D01L04 G Djordjevic - Regional Networking as a Tool for Joint Research, Education and Capacity Building Activities in Basic and Engineering Sciences

Regional Networking as a Tool for Joint Research, Education and Capacity Building Activities in Basic and Engineering Sciences - a SEENET-MTP Experience and Perspective - Goran Djordjevic, University of Nis, SERBIA in cooperation with Radu Constantinescu, University of Craiova, ROMANIA EBES, Nis, Serbia, 18-21 February, 2010

Introduction and Justification
Initiative for the SEENET-MTP NETWORK: University of Nis
First step: UNESCO-ROSTE - sponsored BALKAN WORKSHOP BW2003 " Mathematical, Theoretical and Phenomenological Challenges Beyond the Standard Model: Perspectives of Balkans Collaboration " (Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, August 29 - September 3, 2003)
Structure Development 2004 - 2009
16(17) institutions from 8 countries in the region joined the Network
11 partner institutions all over the world
about 200 individual members

Cankaya University Ankara, Turkey Astron. Observ. Belgrade, Serbia Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia Fac. Physics Univ. Belgrade, Serbia N.I.P.N.E. Bucharest, Romania Univ.Craiova Romania Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey Dept. Physics Univ. Kragujevac Serbia Dept.Physics Univ. Nis, Serbia Inst. for Nucl. Research and Nuclear Energy Sofia, Bulgaria Sect. of Nucl.& Part. Physics Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki Greece Dept. Math. Phys.&Comp. Sc. , School of Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece West Univ. Timisoara, Romania Dept. Theor. Physics Univ. Zagreb,Croatia Network nodes

Partner Institutions
Department of Physics & Astronomy , The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimor , USA
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Banja Luka , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Department of Physics , Buffalo Unversity , Buffalo, USA
Institute of Applied Physics, Chisinau , Republic of Moldova
Mathematics Department, Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal
Department of Theoretical Physics (F-1), Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana , Slovenia
Lab 170, ITEP, Moscow , Russia
Sring Theory Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich , Germany
Algebraic Structures in Field Theory Group, CBPF, Rio de Janeiro , Brasil
Theoretical Physics Department, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia , Bulgaria
Particle Physics Group, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna , Austria
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Warwick, Warwick , UK

The Main Objectives and Aims
Co-operation among faculties of science, research institutions and individual scientists in South-East Europe
Joint scientific and research activities in the region
Support capacity building in science and technology by initiating new approaches to teaching physics and sciences
Promote exchange of students and encourage communication between gifted pupils
Support establishment of local and regional centres of excellence in physics and mathematics.

Main supporters of the Network :
UNESCO-ROSTE (BRESCE), Venice, Italy
IBSP program UNESCO Paris, France
Other supporters :
ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Germany
DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
CEI – Central European Initaitive
ESF – European Science Foundation through Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity Network
EPS - European Physical Society
IAMP - International Association of Mathematical Physics
Max Planck Institute for Physics, and Ludwig-Maximillians-University, Munih, Germany

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President of the Representative Committee and the Network
Prof Dr Radu Constantinescu, Craiova, Romania

Executive Committee Boyka Aneva INRNE Sofia, Bulgaria Goran Djordjevic Faculty of Sciences, University of Nis Nis, Serbia Executive Director Tonguc Rador TBC Department of Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Marijan Milekovic
University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
Argyris Nicolaidis Section of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece Mihai Visinescu Department of Theoretical Physics, National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Bucharest, Romania

Ilja Dorsner
Faculty of Science, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Representative Committee (RC)
Each of 16(17) Network nodes - represented by one person
Included in preparation and implementation of the Network activities
Relation between all Committees is precised by the Terms of references accepted in November 2005
Last meeting – SSSCP2009, Nis, Serbia, April 3 rd , 2009
One institution from Moldova should be accepted to join the Network soon.

Scientific-Advisory Committee (SAC)
Consists of (currently 17) outstanding and leading international researchers both from the SEE region and elsewhere in the world
The main responsibilities:
consideration of research project proposals submitted by the nodes
to recommend promising research topics of high international interest
support of the activities and participation in the events
supporting bilateral and multilateral co-operation between the SAC members’ home institutions and the SEENET-MTP

Main Results and Activities
Mobilty program:
About 100 exchanges in the region (2005-2009),
in average 20 per year
Duration of visits: 5-7 days
3 student fellowships
Network meetings: 14 meetings in 5 years, about 700 participants
Publication-Network Proceedings and Abstract books: about 15 issues, 3 International Monographs
Research: Numerous joint papers with acknowledgements to UNESCO for support, partially or even fully based on collaboration during exchanges
SEENET-MTP web portal became one of the most popular source of information concerning MTP in our region:
Promotion of science in particular physics (main activities in Serbia):
40 lectures and 2 books
Special class for high school students with special interests in sciences, Nis, Serbia, www.pmf.ni.ac.yu/f_odeljenje

Network Meetings 2003-2009
BW2003 - Mathematical, Theoretical and Phenomenological Challenges Beyond the Standard Model (Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia)
BW2005 - II Southeastern European Workshop: Challenges Beyond the Standard Model (Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia)
QM2005 - Quantum Models on Noncommutative and Deformed Spaces (Nis, Serbia)
QFTHS2006 - 5 th International School & Workshop – Quantum Field Theory & Hamiltonian Systems (Calimanesti, Romania)
STMP2006 - Selected Topic in Modern Physics (Nis, Serbia)
MMP2006 - International School on Modern Trends in Mathematical Physics (Sofia, Bulgaria)
SQ2007 - New methods in string theory and quantization (Nis. Serbia)
SQIQC07 - School Of Quantum Information And Quantum Computation (Kragujevac, Serbia)
BW2007 - III Southeastern European Workshop: Challenges Beyond the Standard Model (Kladovo, Serbia)
MMP2008 - II International School on Modern Trends in Mathematical Physics (Varna, Bulgaria)
NTST2008 – New Trends in Science and Technology (Ankara, Turkey)
SSSCP2009 - Spring School on Strings, Cosmology and Particles (Belgrade-Nis, Serbia)

Publications related to the Network events

``Mediana`` - Roman Emperor Constantine Residence, Naissus - Nis,

Expected Results and Outcomes
Self-sustained Balkan/South-East European Research and Education Network in Physics and Mathematics
Reinforce and extend the already established mobility for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students
Joint successful projects in European framework, as FP7
Reinforced interests for science in high schools by promoting activities as “Science and Society”.
South East European Countries in Mathematics and Physics
Map of the top research fields and top research organizations following the publication records from 2000-2010
Mobility Program in 2010
School & Workshop in Calimanesti, Romania, May 2010 and final meeting on Database for this phase of the project
SSSCP2009-2013, From Science to the Cultural Networking…?

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