UACS Business Council incorporates more than 170 companies, organizations, NGO-s and governmental bodies, united in one goal: To enable better education for young students.

The first constitutive meeting of the Business Council (BC) of University American College Skopje was held on May 22, 2007, at the premises of the University.

First President was Dr. Zivko Gruevski, Honorary Consul of Canada in Macedonia (2006-2009), followed by Iijancho Gagovski, CEO of Microsoft Macedonia (2009-2013), Mr. Antoni Peshev, MBA, CEO of Ultra Computers and Chairman of the Assembly of the Economic Chamber of Macedonia (2013-2017), Ms. Dragana Chifliganec, Executive Director of Adora Engineering (2017-2019), and Ms. Elena Mladenovska, Executive Director of Tikves Winery (2019 – 2022).

The current President of the UACS Business Council is Dita Starova, Director of the National Gallery, who was appointed as the new President at the 9th General Assembly Meeting of the UACS Business Council, which was held in December 2022.

The Business Council’s mission is: 

• To create an environment where both academia and business can have mutual communication to create better curricula, learning outcomes, and learning environments;
• To encourage and support B2B relationships;
• To support the University as an asset for education and consulting in the society;
• To enable internships and jobs for students and;
• To provide – when possible – professor of management practice; Business Council consists of
• General Assembly – All business council members
• Clusters (Board of Trustees for each school)
• Business Council Coordinative (Managing) Body consists of:
  1. President of the Business Council,
  2. Presidents of Clusters of each school and
  3. Former President of the Business Council

JOIN THE UACS BUSINESS COUNCIL!

UACS Business Council is open to cooperation with all companies, institutions, and organizations, that are willing to become members.

If your company/organization/institution wishes to join us, it needs to sign an agreement to become a member of the UACS Business Council.

For any further information regarding the membership in the UACS Business Council, please contact Ms. Sandra Grujevska at sandra.grujevska@uacs.edu.mk or + 389 (0) 2 2463 156. 

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP

By joining the UACS Business Council, members get benefits including, but not limited to:

• 5% discount for enrollment in all UACS academic programs (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral programs) – for all employees and their family members;
• 10% discount for professional training aimed at your employees
• Opportunity to influence the curricula development – and get the tailor-made program
• Free promotion at the UACS premises and events
• Networking opportunities: Promote your products or services to UACS students, faculty, UACS Alumni, or other Business Council members.