University "Džemal Bijedić" of Mostar

DATA ABOUT RESPONDENT

Full name

Elvir Zlomušica

Name of your institution

Institutions’s country

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Institution’s address

USRC Midhat Hujdur - Hujka 88 104 Mostar Bosnia & Herzegovina

Are you responsible on behalf of the institution

Yes

Your position in the institution

Research Infrastructure Manager (administrative)

Your telephone number

+38736571691

Your email address

elvir.zlomusica@unmo.ba

Institution's website address

www.unmo.ba

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Research infrastrcture website

www.unmo.ba

Organisation / institution type of RI

University/Higher education

Main scientificdomain: Engineering

Category: Materials testing facilities

Other scientific and technological domains served by RI

Life Sciences
Environmental, Marine and Earth Sciences
Energy
Physics and Astronomy
Information and Communication Technologies, Mathematics
Engineering
Socio-economic Sciences
Humanities

RI type

Single-sited
Virtual

Short description

Dzemal Bijedic University of Mostar was founded in 1977. It is a public higher education institution. During the previous war in Mostar, University lost all its premises and equipment. However, teaching process and progress of this higher-educational institution did not intermit. It continued to work in different premises, until the University entered new facilities at the locality of USRC "Midhat Hujdur Hujka".

There were 5600 students enrolled at Dzemal Bijedic University of Mostar in the academic year of 2012/2013. There are in total 350 people involved in the teaching process from which there are 175 members of academic staff and 61 members of administration.

There are eight members of "Dzemal Bijedic" University. They are, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Civic Engineering, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Information, Technologies, Agro-Mediterranean Faculty and Faculty of Education.

University also has Centre for permanent learning, Centre for SMEs, Career Centre Mostar, CCMLL, Centre for biotechnology, International centre for philosophy as well as Institute for mechanical engineering, Institute for economic development, Institute for civil engineering, Institute for information technologies and Micro Tic and CISCO Academy

Very active role in University everyday activities have International Relation Office and Office for quality assurance.

Within the University Campus exists University Library. University library was established only three years after the very establishment of the University. During the recent war, Library was not working and in 1993 library building was burned down together with the entire library holdings. Library started working again in academic year of 1996/97 and the books were mostly donations.

Today library has around 24 000 books and the library holdings is purchased according to faculties’ curricula.

In May 2005, the Library won the status of NATO deposit library and became a member of NATO library network for southeastern Europe. In 2007 library became a member of Bosnia and Herzegovina Virtual Library.

Library activities include organization of book promotions, exhibition of monograph publications of university professors and other events. As an important component in University life there is Students’ Union.

University "Dzemal Bijedic" of Mostar has entered international cooperation with Universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, European Universities, scientific and institutions in the country and abroad, what is enhancing the visibility of our institution in the city of Mostar, Herzegovina Neretva Canton and the entire country

OPERATION AND UPGRADE OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Years in operation

6 – 10 years

STAFF, INTERNAL USERS AND EXTERNAL USERS

Approximately number of permanent scientific/engineering staff operating the RI

101 – 200

External users: average number of trainees/students per year

1001 and more

External users: estimated percentage of individual users from other countries than the country where the RI is hosted

1 % – 10%

External users: estimated percentage of individual users from private sector or industry or organisations serving industry

11% - 25%

FINANCE

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT

RESEARCH SERVICES PROVIDED TO USERS AND RESEARCHERS

Research services provided to users and researchers

Its research infrastructure is open towards external users, which is enabled through bilateral agreements and participation in different programs. There are no differences in access policy for different groups, also, foreign lecturers and researchers have access to the university.

Entry created by Elvir Zlomušica on December 10, 2013
Modified on December 13, 2013