Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering (FINKI) and Boston University signed Tuesday a memo of cooperation thus providing five scholarships for Macedonian students.

The cooperation will commence in the spring semester next year. Students will be selected through adequate criteria and five of them will be given an opportunity to study one semester in first and second cycle study programmes.

Besides Minister without Portfolio Bill Pavleski and Macedonian Ambassador to US Zoran Jolevski also Education Minister Pance Kralev attended agreement signing ceremony, who said that it is significantly important that FINKI programmes passed verification process at Boston University, which means students can study at compatible programmes which will be mutually recognised from aspect of acquired credits.

Pavleski said that agreement is important for attraction of foreign investments in IT sector. It will help foreign companies to see that Macedonia is a destination capable to qualify adequate educational structures, he said.

FINKI Dean Dimitar Trajanov expressed satisfaction from establishing the cooperation, which as he said, would mean that studies at FINKI are accepted as a partnership with the Boston University.

Dimitar Chitkushev professor at Boston University said that the initiative started in 2008 with the Macedonian government and he is an optimist that the cooperation will enable students to continue to come to Boston and vice versa on a regular basis.

In the frames of this cooperation FINKI students can come to Boston to advance training and in the future we will have dual master's degree, which will create a bridge for cooperation between professors working in Skopje and Boston, Chitkushev said.

Boston University is a private institution that was founded in 1839. With 30,000 students from all 50 states and 140 countries, Boston University is the fourth largest independent university in the United States.