News archive - ICEIM-MANU − The Research Center for Energy, Informatics and Materials at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Research Center for Energy, Informatics and Materials (ICEIM ) at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU) was founded in 1986, with the aim to initiate, coordinate and perform fundamental and applied research in certain priority areas of its domain. Today, the Center’s permanent staff consists of six academicians, one professor and four research assistants.

In the past two decades, ICEIM’s permanent researches have published more than 450 papers in international scientific journals, as well as a large number of contributions in monographs and proceedings of national and international conferences. Up to now, 75 research projects have been realised in the Center, by numerous national and international collaborators.

Currently, ICEIM is involved in eleven international and nine national projects. The international projects are financed by foreign funds, i.e. FP6 and FP7, COST, the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as by foreign governments. On the ground of success in the European Commission’s open calls, ICEIM is accepted as a center of excellence, fulfilling the criteria of the World Inter-Academy Council.

The international affirmation of ICEIM is also confirmed by the fact that the Center is a national focal point in the International Database of the IAEA and of the World Solar Process of UNESCO. Furthermore, it is the domicile of the Macedonian National Committee of the World Energy Council and a member of the International Network of Centers for Sustainable Development. Since 2005, the Center has also been the seat of the multi-disciplinary EU-COST Action “Electrical Neuronal Oscillations and Cognition” with participation of more than 80 scientific institutions from 27 countries from all continents, being the first European project of this kind managed outside the EU.

On the national level, the Center is a founder and organiser of the scientific forum “Challenges and Shadows of Science” that is periodically held in MANU. In order to enhance the inclusion of Macedonian scientists in the European research programmes, the Center, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science, has organised several workshops targeted towards the preparation of projects for the open calls of EU research programmes. Furthermore, the “Young Scientist of the Year” prize is awarded for the sixth time this year.

Geographical focus
  • Republic of North Macedonia

Entry created by Katarina Rohsmann on November 11, 2010
Modified on November 11, 2010