Serbia’s Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Zarko Obradovic and Italian Ambassador to Serbia Giuseppe Manco signed yesterday at the Ministry of Education, on the occasion of the First session of the Serbian-Italian Mixed Commission, the Implementation programme for scientific technological cooperation between Serbia and Italy for the period from 2013 to 2015.
According to a statement by the Ministry , the programme envisages implementation of projects in the following fields: biomedicine and biotechnology, agriculture and food technology, energy and environmental protection, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, nanotechnology and new materials, information and communication technology and applied technology for protection of cultural heritage.
Ambassador Manco underlined that the projects are of high quality and that the greatest cooperation between Serbia and Italy is precisely in the fields of science and technology.
The Mixed Commission concluded that out of all projects that were submitted to the Public invitation for co-financing joint projects between Serbia and Italy in 2013, 77 projects met the requirements.
After examining the projects submitted, and in line with the priorities established and the rules of the public invitation, 15 projects were selected that should be implemented by 31 December 2013.
In addition to Obradovic and Manco, the signing of the Implementation programme was attended by State Secretary of the Ministry of Education Radivoje Mitrovic, Counsellor for Economic and Scientific Cooperation at the Italian Embassy in Belgrade Paolo Toschi and Attaché for Science Paolo Battinelli.
Source: Serbian Government
