committee for schooling) 2000 - Youth Liberal Democracy Slovenia (member of Executive board, Ljubljana region) 2000 - Liberal Academy (the youngest, when became member), 2002 - Slovenian Association for International Relations (the youngest, when became member), 2003 - Slovenian Political Science Association, 2003 - Forum 21 2004- International Commercial Law Society Slovenia (the youngest, when became member), 2003 – 2005 Friends of Youth Association 1998 - 2005 The Atlantic Council Slovenia 2003 - 2005 Slovenian Statistic Association 2003 – 2005 International organization Mensa International (the youngest in Slovenia, when became member), 2000 - Youth Employment Summit 2002 - TakingITglobal 2002 - Salzburg Seminar Alumni 2003 - Peace Child International 2003 - Pioneers of change 2002 - 2005 Global Youth Alliance 2002 - 2005 Glocal Youth Assembly 2003 - 2005 Additional knowledge Languages Slovene (mother), English (active), German (passive), Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian (basic). Understand some Latin. Computer knowledge (note: 5 excellent) Word: 4 PowerPoint: 2 Outlook: 3 Internet: 5 Other knowledge Driving licence Ski teacher licence Sailing licence Golf licence Conferences and trainings Youth Parliament (1996, 1997, 1998), Slovenia UNESCO Camp (1997), Slovenia 1st World Youth conference - Ten Priorities for New Millennium (1999), Hawaii Youth of Unity (2001), USA Education for a Better Human Future (2001), Indonesia Africa Speaks (2001), Zimbabwe Youth Employment Summit (2002), Egypt Communication in youth projects, University of Plymouth (2003), UK Vienna International Model UN (VIMUN), Vienna (2003), Austria 2nd World youth conference – Solidarity, Tolerance and Sustainable Development (2003), Morocco Forum 2000 (2003), Czech Republic Salzburg Seminar Session 413, "Engaging Youth in Community Development" (as the youngest fellow in the history of Seminar), Salzburg (2003), Austria Youth and Globalization, Council of Europe (2004), France First IW Dream Week, main U.S. campus in Redmond, Washington (2004), USA Young people can Change the world, summer school, Wales (2004), UK World Youth Congress, Prepcom, University of Stirling, Scotland (2004), UK World Youth Festival, Barcelona (2004), Spain Training program for social change activists, Vukovar (2004), Croatia EuroBiz 05, Business Development Congress, Ljubljana (2005), Slovenia Third World Youth Congress, Stirling, Scotland (2005), UK Field Trip UNICEF, (2008) Burkina Faso E-conference Youth Strategy, 2003, World Bank Defining Roles for Youth and the Next Generation of Leaders, February 2004, WB Youth and Education, March & April 2004, World Bank Delegations and exchanges Japan, 1999 Zimbabwe, head of European delegation, 2001 Brussels (EU and NATO), 2002 Sweden, head of delegation of 20 pupils 2002 Cuba, head of delegation of 8 pupils 2002 Brussels (EU and NATO), 2002 World Youth Festival, head of Slovenian delegation (27 people), 2004 (Co) founder Slovenian Youth Association, 2003 Global Dream Vision, Žiga Vavpotič s.p., 2005 Economic Forum, School of Law, University of Ljubljana, 2005 University for Life, 2006 Globcaldreamvision d.o.o., 2008 Researches Youth in society, Slovenian youth in EU, Slovenian in foreign countries, Effective use of energy in housekeeping, Globalization, Conflict, Different researches during studying, topic: international relations, economy and HRM Current research interests INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Globalization, Sustainable and International Development, International Relations (diplomacy), Poverty, Development aid, MDGs (Millenium development goals), BRIC countries MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS Social Responsibility, Foundations, Fund Raising, Social Economy, Trust and Ethic, Crises Management, Values, Management of Organizations, Cross-cultural Management, Public Relations, Intellectual Capital PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONAL FINANCE Communication skills, Relationships, Personal Development, Leadership, Success, IQ, EQ, SQ, Mediation, Imago therapy, Graphology, Financial Intelligence, Personal Finance and Investing, Networking, Lobbying, Conflicts YOUTH Opinion about Young People and Youth in Society, Youth Employment, Youth and Entrepreneurship, Youth projects and organizations in Slovenia and in the World OTHERS Chocolate, Royal Families, Etiquettes, Slovenian Politics, Future Scholarships National Scholarship for talented youth (1999 - 2004) Scholarship for Youth Unity, Kansas City (2001) Scholarship for Conference Education for a Better Human Future, Indonesia (2001) Scholarship for Youth Employment Summit, Egypt (2002) Fellow Scholarship for Salzburg Seminar Session 413 (2003) Projects Youth in EU, round table, head of organizers Blog, www.zigavavpotic.com University for life Speeches Human right day, UNESCO, Unesco youth ambassadors, Future, Ljubljana, 10.12.2003 40 years of Slovenian Institute of Quality and Metrology, Vision, Ljubljana, 23.9.2004 Conference: Everything is possible, Tallinn, Versus Newspaper, How to sell your ideas in the wide world, 30.10.2004 Articles, essays Božič,Vavpotič, Večer (newspaper), 24.9.2002, Kako do delovnih mest za 500 milijonov mladih (How to get jobs for 500 millions young people), article Vavpotič, Žiga, Discussion about a future of Slovenia hosted by President of Republic Slovenia, 2003, Values-youth, contribution Vavpotič, Žiga, Discussion about a future of Slovenia hosted by President of Republic Slovenia, 2004, Public Diplomacy, contribution Vavpotič, Žiga, Youth Radio, Radically Reducing World Poverty: What is Our Role?, 2004, essay Vavpotič Žiga, Delo (newspaper), 5.7.2004, Butalci ali bodoči intelektualci? (Blockheads or future intellectuals? ), opinion Interviews National TV NEWS Japan National TV NEWS Zimbabwe National TV NEWS Morocco RFI - Radio France International CNN Different interviews in Slovenia Recommendations On your request, more than 20 national & international recommendation letters can be issued.
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