SAIGE Project

Serbia Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project – SAIGE

This project is part of the science reform process that involves the transformation of scientific institutes through a partnership with the World Bank and the European Union under the auspices of the Ministry of Science, Technological Development, and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia.

The Institute for the Application of Nuclear Energy INEP was among the first six institutes within the SAIGE project willing to strengthen their capacities, improve their work, and more effectively join the international scientific network with the help of international expert assessment and support, training, and various types of development.

Namely, in 2020, the evaluation process of scientific research institutes was carried out, where the institutes themselves assessed their current situation and declared whether they wanted to participate in the transformation, expected to ensure a better quality of scientific research work, encourage innovative entrepreneurship, and easier access to funding sources, which is in the interest of both the growth of the Serbian economy and the strengthening of the institution itself.

The SAIGE project consists of three parts:

12 April 2022

As part of the transformation process of our Institute, Prof. Marijana Dukić-Mijatović, PhD, State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development, Marina Soković, PhD, Assistant Minister for Science, Aleksandar Belić, PhD, SAIGE project consultant, Helena Hirschenberger, PhD, and Tijana Knežević, members of the SAIGE PIU team visited our Institute.
They showed great interest and willingness to help us.

Organizational changes

During the first year of implementation of the transformation plan, at the suggestion of INOMER, which conducted the external evaluation of the Institute, several new bodies were formed in INEP, and coordinators for various activities were defined:

Transformation Team:

  • Marija Gnjatović, PhD
  • Žanka Bojić-Trbojević, PhD
  • Alisa Gruden Movsesijan, PhD
  • Sonja Šelemetjev, PhD
  • Danica Ćujić, PhD
  • Milica Jovanović Krivokuća, PhD and
  • Goran Miljuš, PhD

Technology Transfer Body:

  • Goran Miljuš, PhD
  • Jelena Gvozdenović Jeremić

Development and Innovation Body:

  • Milica Jovanović Krivokuća, PhD

Task Forces:

  1. Task Force for Scientific Infrastructure-Alisa Gruden Movsesijan, PhD, coordinator
  2. Task Force for Personal Data Protection and Information System Security-Maja Milanov and Snežana Plešinac, coordinators
  3. National Projects Coordinator-Dragana Dekanski, PhD
  4. International Projects Coordinator-Andrea Pirković, PhD

The organizational changes resulted in amendments to the organizational chart of the Institute and the formation of a new Department of the Development of Diagnostic Tests for Use in Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Food Safety.

Key results in 2022

  • a fully operational Technology Transfer Body,
  • adoption of the Rules of Procedure of the Technology Transfer Body,
  • adoption of the Rules of Intellectual Property Protection,
  • completion of an analysis of the potential of scientific results,
  • Goran Miljuš, PhD, and Jelena Gvozdenović Jeremić became members of the European Association for Technology Transfer-ASTP
  • approval of five innovation vouchers,
  • application for a technology transfer project with the Innovation Fund,
  • researchers submitted five project applications (as project managers) to the Public call for scientific and research projects within the PRIZMA Program of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, two applications as team members, and one for the Green Program,
  • ongoing preparation of a portfolio of innovations as a condition for better organization positioning.

Plans for 2023

We certainly plan to further engage consultants from various fields, invest funds in training such as biostatistics and bioinformatics, training for the application of new devices, study visits by our researchers to foreign scientific centres, and for infrastructure to create a new site and an integrated business and information system.

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