The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) associating Serbia to FP7 was signed on June 13, 2007 and the provisions of the above association instruments are applicable from January 1, 2007.

Serbiacan participate in all calls for proposals and compete on an equal footing with the EU Member States for research co-operation and support actions funded by FP7. As such, this agreement is an important part of the process of applying to join the EU, allowing scientists, universities and companies to create links with their counterparts across Europe and build up their scientific expertise, including in scientific fields crucial to implementing the body of EU legislation.

On March 4, 2008, the Ministry of Science opened an office for supporting FP7 proposal preparation. The office will inform institutions about details of different calls and deadlines and advice and guidance to individual Serbian scientists will be provided on regular basis. Training workshops on good proposal preparation will be organized, together with occasional courses on other relevant topics to meet the specific needs of scientists.

Contact

Phone:  + 381 11 3616 529

Fax: + 381 11 3616 529

Address:  22 - 26 Nemanjina Str., 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Contact persons:

Nada Milošević, FP7, Transport and Bilateral relations

E-mail: nada.milosevic@nauka.gov.rs

Željaka Dukić, FP7, Bilateral relations

E-mail: zeljka.dukic@nauka.gov.rs

Svetlana Bogdanović, FP7, ICT Bilateral and Multilateral relations

E-mail: svetlana.bogdanovic@nauka.gov.rs

National Contact Points for different areas to be found at the European Commission CORDIS Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=MSS_RS_FP7NCP_EN