EUREKA in Serbia
Snežana Omić
Enhancing transnational research & innovation
cooperation in Danube Region:
Joint EUREKA - Danube-INCO.NET workshop
11-12 December 2014 Vienna
EUREKA and Serbia
• Membership in 2002
• Ministry of Education, Science and
Technological Development
• High Level Group Representative
• Prof. dr Branko Bugarski, Assistant Minister
• National Project Coordinator
• Snežana Omić, Senior Advisor
Statistics
• Total No of projects: 87
• Total investment 219.89 ME
• Ongoing projects 22 and 36 organizations:
• 15 SME’s, 10 Universities, 6 institutes, 3 large companies, 2
others
• Technological fields:
• ICT 36.9%
• new materials 19%
• biotechnologies 15.5%
Funding scheme in Serbia
• Public sources - Financial plan of the Ministry of
Education, Science and Technological Development
• 0.45 ME in 2013, 0.23 ME in 2014
• Public Call is open during the whole year
• Decision making process: 3 - 4 times/per year
Funding scheme in Serbia
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Innovative and R&D projects
All Eureka technological fields
Duration of the project up to 3 years
Grants up to 50% of total projects costs
Max. for project/per year 50 000 EUR
Eligible application for funding-Consortia of
Universities/Institutes/Innovative organizations with at
least one Serbian company
Evaluation
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National
Individual/per project
Based on Eureka Project Assessment
Methodology (PAM)
Monitoring
• Project reports consisted of:
• Technological and
• Financial reports
• every 6 months
E! Danube Region Experience
• E! 6742 WINEREST - Sustainable And
Innovative Use Of Wastes From Grape And
Fruit Processing (2012-2016)
• Serbia, Czech Republic and Montenegro
Experiences
• Serbia is represented in TAFTIE by
European Innovation Fund of Serbia
• No experience with E! bi/multilateral calls
• Positive experience with E! bilateral Info
day and Brokerage event with Slovenia
Serbia and E!DI Call 2015
• Serbia recognize the importance of
collaboration in Danube Region
• Intention to participate in Joint E!DI Call
2015
• EUREKA projects
• Bottom-up approach
• All technological/scientific fields
Call dissemination tools
• Websites:
• Ministry of Education, Science and Technological
Development www.mpn.gov.rs
• Center for Promotion of Science www.cpn.rs
• Horizon 2020 Portal in Serbia:
www.horizont2020.rs
• Regular Info days/Horizon 2020/
International Cooperation Programmes
• Social media
NCP Serbia
Thank you for your attention
Snežana Omić
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development
Phone: +381 11 3616 589
E-mail: snezana.omic@mpn.gov.rs