"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence." - Rabindranath Tagore

A few enthusiastic people from Serbia had a dream. Dream to be a part of the best students? organization ever. That was the main reason for applying for the membership in BEST. Yet, the application was the easiest step. We knew very well that success doesn't come by itself, knocking on our door. What was coming next was a long way up, ad astra.

BEST Belgrade officially became an Observer of BEST in spring 2003, at the General Assembly that took place in Slovakia. After that, we put ourselves in motion, eager to reach new successes. With enormous help of our Nurse LBG Zagreb, we managed to become a baby member of BEST in only six months, in autumn 2003, on the Presidents' Meeting in Belgium.

Very motivated students were starting a very challenging learning experience. They had invested an important amount of their time to reach the goal. After only a year, in autumn 2004, on Presidents? Meeting in Portugal, BEST Belgrade became a Full member of BEST organization.

During the five-year long period we managed to organize numerous events: courses, regional meetings, jobfairs, motivation weekends, summer meetings, local engineering competition, Saint Valentine's parties and many more. Yet, what we are mostly proud of is having organized "JobFair 08 - Create Your Own Future!" with the partner organization EESTEC, where 60 companies participated; furthermore, of having organized the Regional Meeting in March 2007 with more than 100 students taking part, as well as Jamboree in December 2007, setting a new record with 400 participants. Moreover, what made us feel lofty is that we helped Novi Sad and Nis to form their own BEST groups, forming a beautiful Serbian BEST family. The next step? Who knows - maybe a General Assembly? The new generation of BESTies from Belgrade will tell us?

The truth is that we will never stop improving ourselves, as Socrates said: "Wisdom is knowing how little we know".

BEST is not just an organization, it is a community of people hailing from diversified backgrounds and cultures working hard to create a sense of unity in the diversity. BEST is the way of living?

Misha Miladinovic
Local BEST Group Belgrade