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Research stay and cooperation with the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana under the EIT Climate-KIC program "Pioneers into Practice"

Dr. Sanja Šešlija, a Research Associate at University of Belgrade - Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, has spent five weeks at the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia, as one of the representatives of Serbia in this year's edition of the EIT Climate-KIC program "Pioneers into Practice "implemented by Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia. The visit's central goals were directed toward the promotion of the re-use practices of agricultural waste and the foundation of positive socioeconomic effects of the scientific concept in which novel value is created from waste and polluting materials. The conducted research activities included extraction of pectin from waste apple pomace using conventional solvents, ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents (DES), and the physico-chemical characterization of isolated products. This collaboration has joined together expertise and knowledge from two renowned scientific institutions and set the ground for the future development of more sustainable production of chemicals and environmental protection.

The success of our researchers - Gold Medal for the best innovation in the field of new technologies

At the XVI International Salon of Inventions and New Technologies "New Time" in Sevastopol, the Russian Federation, in the competition of 27 registered countries, the team in which Milena Milošević and Jovanka Kovačina were engaged won the Gold Medal for the best innovation in the field of new technologies for the innovation "Eco-friendly technology for gel-coat and fireproofing material production using bio-renewable and waste materials."

The innovation is a joint work of the company Sinteza smola d.o.o., the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy and the Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy-National Institute of the Republic of Serbia. It represents the development of new ecologically and economically acceptable technologies to produce gel coatings and materials that reduce flammability based on unsaturated polyester resins from bio-renewable sources. The products can be applied in various industries (construction, mining, polymer processing, etc.). The authors of the innovation are Aleksandar Marinković, Milutin Milosavljević, Tihomir Kovačević, Jovanka Kovačina, Milena Milošević, Aleksandar Jovanović, Slobodan Petrović. The diploma is attached.

Congratulations to our colleagues, and we wish them a lot of success in their future work!

Gold Medal - SERBIA - Sevastopol 2020

Participation of ICTM in Erasmus + KA103 - European Mobility

ICTM has been participating in Erasmus programs since 2017 when the opportunity for our country to participate in these activities was opened. In the project cycle 2020/21-2021/22, our institute was allocated funds for five mobilities within the Erasmus + KA103 (European Mobility) program. These funds will finance our researchers' visits to the top scientific institutes in Sweden, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, and Croatia. A list of accepted cooperation proposals is attached.

KA103 Cooperation Proposal List for Institute for Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy 2020/2021

The success of our researchers - participation in a project approved for funding under the Special research program COVID – 19

Within Special research program COVID, Serbian Science Foundation will financially support 14 projects – 11 from biomedicine sciences, 2 from the economy, social and psychological sciences and management of complex systems and 1 from biomedical-engineering and informational technologies, with 2,000 000.0 euros of the total budget. The final list of granted projects could be found on this link.

On the one of the granted projects from University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry, with prof dr Radomir Saičić as Principal Investigator (SMART Repurposing - Small Molecule Anti-RNA-virus Therapy. Repurposing Iminosugars and Chloroquine Analogues Against COVID19), two of our colleagues from Department of Chemistry, Dr Dejan Opsenica and Sandra Šegan are engaged as participants. All information could be found on this link.