We have been signing scholarship contracts with our students for the past three days. These are long-term scholarship recipients of the Hastor Foundation, senior students, and first-year students who, for the first time, signed their own scholarship contracts after their previous educational degrees and scholarships.
Our hard-working scholarship recipients studied diligently, passed exams and volunteered at the Hastor Foundation during the previous academic year, which qualified them for the extension of their contracts and the continuation of their scholarships. In the introductory part, the students were greeted by the Hastor Foundation Director, Lejla Đonlagić, who took this opportunity to congratulate the students on their success and the continuation of their scholarships, wished them much happiness and success in the new academic year, and also announced several pieces of news and opportunities that the Hastor Foundation is preparing for them. In addition to the mentor program First Step into the Business World, which we recently introduced for our final-year students and whose pilot phase is already underway, and the standard benefits that the Hastor Foundation has been actively providing for them for years, many other new opportunities and possibilities for students are also in preparation.
We want to take this opportunity to congratulate our students. We wish them that this scholarship contract is just one in a series of successes they will achieve this year and that they continue their mission of creating a better future in our homeland with their knowledge, proactivity, innovation, and philanthropy.