1. DiA Desire Innovate Achieve
Sachi Bansal (India) [Team leader]
Anuraag Gupta (India)
Seema Bansal (India)
EAST
EUROPE
(SLOVENIA)

2.  East Europe - Many countries, different profiles
 Solutions
 Tourism (Education , medical and adventure tourism)
 Energy (Nuclear and Hydro)
 Education (Higher education and a technology hub)
 Applicable to all EE countries but validation presented
for the case of Slovenia (too diverse conditions and
statistics for different EE countries)

3.  Nuclear energy
 Infrastructure
already present
 Research centres
present to explore
nuclear fusion
 Hydro energy
 Infrastructure
already present -
Upgrade of some
only would add
150MWe of energy
Locations of nuclear reactors over the
world – A good concentration in
Europe and East Europe

4.  East Europe is a region with highest education index
 Slovenia – recently part of EU, potential to collaborate on industrial
research and become EU’s technology hub
 New academic programmes and educational tourism for international
students adds revenue and establishes research environment

5.  Three ideas
 Educational tourism
 Universities can provide international short and medium-length
courses
 Success story of AIESEC in creating international internship
opportunities
 Medical tourism
 Groundbreaking medical infrastructure and support
 High standard of care at low costs compared to rest of Europe
 Adventure tourism
 Slovenia ranked top 10 in developing countries having high ADTI*
 Czech Republic and Slovakia amongst top 10 too
*Adventure Tourism Development Index (http://www.adventureindex.travel/)