We invite you to join us on Sunday 29 November 2015, at 1 PM, at the Republic Square in Belgrade, to support the action against climate change! Organizer of Belgrade’s gathering, as the part of Climate March, is Intersection, action-tank that advocates for responsible research and innovation, evidence based policies and for bringing closer science and society. The organizer of this initiative on global level is Avaaz group, and local partner is “Eco Musketeers” organization.
Project “European Student Parliament” presented during Parliamentary Week
“Intersection. Centre for Science and Innovation”, with the support of Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (FEFA), within Parliamentary Week announced a new cycle of the project “European Student Parliament” to high school and university students aged between 16 and 19. The project will take place both in Serbia and in many European countries. Five finalists from each country will participate in the final debate in Manchester during Europe’s largest scientific conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in July 2016.
Presentation of European student parliament 2015/2016
We invite all high school and university parliament leaders, aged between 16 and 19, who are interested in science and learning about parliamentary procedures and debates, to join us on 21 October 2015 from 10 to 11 at the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (FEFA), Bul. Zorana Djindjica 44 in Belgrade, where we will present the structure of the debate to be held in Spring 2015.
Aleksandra Drecun at GENERA conference
Aleksandra Drecun, the president of Intersection, was invited by the project coordinator to participate in the Conference organized by GENERA project. The Conference was dedicated to gender equality in research, having special focus on women researchers in the field of physics.
Elaine Papoulias joins Intersection’s Advisory Council
Director of the Harvard University Center for European Studies Elaine Papoulias joins Intersection’s Advisory Council and discusses future activities with Dr Ana Trbovich at Harvard, on 8 September 2015.
SenZations 2015 – Internet of Things Summer School in Belgrade
SenZations, IoT Summer School will be held in Belgrade, from August 30th to September 5th 2015. Initiator and the main organizer of the School is DunavNET, company that is one of the pioneers behind the world IoT Forum and the coordinator of numerous European projects in this field, while Intersection is one of the co-organizers.
Cooperation of National Institute of Biology and Intersection
The researchers from a Marine Biology Station Piran of the Slovenian National Institute of Biology met with the representatives of Intersection on July 16th 2015. During the meeting partners agreed on the future cooperation between the two institutions, strengthening already established collaboration. We have the pleasure to share photographs of the underwater world that the team from Piran is exploring, with courtesy of the author Tihomir Makovec.
European Student Parliament 2015/2016
The detailed planning of the next round of European Student Parliament 2015/16 started in the meeting held in Berlin on 6th and 7th July 2015. The partners from all over Europe gathered together in the premises of the leading partner Wissenschaft im Dialog. In Serbia the project will be carried out by Intersection.
Science Camp “Viminacium” 2015
“Intersection. Centre for Science and Innovation” аnd partners (Archaeological Institute of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mathematical institute, Institute for Nature Protection, and Centre for New Technologies) are organizing a summer science camp for children at the Viminacium archeological site in Serbia. The camp is structured as a 3-day intensive program of workshops, completed by close to 150 schoolchildren during the summer of 2015.