PM Ana Brnabic met with representatives of CERN who are on a several-day visit to Serbia, the government announced. According to this, they met "to determine whether Serbia meets the conditions for full membership in this organization." Brnabic said that Serbia has worked hard over recent years on implementing economic reforms, fiscal stabilization and maintaining economic stability, adding that in the forthcoming period, the focus of the...

Council for Science-Industry Collaboration of Chamber of Commerce and Industry was founded with aim to foster academia-industry cooperation.  From its foundation, Center for Technology Transfer helped scientists’ and researchers’ work lead to new, life-improving products. Center actively works on improvement of collaboration between the University of Belgrade and industry and supports researchers and students in putting their ideas/projects into...

Ministry has published a call for admission of 1,000 young PhD students to scientific research projects financed by this Ministry. all PhD students are eligible, regardless of whether they applied earlier at their institutes, faculties or universities. The conditions that PhD students must meet are that they hold Serbian citizenship, that they are not older than 30, to be full-time students and to have a grade point average of at least 9, he...

The EU on Tuesday in Brussels opened two more chapters in its accession talks with Serbia, on public procurement and on scientific research. This took place during the EU-Serbia Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels. Chapter 25, which contains no criteria and primarily falls under national authority, was also closed immediately.

After the meeting with the Serbian prime-minister mr. Vučić, mr. Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for enlargement said that EU will support education system in Serbia with 30 million EUR in 2017. The funds will be invested in improving the infrastructure of more than 30 faculties in Serbia. His visit also confirmed that Serbia has shown significant progress in research and education processes. He said that EU members will unanimoously agree that...

Researcher working at Institute of Physics, Belgrade,  Dr. Magdalena Đorđević will be one of this year’s recipients of the European Research Council’s consolidator grant. This is the most prestigious grant awarded by the European Commission and it is bestowed upon scientists that have realized exceptional results and that are expected to be the leaders of future groundbreaking research. The ERC grant represents a great success of our colleague,...

Supported by the EURAXESS national network coordinator, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, another two Serbian universities have developed the HR strategies and submitted their candidatures for the HR Excellence in Research label, awarded by the European Commission: University of Kragujevac and University of Novi Sad. HR strategy of the University of Kragujevac can be downloaded here. Find more about HRS4R process in...

Three more negotiation chapters - on public procurement, science and research and education, culture and youth - could realistically be opened by the end of 2016, she said. "Our plan is to be completely ready and undertake the membership obligations by 2018. That means all chapters need to be opened by then, with a significant number of them also closed," Miscevic told a conference held by the Center for Contemporary Politics and the Konrad-...

Ahead of the 11th European Researchers’ night, which is being held with the European Union support symbolically in 11 towns (Belgrade, Niš, Kragujevac, Požarevac, Pirot, Petnica, Inđija, Novi Sad, Subotica, Zrenjanin, Šabac), scientists have decided to travel throughout Serbia in the Science Truck. The Science Truck is a travelling laboratory, a classroom and a workshop and discussion space. Its set up allows it to reach all parts of Serbia and...

Inscriptions etched on tiny rolls of gold and silver found alongside skeletons of people buried almost 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists in Serbia are trying to decipher magic spells etched on to tiny rolls of gold and silver that have been found alongside skeletons of humans buried almost 2,000 years ago. “The alphabet is Greek, that much we know. The language is Aramaic – it’s a Middle Eastern mystery to us,” said Miomir Korać, the chief...