ul.Manapo N.3-1/27
1000 Skopje
Macédoine du Nord
- Research
The Institute for Applied Research for Business is a private research institute established in Skopje, R. of North Macedonia. The main areas of research are social science, including educational system, economy, law and human rights. The staff from the Institute is involved in many national and international projects as a researchers and trainers as well. The staff engaged at the Institute, are 22 in total. Most of them are PhD holders (10), then MSci (8) and BSci (4). Organizational structure of the Institute is consist of Scientific Board, as a professional and managing body and Director as a legal representative of the Institute. The Institute’s work is financed by project grands and commercial activities from research work, consultancy and trainings for the business entities.
Тhe main goal of the Institute’s work is through networking applied research in the field of economic, organizational, legal and engineering sciences, balancing them with the protection of the environment, to continuously contribute to the improvement of the needs of business in today's modern society and protection and promotion of human rights. The mission of the Institute is nurturing and strengthening the research capacities and skills, and fostering excellence in research by improving the quality of scientific-research practices, and in function of social growth well-being, developing regional and international scientific cooperation and improving people's lives at the local and national level.
Main activities of the Institute are: promotion and protection of human rights, democracy and implementation of different anti corruption tools in the public and private sector are also a one of the priority activities of the IARB. In that, direction the Institute has experience in delivering non-formal training courses for whistle-blowers protection and anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. Also Institute has few ongoing projects in the field of Anti-corruption and Circular economy. There are three main target groups directly concern from the Institute’s work. The first target group for the Institute’s activities in CSO sector are young people and youth workers ( 18 years +) Second target group considering the Institute’s activities for professional development and the need for adapting the labour force to the demanding market is consist of 18+ learners who need professional reskilling and upskilling The third target group for the Institute’s activities concerning the education consists of following sub-groups: - early childhood educators ( preschool education) -teachers in primary and secondary schools -pedagogues and psychologists in education -students ( 2-18 years)
The Institute can contribute to the ALF network by: - Sharing the experience of the Institute’s staff in project management, research, workshops and trainings; - Enabling networking with various organizations from Europe with which the institute cooperates, such as research institutes, NGOs, universities, business entities; -Making available its capacities for new projects, with a special focus on human rights and anti-corruption.
One of the priorities in the activity of the Institute is networking with organizations that share similar goals and vision, with the aim of joint action at the local level to promote the basic values that the Institute stands for, with a focus on human rights, non-discrimination and anti-corruption in all segments of the society. Hence, networking with organizations from ALF Network that share the values of a more inclusive and harmonious society for all will be extremely important for our work.