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The project was funded by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the People’s Republic of China.

During the four-day stay in Beijing, several working meetings with colleagues from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were organized. The main topics of these meetings were possibilities of further cooperation through the implementation of new scientific projects and the publication of joint scientific papers in international journals. In addition, a particular segment was an introduction to the organization and working methods of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Through the professional exhibition, the members of our research team had the opportunity to learn more about the development and activities of this Institute from its establishment in 1940 to the present day.

After Beijing, the visit to China continued with the realization of fieldwork in the Sichuan province, the capital of Chengdu and Dujiangyan. During the fieldwork, our colleagues had the opportunity to visit the Dujiangyan System, which was built about 2000 years ago for irrigation and flood protection. With expert guidance, the researchers were introduced to the construction and functioning of the oldest irrigation system in China, which is still in operation. Due to its importance, the Dujiangyan System, joint with Kincheng Mountain, is included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.

On the last day of the stay in Dujiangyan, in nearby Wenchuan, our team visited the location of the strongest recorded earthquake (7.9 MS) in China in the XXI century, which occurred on May 12, 2008. In this catastrophic earthquake, over 87,000 people died, while the economic damage was estimated at around 146 billion USD.

Date: December 30, 2023
Source: Dr. Stefan Denda, , ,

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The team of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA is one of the winners of the Public Call for funding citizen science research projects in 2023, which was announced by the Center for the Promotion of Science with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation. The project’s name is “STAY OR LEAVE – spotlight on migration In The rUral areas (RurSITU)”. The focus is on the stayers as ‘rural keepers’ who are in the spotlight, as well as ‘catching‘ the causality between individuals’ perception of rural areas, local characteristics, and the decision to stay. The scientific team members are researchers from the Geographical Institute – Marija Drobnjaković (coordinator), Milan Radovanović, Željko Bjeljac, Milena Panić and Vlasta Kokotović Kanazir. The Project will be implemented in cooperation with partners: five citizens’ associations – Women’s Association “Sačuvajmo selo” (Priboj), Rural Tourism of Serbia (Ljig), Club Ars Nova (Valjevo), Mountaineering Club “Tara” (Bajina Bašta), Center for Improvement tourism business TERRA (Užice) and the “Vuk Karadžić” Cultural Center (Loznica). Research implies the active citizen’s participation in all Project phases, with the idea that underpins visibility of positive aspects of rural life.

https://www.cpn.edu.rs/javnipoziv-gni-2023/

https://nitra.gov.rs/cir/ministarstvo/vesti/urucena-priznana-projektima-gradanskih-naucnih-istrazivana

 

Date: December 29, 2023
Source: Marija Drobnjaković

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The project was funded by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation (former Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development) of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the People’s Republic of China.

As part of the mentioned project, in the period November 25 to December 01, 2023, a group of researchers from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was in the Republic of Serbia. The delegation consisted of professors Erfu Dai (project leader), Shaohong Wu, Jiangbo Gao, and Lulu Liu (project team members). The study stay was realized as part of the project activities of the researchers from the Chinese institute engaged in this project.

During the visit of colleagues from China to our Institute, a working meeting was organized with the aim of developing further cooperation between the two institutions, publications, and future joint activities.

During the study stay of colleagues from China, fieldwork was also organized, which included a visit to the loess profiles in the Fruška Gora National Park, observation of the mega-landslides on the Belgrade-Smederevo route, as well as the visit of the geological profile Kanjon Boljetinske reke (Boljetin River Canyon) in the Đerdap National Park and Geopark, where flash flood in June 2023 occurred.

Date: December 5, 2023
Source: Dr. Stefan Denda, , ,

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Elena Leonidovna’s field of scientific interests was related to various aspects of environmental management, including geoecological as well as ecological economics, recreational, ecological, traditional environmental management, with a special interest in the regions of northern Russia, Siberia (including the Baikal region), Kamchatka, Moscow region and even Serbia.

She participated in numerous expeditions and actively engaged in scientific activities, which was reflected in publications and lectures. Elena Leonidovna is the author of more than 150 scientific papers, actively participated in several scientific research projects, including grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Geographical Society. She presented here results at Russian and international scientific conferences, including conferences in 2013 and 2015 organized by our Institute.

Elena was a dear and respected associate with whom the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SANU had a successful cooperation since 2013. On several occasions she was a participant and scientific manager of mutual scientific field researches of associates of the Lomonosov Faculty of Geography and associates of our Institute both in Serbia and in Russia.

For those associates who got to know her better, Elena was a quiet and gentle friend with a constant smile on her face that radiated kindness. We are comforted to know that her smile will forever remain in our memories, in our stories and will be the first image that appears when her name is mentioned.

We express our sincere condolences to the colleagues from the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the family and loved ones of Elena Leonidovna.

Date: November 1, 2023
Source: Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA , Belgrade, Serbia

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Milan T. Stevančević, BSc Eng of Electronics and the founder of the Belgrade School of Meteorology, a tireless researcher of nature and its laws, died in Belgrade on October 18, 2023. For more than two decades, he intensively collaborated with the Department of Physical Geography of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA. The result of that cooperation are numerous works, published in national and international scientific journals and presented at scientific meetings.

Milan Stevančević was born on September 30, 1937 in Belgrade, where he completed elementary school and high school, and graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Belgrade. In the 1970s, he was appointed head of the Group for Electromagnetic Research of the Radio Frequency Spectrum at the Federal Administration for Radio Communications of the Federal Executive Council, where he had access to the most modern measuring instruments that enabled him to carry out intensive research. Thanks to these studies, he was invited to take part in the work of the International Telecommunication Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Geneva. In 1982, after a stormy discussion, this agency adopted his document under the title: “Degradation of maximum usable sensitivity of FM and AM receivers operating in non-linear conditions”. During the eighties and nineties, he participated in the work of several international conferences and commissions (International Maritime Organisation IMO in London 1983, 1987; World Radio Conference Malaga – Torremolinos 1992; Danube Commission 1985-1995).

Milan Stevančević was also engaged in pedagogical work (as a professor at the Electrical Engineering School “Nikola Tesla” in Belgrade), as well as in music (as a trumpeter in the popular band “Amigos”). He also worked on the construction and maintenance of musical instruments and equipment (amplifiers).

However, Milan Stevančević made by far the most significant contribution in the field of natural sciences. Together with Nedeljko Todorović, a graduate meteorologist, Milan Radovanović, PhD, principal research fellow and the director of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, and Vladan Ducić, PhD, full professor of the Faculty of Geography of the University of Belgrade, he founded the Belgrade School of Meteorology. Milan Stevančević was the founder of a new scientific discipline called “Heliocentric Electromagnetic Meteorology”, which laid the foundations for a completely new approach to the study of nature. According to his research, most of the natural phenomena on our planet are under the direct influence of charged high-energy particles of solar wind. In this way, revolutionary changes in meteorology, seismology, volcanology, forest fire research, and even in medicine and agriculture were made possible. In the following years, the natural sciences will be irrevocably changed by the achievements of Milan Stevančević. The possibility of predicting natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, fires, pandemics, etc.) should be highlighted here. The results of Milan Stevančević’s research were published in 10 volumes of the Belgrade School of Meteorology in the period 2008–2019 and in the publications Theoretical Foundations of Heliocentric Electromagnetic Meteorology (2006) and Theoretical Foundations of Heliocentric Electromagnetic Seismology (2022). Most of these publications can be found at the following link: http://www.meteologos.rs/beogradska-skola-meteorologije/

Selected papers of Milan T. Stevančević, BSc Eng (scientific journals, meetings, book chapters):

Radovanović M, Stevančević M, Štrbac, D. (2003) Influence of the solar wind energy on the atmospheric processes. Geophysical Research Abstracts 5, 13963, European Geophysical Society.

Radovanović M, Stevančević M, Štrbac D. (2003) A contribution to the study of the influence of the enregy of solar wind upon the atmospheric processes. Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA 52(1), 1-18.

Stevančević M, Radovanović M, Todorović N. (2004) The possibility of application of electromagnetic method in mid term weather forecasting. In: Proceedings of the Collection of Papers EkoIst’04 Ecological Truth, Bor, Serbia, 2004, pp. 396-399.

Stevančević M, Radovanović M, Todorović N. (2006) Analysis of characteristic mistakes in the heliocentric electromagnetic long-term forecast. In: Proceedings of the “Tourist Valorisation of Tara” Theme Collection of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijic” SASA and Sport-Recreative Center Bajina Bašta, Belgrade, Serbia, 12–15 June 2006, pp. 101-110.

Stevančević M, Radovanović M, Štrbac D. (2006) Solar wind and the magnetospheric door as factor of atmospheric processes. In: Second International Conference ‘Global Changes and New Challenges of 21st Century’, 22-23 April, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 88-94.

Pereira Gomes JF, Radovanović M, Ducić V, Milenković M, Stevančević M. (2009) Wildfire in Deliblatska pescara (Serbia) – case analysis on July 24th 2007. In: Forest Fires: Detection, Suppression and Prevention, Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 89-1401 (book chapter).

Radovanović M, Stevančević M, Milijašević D, Mukherjee S, Bjeljac Ž. (2011) Astrophysical analysis of earthquake near Kraljevo (Serbia) on 3 November 2010. Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA 61(3), 1-15. DOI: 10.2298/IJGI1103001R

Radovanović MM, Milovanović BM, Pavlović MA, Radivojević AR, Stevančević MT (2013) The connection between solar wind charged particles and tornadoes: Case analysis. Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection28(1), 52-59. DOI: 10.2298/NTRP1301052R

Radovanović M, Vyklyuk Y, Jovanović A, Vuković D, Milenković M, Stevančević M, Matsiuk N. (2013) Examination of the correlations between forest fires and solar activity using Hurst index. Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA 63(3), 23-32. DOI: 10.2298/IJGI1303023R

Radovanović MM, Vyklyuk Y, Stevančević MT, Milenković MĐ, Jakovljević DM, Petrović MD, Malinović-Milićević SB, Vuković N, Vujko AĐ, Yamashkin A, Sydor P, Vuković DB, Škoda M (2019) Forest fires in Portugal – case study, 18 June 2017. Thermal Science 23(1), 73-86. DOI: 10.2298/TSCI180803251R

Date: October 31, 2023
Source: Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA

 

Four researchers from the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, Dr. Zlata Vuksanović-Macura, Dr. Dragana Miljanović, Dr. Dejan Doljak and Dr. Marko Filipović, spent one month study stay in Aalborg, Denmark, within the DASH – Deliver Safe and Social Housing project, funded by the European Union under the Programme Horizon Europe – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (number 101086488).

The study stay was realized in August 2023 as part of the secondments of researchers within the DASH project. The aim of the study visit was to learn about the social and affordable housing system in Denmark, focusing on examples from the Municipality of Aalborg and the Himmerland Housing Association. Researchers attended a series of thematic sessions related to urban regeneration and housing, cooperation between the municipality and housing associations, housing financing, housing strategies, and urban planning system. The study stay included several visits to social housing complexes in Aalborg Municipality and those managed by Himmerland Housing Association. Researchers from the Institute also participated in a three-day workshop, “Legal framework models and innovative housing policies”, organized from the 21st to 23rd of August by Aalborg University, Department of the Built Environment. At the workshop, Dr. Zlata Vuksanović-Macura presented “Social Housing in Serbia”, showcasing the housing and social housing conditions in Serbia.

The study stay also provided an opportunity for researchers from the Geographical Institute to exchange knowledge with colleagues from partner institutions on the DASH project from Portugal and Germany, who were in Aalborg at the same time.

Date: September 28, 2023
Source: Dr. Zlata Vuksanović-Macura

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More about the team and activities of the Laboratory can be found at the following link: https://farm2facts.org/who-we-are/ Special appreciation and acknowledgment to Dr. Alfonso Morales, UW-Madison for the invitation and support.

Date: August 1, 2023
Source: Dr. Marko D. Petrović

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