Contact:

TRG DOSITEJA OBRADOVICA 6, NOVI SAD, SERBIA
Tel: +381-214852553
Fax: +381-214750572
E-mail: bengin@uns.ac.rs
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BioSense Center was established at the University of Novi Sad with the mission to coordinate, focus and advance research in biosensing through introduction and promotion of state-of-the-art ICT solutions in agriculture, ecology, environmental protection and forestry. This is symbolized in the logo of the BioSense Center, where these four major “green” BIO-related fields are represented as petals. The ICT is in the middle and acts as a bond which holds the Center together.

The vision of the BioSense Center is to become an internationally recognized multidisciplinary research center and a key provider of advanced ICT solutions for acquisition and processing of data for natural resource management. Besides excellence in research, the BioSense Center seeks to become a respected player in the policy making, influencing the regional and national legislation-making bodies on the basis of state-of-the-art research results, thus contributing to the optimization of the agricultural production, healthy and safe environment, and wellbeing of the general population and of the region.

The Center possesses significant human and material resources: 40 experienced researchers work in the BioSense Center, all holding the PhD degree, as well as 58 researchers with MSc and BSc degrees.

The objectives of the BioSense Center are:

• To foster substantially new research directions, which could lead to scientific and technological breakthroughs.
• To develop a systematic approach to management and exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), and to serve as a lighthouse in this field to other institutions in the region.
• To be a strongpoint of technological development, eco-innovation, and knowledge & technology transfer in the region as well as in Europe, contributing to the European economy and growth.
• To attract, develop and retain the best researchers with different educational backgrounds, with an emphasis on hiring young researchers and their inclusion in state-of-the-art multi- and inter-disciplinary research.
• To provide necessary and currently not available state-of-the-art ICT solutions for agriculture, water management, forestry and environmental protection in line with EU regulations, that will help integration of Serbia into EU.
• To be a regional networking institution and to present a backbone of the regional GEOSS and national LTER (Long-Term Ecosystem Research and Monitoring in Europe) network.
• To be recognized as a preferred networking partner of other European institutions.
• To provide sustainable development of the Center through commercialization of its IPR and its research results, as well as through various national and international funding schemes,
• To foster integration of researchers from the West-Balkan Countries (WBC) into European Research Area (ERA).
• To influence the policy-makers and governmental institutions to implement best practices, to the benefit of the society and the environment.