Unexpected publicity for Strength2Food in Serbia
During a recent visit to the rural school OŠ Prota Mateja Nenadović in Brankovina, near Valjevo, the school director, Milica Ostojić, surprised us with the news that she had arranged a television interview for us (Ratko Bojovic and Steve Quarrie, BSN/EUTA) at the local television station, VTV, Regional Television Valjevo. VTV is available on cable in Serbia and is widely-watched in the Valjevo area. The interview is to be broadcast on 28th June during prime-time evening viewing, and will be Read more
Cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and the OSCE Mission to Serbia
The first day of training course "Project Cycle Management" for the needs of the staff of the Ministry of Defense and the Army of Serbia was held on Monday 15 May 2017. The event was opened by Assistant of Minister for Defense Mr. Milan Mojsilović and Head of the OSCE Mission in Serbia Mr. Andrea Oricio, and after that Mr. Ratko Bojovic, director of the training academy what, gave an introductory lecture on the EU funding opportunities. Mr. Mojsilović stressed Read more
First EU project management and administration course completed
On Saturday 06 May EUTA completed the first two-day training course for EU project management and administration focusing on Horizon 2020. Our colleagues prof. Goran Stojanovic and Marija Spasic Sola, who have implemented a large number of EU projects (Horizon 2020 FP7, plus Erasmus, Tempus, Eureka, IPA ...) shared their experiences with participants from Energoprojekt, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, ATC SCG, European Affairs Fund of AP Vojvodina, Republic Secretariat for public policy ... and focused on the main Read more
Barrila first visit to schools in Serbia in November this year
EUTA’s team leader Prof Steve Quarrie presented our activities and progress we made during first year of Strength2Food project on 2nd annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Steve focused on our role in WP 9.1.1 which is improvement of the nutritional and gastronomic qualities of school meals and WP 9.5.1, stimulating local farmer’s cooperation for school meals procurement in Serbia. Biggest attention and most of our discussion was focused on the provision of educational resources by other partners and the Barilla’s Read more
Student team strengthens Strength2Food
Steve Quarrie, the team leader of BSN, now called European Training Academy (EUTA), has recruited a team of PhD students for Strength2Food, who are eager to take part in an international research project and to start collecting and analysing real data. In total, Strength2Food has now acquired 18 young researchers, past, present and future PhD students from both Belgrade and Novi Sad, who will focus on aspects of the WP9.1 school meals pilot scheme in Serbia. Working in groups of Read more