Participating in the School for Young Leaders, you receive a certificate, a ticket for the trip called life. I hope that everything you have learned so far, the knowledge, skills, friendships, will serve in the next trip, the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, told the participants of the 6th School for Young Leaders, held in Ohrid.

At the awarding of the certificates for participation and successful completion of the ten-day intensive leadership training, President Ivanov compared the experience gained through the School for Young Leaders with a boat, and a leader, as he said, is the one who holds the helm and takes care of all passengers, doing everything to bring them to the mainland despite the storms.

"You are a generation that frequently travels by car. Therefore, it is enough to look back through your rear-view mirror and to look ahead with eyes wide open and see indefinitely. Be responsible for your passengers, for what life brings", President Ivanov said, urging the young leaders to share their knowledge with others.

President Ivanov advised the participants of the School to be good persons, inclined towards the good in life.

"Always do good things, hence beauty never goes without goodness. And then comes the awareness of justice", President Ivanov said among the other things.

He expressed hope that all participants of this School for Young Leaders, in the past ten days, were filled with self-confidence, vision, skills, knowledge which cannot be acquired through books, but through acquaintances, friendships, contacts.

At this year's School participated 44 young leaders who had the opportunity to hear experience, knowledge, from twenty renowned lecturers from top educational and professional institutions from Macedonia, Europe, USA, Israel and Morocco ... Among the lecturers of the 6th School for Young Leaders were the former Bulgarian President, Petar Stoyanov, the former Vice President of the European Commission and Foreign Minister of Italy, Franco Frattini, Marc Otte, CEO of the Royal Institute for International Relations - Egmont, Abdulaziz Othman Al-Twaijri, Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "ISESCO", Jovan Kovacic, member of the executive committee of the Trilateral Commission and CEO of "East West Bridge", Matthew Kwasiborski, Director of the European Institute of the Fund for American Studies...

In the past five years the School was attended by around 200 young people and more than 120 lecturers, including the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the former presidents of the Czech Republic and the Republic of Serbia, Vaclav Klaus and Boris Tadic, the presidents of the World and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ivo Slaus and Felix Unger, and many ambassadors, European Union officials, directors of international institutes and successful businessmen, professors from renowned universities worldwide.

The idea of President Ivanov is to enable talented and ambitious young people from Macedonia to upgrade and improve their skills, develop their creativity and leadership skills by organizing this school.
The participants of the previous schools are organized in the Alumni association – ISLAA, registered as a separate association, which, through the organization of seminars, panel discussions, lectures, meetings with ambassadors, participation in youth events, further develops the knowledge and skills of the school participants.