Scientific collaboration between
Italy and Serbia is strenghtening. Anna Maria Bernini, Minister
of University and Research, and Jelena Begović, Serbian Minister
of Science, Technological Development and Innovation,
inaugurated the second Scientific Forum between the two
countries in Area Science Park.
Over 100 Italian and Serbian researchers participated. After
a bilateral meeting, Bernini and Begovic signed a joint
declaration confirming "the importance of cooperation in the
fields of research and innovation, on the basis of the MoU
signed in Belgrade in 2023, and the promotion of researcher
mobility, support for joint research programmes, and bilateral
scientific events."
Those established today at the Italy-Serbia forum "are
strengthened terms: we already started last year in Belgrade
with a collaboration agreement that brought 83 projects with 2
million euros - one million from the Serbian side and one
million from the Italian side - to be evaluated on our table,
and we will evaluate them as soon as possible to ensure that
there will be results when we meet in Belgrade on January 31st,"
said Bernini.
"The second Italy-Serbia Forum held today in Area Science
Park was an important moment of exchange and confrontation
between experts and policy makers in the scientific sector of
the two countries, an opportunity to share innovative research,
explore new collaborations in scientific and technological
fields of greatest interest, such as biomedicine and artificial
intelligence." This was said by Area Science Park President
Caterina Petrillo, who hosted the second Science Forum between
the two countries. "Today's appointment continues the path
started in March 2023 in Belgrade when Area Science Park
participated in the first edition of the Science Forum. Then in
December 2023," he recalled, "on the occasion of the Innovation
Forum, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed, again in the
capital, between Area Science Park and the science and
technology parks of Belgrade, Niš, Čačak and Novi Sad, as a
further development of a well-established cooperation with
Serbia that began in 2015 for technical assistance activities in
the fields of technology transfer and economic development. The
goal is "to pool scientific and technological capacities, such
as those generated by research infrastructures and technology
platforms, for example on topics such as life sciences, energy
transition and innovative materials," he concluded.
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