Strength2food – Agrosym 2017 conference from 5-8. October 2017
Steve Quarrie presented the Strength2Food project and various aspects of activities in Serbia in the session Rural development and agro-economy at Agrosym 2017 in front of the team of EUTA and the Ministry of Education (MPNTR). The presentation and later discussion focused on the connection between schools that prepare food in their kitchens, namely in 4 regions: Belgrade, Novi Sad, the wider area of Valjevo and Arilje; and suppliers who supply schools with food products produced in Serbia, but also [...]
Strength2Food in the headlines in Serbia again
Four primary schools in Belgrade have just suffered from an outbreak of food poisoning from a meal provided by a catering company, with 135 children suffering from severe stomach problems and seven briefly hospitalised (Tuesday, 3rd October). This has raised the issue of schools providing their own meals to ensure that health and safety standards are not compromised by awarding tenders to the caterer offering the cheapest meals, whatever the quality. Fortuitously for Strength2Food, this outbreak occurred the day that [...]
Unexpected publicity for the Strength2Food project in Serbia
During a recent visit to the village school Prota Mateja Nenadović in Brankovina near Valjevo, the school principal Milica Ostojić surprised us with the news that she arranged a television interview for us (Ratko Bojović and Steve Quarrie, BSN / EUTA) on local television, Vujić TV, Valjevo. VTV is available on cable television in Serbia, and is especially watched in the wider area of Valjevo. The interview will be broadcast on the evening of June 29 and will be available [...]
Cooperation with the Ministry of Defense of Serbia and the OSCE Mission in Serbia
On Monday, May 15, 2017, the first day of the "Project Cycle Management" training was held for the needs of personnel from the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Armed Forces. The meeting was opened by Acting Assistant Minister of Defense for Defense Policy Milan Mojsilović and Head of the OSCE Mission in Serbia Andrea Orizio, and then Ratko Bojović, Director of European Training of the EUTA Academy, held an introductory lecture on the possibilities of financing projects from EU [...]
Completed EUTA training for management and administration of EU projects
On Saturday, May 6, we finished the first two-day training for the management and administration of EU projects with a focus on Horizon 2020. Our colleagues, Prof. Goran Stojanović and Marija Spasić Šola, who have implemented a large number of EU projects (Horizon 2020, FP7, Erasmus plus, Tempus, Eureka, IPA...) shared their experiences with participants from Energoprojekt, Institute for Agriculture and Vegetables, Flight Control SCG, European Affairs Fund APV, the Republic Secretariat for Public Policies... and pointed out to them [...]
Barrila is coming to visit schools in Serbia in November this year
European Training Academy (EUTA) team leader Prof. Steve Quarrie presented our activities and progress made during the first year of the Strength2Food project at the second annual meeting in Barcelona. Steve focused on our role in WP 9.1.1, which concerns the improvement of the nutritional and gastronomic quality of school meals, and WP 9.5.1, which deals with encouraging the cooperation of local farmers in order to provide quality agricultural products for the nutritional needs of schools in Serbia. While part [...]