The Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia has published the final list of projects financed in the next two years as part of the "Green Program of Cooperation between Science and Business." This program is intended to provide practical support for the cooperation of science and the economic sector, based on available scientific potential, as well as support for sustainable development and raising environmental quality.

Within the evaluation procedure, carried out in two stages, 20 projects were selected for financing. ICTM is proud to coordinate the project OxyRePair - Renewal of the Waste Oxygen-Evolving anodes from Hydrometallurgy and their improved Activity for Hydrogen Economy, Wastewater and Soil Remediation, with our colleague Dr. Vladimir Panić as a PI. The University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Sciences, the State University in Novi Pazar, the University of Prishtina - Faculty of Technical Sciences, and the Innovation Center of the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in Belgrade will participate as partners in the project.

ICTM will also participate as a partner in three projects: Step2PolyGreen - A step to green polyester products: Sustainable solutions for everyday objects (the lead SRO is the University of Kragujevac - Faculty of Technical Sciences in Čačak, a PI is Pavle Spasojević,  partners are Innovation Center of the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in Belgrade, ICTM and the Innovation Center of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade), STABILISE - Sustainable deployment of biomass catalytic gasification technology to increase the utilization of renewable energy in the Serbian industry (the lead SRO is Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences - University of in Belgrade, PI is Dejan Cvetinović, partners are ICTM and University of Belgrade - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) and PhytoPFAS - Phytoremediation for in situ treatment of agricultural soil and  surface waters polluted with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – research on PFOS and PFOA as model compounds (the lead SRO is the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry, PI is Vladimir Beškoski, partners are ICTM, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Physical Chemistry and University of Belgrade - Faculty of Medicine).

Congratulations to all the teams! We wish them a lot of success in the realization of the planned activities!