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global network

Petnica Science Center is a unique institution of its kind. In spite of many local obstacles that made performing its activity more than difficult, PSC maintained its links to a number of similar programs and institutions worldwide. These connections are important because they enable the exchange of ideas, experiences, and people.

Petnica Center has hosted the annual conference of the NYEX – International network ofYouth Excellence, an association of organizations similar to Petnica Center which conduct training activities for gifted students interested in Science. Thirty participants from 15 countries took place in an interesting and intensive four-day meeting. The Conference was supported by UNESCO. More.

The Petnica Center has completed the project supported through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The project has been focused on supporting students from nonprivileged schools and families to attend science training programs in Petnica.

The Swiss Agency for International Development (SDC) supported the Petnica Annual Students Conference. At the opening ceremony, Director of the Serbian Office Mr. Olivier Bovet said that Petnica Center proved the quality and influental power of its programs.

Director of the XLab – a center for science training of gifted students in Goettingen, Germany, Mrs. Eva Maria Neher, visited the Petnica Center in order to discuss possible improvement of mutual co-operation and exchange of students.

XLab has been a host of the fifth annual NYEX Conference. Representatives of the Petnica Center took part in the Conference as well as two students from Serbia, former participants of Petnica Center’s science programmes.

Petnica Center has been presented at the annual meeting of ECSITE – European network of science centers and museums, held in Budapest, Hungary.

Links between Petnica Center and colleagues in Croatia are intensifying. Apart from students exchange with Višnjan Observatory, there are more lecturers and student assistants from Croatian universities.

Igor Stamenov, the new head of Petnica Center’s Physics Laboratory, visited the Weizmann Institute of Science and met there colleagues from their Youth Programme. After his visit, Petnica Center has sent a student to take part in the prestigious summer science camp at the WIS. (see more)

Nikola Božić, the new head of Petnica Center’s Department of Physical and Space Science, visited a number of educational and scientific institutions in Japan. More

Petnica Science Center presented its educational activities on the annual meeting of Macedonian secondary-school principals in Ohrid. The result came immidiately – a doubling of the number of participating students from this country.

The OSCE representative office in Belgrade supported a small project of the PSC on the promotion of energy saving. This will open doors for more future co-operation focused on the improvement of school-based activities.

The European Agency for Reconstruction supported Petnica Center’s new project for training school teachers in fresh and important facts about EU history, geography, economy, politics, etc.