President Klaus Iohannis met on Friday with Romanian entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, Agerpres reports.

“During my visit to the West Coast, I have only one goal: to meet people from the Romanian community. I have no political goals here, and I wasn’t going to engage in bilateral relations, that’s more of what we do on the East Coast. (…) I wanted to meet with businessmen, research people from the Romanian community to listen to you. I have nothing to teach you, but maybe you have some lessons we need. You (…) are successful people and I am really interested to know what would have to happen for this success of yours to happen in Romania or to happen to others in Romania. I in no way want to question your motives for leaving Romania. It’s up to everyone, but certainly there are some areas where you can tell us how you think things would work better in Romania,” Iohannis said during a meeting with Romanian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

He mentioned the “Educated Romania” project.

“In my opinion, without well-educated and well-prepared youth for the labor market, for education, for research, Romania has no chance. We are a country with a serious demographic problem, the population is aging, we are getting smaller and smaller, and to stay on top we have to be more and more efficient, or, more and more efficient can only be better prepared, but it is obvious that continuing education is integration into market work, and it is clear that the goal of a very high-quality education is for every Romanian to find the right place and succeed in the work they have put in, and in the best case to love what they do,” – said Johannis.

Honorary Consul of Romania in San Francisco George Roth also took part in the event.

“I hope that the meeting with you will be a starting point for the creation of a body based on public-private partnership that will help Romanian entrepreneurs who have created successful companies, developed technologies or have good results in future research. to the Bay Area, in Silicon Valley, with the help of those who are here to succeed in globalizing their companies and access significant funding. Many countries have the following models: Canada, the Czech Republic, Israel, Belgium, France, Germany, Bulgaria. Unfortunately, Romania is not,” said Georg Roth.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, President Klaus Iohannis led a delegation that participated in the high-level segment of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. On Thursday and Friday, the head of state visited San Francisco.

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