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RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT Five Years in Serbia

Tijana ProdanovicUniversity of Novi Sad

What is Researchers’Night?

• A global European family event dedicated to popular science and fun learning.

• Meeting real scientists and interacting with them in different ways

• Showing what researchers really do for society

• Showing also the human side of researchers• Researchers' Nights are organized since 2005.

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What is Researchers’Night?

• One night, several hundred cities all over Europe and beyond

• Last Friday in September• Over 1 million visitors in 2012• Supported by the European Commission as

part of the Marie Curie Actions

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Researchers’Night in Serbia

• First time in 2010 in Novi Sad – project title: All We are Researchers (AWARE)

• Since then the number of cities grows– 2011 (Subotica, Zrenjanin, Novi Sad, Belgrade)– 2012 (Zrenjanin, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Nis)– 2013 (Subotica, Zrenjanin, Novi Sad, Belgrade and

several rural areas)– 2014 (Subotica, Zrenjanin, Novi Sad, Pancevo, Belgrade,

Nis, Sabac, Kragujevac, Jagodina, Cuprija )• More than one project in SerbiaOctober 9th, 2014 Tijana Prodanovic - prodanvc@df.uns.ac.rs 4

IN THE BEGINNING …

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2010ONE CITY (NOVI SAD)ONE LOCATION9000 VISITORS45 EXPERIMENTS163 RESEARCHERS

ORGANIZER: FACULTY OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES, NOVI SAD

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… ALL WE ARE RESEARCHERS…

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2011THREE CITIES (SUBOTICA, ZRENJANIN, NOVI SAD, BELGRADE)MANY LOCATIONS21000 VISITORS (IN SU,ZR,NS ONLY)MORE THAN 70 EXPERIMENTS300 RESEARCHERS

ORGANIZERS: FACULTY OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES, FACULTY OF SCIENCES, NOVI SAD , CENTRE FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE , CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART PROMOTION BELGRADE

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GROWING…

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2012FOUR CITIES (ZRENJANIN, NOVI SAD, BELGRADE, NIS)MANY LOCATIONS58000 VISITORSMORE THAN 150 EXPERIMENTSABOUT 400 RESEARCHERS

ORGANIZERS: FACULTY OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES, FACULTY OF SCIENCES, NOVI SAD, CENTRE FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE , CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART PROMOTION BELGRADE, UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE (SINFONICOM)

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AND GROWING…

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2013THREE CITIES (SUBOTICA, ZRENJANIN, NOVI SAD)MANY LOCATIONS21000 VISITORS (IN SU, ZR, NS ONLY)MORE THAN 70 EXPERIMENTS250 RESEARCHERS

ORGANIZERS: FACULTY OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES, FACULTY OF SCIENCES, NOVI SAD, CENTRE FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE , CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART PROMOTION BELGRADE, UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE (SINFONICOM)

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2014 - 2 YEAR PROJECT TEN CITIES (SUBOTICA, ZRENJANIN, NOVI SAD, PANCEVO, SABAC, BELGRADE, NIS, KRAGUJEVAC, JAGODINA, CUPRIJA )MANY LOCATIONS35000 VISITORS (IN SU, ZR, NS,PA ONLY)MOST SUCCESSFUL BY NOW

ORGANIZERS: FACULTY OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES, FACULTY OF SCIENCES, NOVI SAD, CENTRE FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE , CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ART PROMOTION BELGRADE, UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE (SINFONICOM)

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5TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY…

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Next year Europian Reserachers’ Night celebrates 10th birthday

Come to visit us and join in!