Organizer

Organizer

Faculty of Economics - Prilep, University "St. Kliment Ohridski" – Bitola, Macedonia with financial support of CEI.

The Faculty of Economics - Prilep is a member of the University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – Bitola, which is one of the five state universities in Macedonia. The Faculty of Economics - Prilep is divided in Departments embracing a range of related disciplines that enables successful implementation of the teaching and applicative activities, as well as the scientific research. The departments mainly cover issues regarding development of the study programmes, the teaching and scientific work and other administrative activities. The Faculty of Economics - Prilep comprises the following five departments: Management, Marketing and Business; Economics and development; Accounting, finance and audit; International economics and Business informatics.

The mission of the Faculty of Economics-Prilep is to educate students in the economy, business and management fields, to offer highly competitive and professionally oriented programmes as well as to maintain the high quality of the curricula that will result in skilled graduates capable of responding to the challenges of the modern times.

The research activities in the Faculty of Economics - Prilep are organised by the Research Centre as a separate organisational unit. The Centre has played a key role in the preparation and realisation of several international conferences on various subjects. In addition, the members of the Centre have participated in a number of international projects, the main goal of which is implementing reforms in the higher education. The Faculty of Economics - Prilep was a coordinator in some of these projects, whereas in others it was a partner together with other institutions from South-Eastern Europe and the European Union. In this way, the research activities undertaken by this institution have been gradually approaching the standards adopted by the European Research Area (ERA). Therefore, the Faculty of Economics - Prilep has developed itself into a modern higher education institution which represents an example of successful promoter of knowledge in the region of South-Eastern Europe.