The project is conceived as an answer to the needs of the economy, as the lack of engineers is noticeable in Slovenia, and in Europe as well, he explains. The initiators and the participating companies are thus visiting pupils of grammar schools, and trying to excite an interest in them for further education in the field of engineering and natural sciences. A few weeks ago the President of Slovenia Borut Pahor took honorary patronage over the initiators of the Inženirji bomo! (We will be engineers!) project and its participating high schools.
In his address during the awarding of the honorary patronage, President Pahor stressed that the young must not be attracted to technical studies and natural sciences by stressing their employment opportunities, but through inspiration and stimulation. "The young people don't have enough information on the possibilities, and the prospects engineering professions have to offer, while companies have difficulty in finding adequate personnel," claims professor Bešter. He also warns that the wrong decisions made in Slovenia during the last two decades created the impression that there was no need for development, or engineering professions, as if it were expected we would all concentrate on finances, and trade.
Bešter says that grammar school graduates less often chose natural sciences and engineering, especially the number of female graduates choosing those fields is too small. Slovenia was left behind, therefore it is a logical step to give as much information as possible regarding opportunities for study and career in these field to grammar school pupils. The pupils of secondary schools from engineering or natural science fields have already made their decisions, and need less additional information. But all pupils of secondary schools need more motivation to encourage their innovativeness, creativity, and enterprising spirit; which the school system and young people in general lack.

He continues: "Our falling behind has been caused by erroneous decisions made in Slovenia during the last 20 years. Thus a prevailing opinion was created that engineering professions were redundant, as everybody would work in the field of finances, and trade. And yet still today persons in charge claim that railways and transport are the most important; although we are living in the information era, and are turning into a society of knowledge and innovativeness, we act as if we were living in the 19th century! Those countries which had avoided such mistakes were much less influenced by the economic crisis, which improved the welfare of their people."