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Montenegro
project
Agenda
of the Opening Event
Date
and Time:
Wednesday, 3 March 2004 at 10:30
Venue:
University of Montenegro, Rectorate
Cetinjski put bb, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
| 11:00 |
Welcome |
Prof.
Ljubisa Stankovic, Rector of the University of Montenegro |
| 11:10 |
Opening
Address |
Prof.
Slobodan Backovic, Minister of Education and Science of
Montenegro |
| 11:20 |
UNESCO's
action towards Strengthening Scientific Cooperation in South
East Europe |
Mr.
Howard Moore, Director, UNESCO - ROSTE |
| 11:40 |
Solutions
for Alleviating Brain Drain in Southeastern Europe -
introduction of a pilot project and its objectives |
Ms
Stamenka Uvalic - Trumbic, Chief, Section for Access, Mobility
and Quality Assurance, Education Sector, UNESCO |
| 11:50 |
Pilot
Project of the University of Montenegro to take advantage of the
computing equipment |
Prof.
Sreten Skuletic, Project Coordinator, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, University of Montenegro |
| 12:00 |
Grid
computing as a tool to interact with the international
scientific community, one example of HP's worldwide philanthropy
programme |
Mr. John
Saw, Marketing Director and Philanthropy Manager, HP ISE
(International Sales Europe) |
| 12:10 |
Information
Technology as key enabler for cooperation and economic
development - examples from the region |
Slobodan
Radic HP Country manager, HP Serbia and Montenegro |
| 12:20 |
Summary
and Outlook |
Ms Iulia
Nechifor, Project Coordinator, UNESCO - ROSTE |
Newspapers
articles about Donation Event:
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Daily newspaper "Pobjeda":
Joint
project of the University of Montenegro, Hewlett-Packard and
UNESCO-ROSTE: “Stemming Brain-Drain”
100 Young scientists left Montenegro in the last 8 years
Podgorica – Stemming of ”brain-drain” from Montenegro is
the main objective of the joint initiative of the University of
Montenegro, Hewlett-Packard and UNESCO-ROSTE, which was
presented yesterday in Podgorica.
Hewlett-Packard provided the university with two servers, 7
computers and US$48,000 while UNESCO provided €15,000 for this
year. |
Project
coordinator and national coordinator for cooperation with UNESCO, Mr.
Sreten Sekuletic, said that the brain drain of highly educated and
highly qualified people has been a serious problem in the past 15
years.
‘‘The purpose of the project is to create a database of experts
mainly from the field of physics and computer science. This database
will be available on a special section of the university website, thus
making possible cooperation with expatriate experts willing to help
the university in developing new young experts’’ said Mr. Skuletic,
confirming that many of them have already been contacted and are
willing to cooperate.
‘‘If we manage to create the necessary working conditions, our
people that have accomplished remarkable results worldwide will be
able to visit the university and help young experts to develop their
potential.’’ said Mr. Skuletic.
He also said that young people today would not consider leaving their
country in search of better opportunities, if the necessary working
conditions and opportunities to follow lectures by eminent professors
on-line were created at home.
He added that from 1990 –1998 around 100 young experts had left the
University of Montenegro in search of better career opportunities
elsewhere. 48 left for Serbia, and 49 of them started careers abroad,
a figure that accounted for almost 20% of the University staff at that
time.
Representatives of Hewlett-Packard and UNESCO expressed hopes that
their support would result in introducing new educational programs
which could be realized in cooperation with the expatriate experts
abroad.
University rector Mr. Ljubisa Stankovic, and the minister of education
Mr.Slobodan Backovic were also present during the project
presentation.
More...
TV Shows about
Project and Donation Event:
13.03.2004: TV show "Mosaic -
National Television of Montenegro
15.03.2004: TV show "Juventas"
- National Television of
Montenegro
16.03.2004: TV show "Ask to Government"
- National Television of Montenegro
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