RATKO BOJOVIC is the Executive manager of the European Training Academy (EUTA) and the Balkan Security Network (BSN). In front of the BSN team participated in management and implementation of projects financed from EU programmes FP7- COMPETE and Tempus – CASA and is involved in Horizon 2020 – Strength2Food implementation. Ratko worked as Head of the analysis and monitoring team for more than 3 years, providing to the clients information on the possibilities for financing projects, especially from EU funds, as well as on the open and forecast EU Calls. Since 2010, he was engaged in the realization of more than 150 trainings for the EU project development and management in Serbia and the region. Ratko graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade.

STEVE QUARRIE is the Head of education in the European Training Academy; professor at the Faculty of Biology, Belgrade University, also a visiting Professor at the Business School, Newcastle University, UK. He has provided regular training courses for over 15 years to scientists in Europe on general skills needed to develop a successful career doing science and research, including how to write project proposals. He has extensive experience of international project coordination and management (FP4 STREP EGRAM, FP6 WATERWEB, FP7 CAREBREED) and has written more than 10 successful EU-funded projects, with a success rate in writing research (FP and H2020) projects around 60%. Steve has been a proposal evaluator for the EC.

GORDANA VLAHOVIC is a guest lecturer at EUTA. Gordana works as the Head of International Relations Office at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia and is responsible for coordinating activities on EU programmes Horizon 2020, FP7, Erasmus Plus, IPA. Main activities and expertise related to her work refer to consultancy on EU funding for research and education, advising on administrative procedures and contractual issues, guidance on choosing thematic priorities and instruments, training and assistance in proposal writing, assistance in partner search and policy making.

RICHARD SIMMONS is the Senior Expert at EUTA and Senior Lecturer in Social and Public Policy in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Stirling University and director of advanced PhD training in applied social research. His research concerns the nature of human co-operation and the development of productive social and economic outcomes through human organization. This includes research in Serbia on agricultural supply-chain development through producer associations and co-operatives, conducted with the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade. He has extensive experience of project management and co-ordination through a number of projects funded in the UK and Serbia by the Economic and Social Research Council, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, Carnegie Foundation, Single Regeneration Budget, Scottish Government, Care Inspectorate, and NHS. He has published in a wide range of leading journals, such as Social Policy and Administration, Policy and Politics, Public Policy and Administration, Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics and the Review of Social Economy.

ZORICA MITROVIC is the Head of administration and finance at EUTA with more than ten years of professional level experience in finance. During the last sixth years she gained experience with Serbian, Balkan and Global capital markets, working as Portfolio manager in InterCapital, Belgrade, brokerage house and financial analyst in Citadel Financial Advisory Belgrade. Prior to working as Portfolio manager, Zorica had spent four years in Unicredit bank, Belgrade. She was responsible for High Net worth individuals in Private banking division and currently working in the Deposit Insurance Agency. Zorica graduated from Belgrade University, Faculty of Organizational Sciences in 2007 and holds a portfolio manager license, granted by the Securities Commission of the Republic of Serbia, since 2011. She is in EUTA team for more than five years managing our project administration and finance, including writing and preparing of business plans, cost-benefit analysis…

SOFIJA PEKIC QUARRIE member of the Commission for accreditation and quality assurance (CAQA) during the period 2012-2018. Contact person for CAQA in ENQA in the same period. As a member of CAQA working group she participated in drafting changes of national standards for accreditation and quality assurance as well as the guidelines for their implementation. Expertise in the implementation of national standards in the fields of natural and techical sciences as well as implementation of European QA standards (ESG). ENQA expert for the evaluation of QA agencies. Member of ENQA board 2017-2018 when she participated in scrutinizing ENQA panel reports in the process of evaluating QA agencies. She has managed the whole process of CAQA evaluation by ENQA during both evaluation occasions in 2012 and 2017: from the preparation of self-evaluation reports to organising panel site visits and communications with the panel and ENQA secretariat. Retired professor of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade and dean of the Faculty 2000-2003.