The document summarizes information about the Technical Faculty in Bor (TFBor) in Serbia. It provides details about: - TFBor's education modules in fields like mining, metallurgy, engineering, and business. - Its active involvement in 38 national and international research projects. - Increasing scientific output over time in terms of publications, citations, and projects. - Extensive international collaboration with over 30 universities worldwide and participation in academic networks. - Organization of international scientific conferences and publication of journals. - Examples of successful joint research projects, including a recent Visegrad project on preventing SME failures. - Ideas for future collaborative projects on Industry 4.0 and ecological footprint

1. Prof. dr Ivan Mihajlovic
December 2019
UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE
TECHNICAL FACULTY IN BOR
= www.tfbor.bg.ac.rs =
Workshop:
Joint (collaborative) research

2. • The oldest and the largest university in Serbia
• Founded in 1808
• The University comprises 31 faculties, 11 research institutes, the University
library, and 7 university centres. The faculties are organized into 4 groups:
social sciences and humanities; medical sciences; natural sciences and
mathematics; and technological sciences.
• Since its founding, the University has educated more than 330,000 BSc,
around 21,300 MSc, 29,000 specialists and 12,600 PhD
• The University has nearly 90,000 students (including around 1,700 at MSc
and PhD level students) and over 4,200 members of teaching staff.
University of
Belgrade

3. One century of copper mining and metallurgy, since 1903
THE CITY OF BOR
BOR

4. • Underground mining
• Surface mining
• Mineral processing
• Recycling and sustainable development
• Extractive metallurgy
• Metal processing
• Chemical engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Business Management
• Information Technology
MODULES at TFBor

5. Besides education, scientific research is equally
important and one of the main activities of TFB in
the frame of fundamental, development, applied
investigations and cooperation with the industry
SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH

6. National projects: TFB is presently engaged in 38 national projects,
from which: 9 (fundamental MESTD RS) + 13 (technological
development MESTD RS) + 4 (interdisciplinary III MESTD RS) and
12 projects with industry.
International projects: TFB is coordinating or participating in
number of international projects in frame of: Interreg-IPA Cross-
border Cooperation Programme Romania-Serbia; ERASMUS + KA1
mobility; bilateral projects with institutions from Japan, Croatia,
Montenegro and Slovakia; participation in one active CEEPUS
network; International VISEGRAD projects; EU PRO project
financed by UNOPS foundation … etc.
PROJECTS
(active participation in
2018/2019)
* MESTD RS – Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia

7. RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH
Number of
citations in
journals with
IF (JCR list)
Year Citations
2011 155
2012 262
2018 643
Number of
projects
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
National projects International projects Coop. with industry
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
Publications in national journals Publications in international journals
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
Citations in JCR listed journals
Number of
journal
publications

8. • Signed bilateral agreements with numerous faculties from different universities: University
of Banja Luka – BiH, University of Zenica - BiH, Central South University Chagsha - China,
University of Science and Technology Beijing - China, University of Zagreb – Croatia,
University of Genoa - Italy, University of Podgorica – Montenegro, University of Resita –
Romania, University of Ljubljana – Slovenia, University of Istanbul – Turkey, RANEPA
Academy – Russia, University of Czestochowa – Poland, University of Mining and Geology
Sofia - Bulgaria, and many others.
• The cooperation in the field of scientific research with the University of Osaka - Japan,
Masaryk University in Brno - Czech Republic, AGH in Krakow - Poland, the University of
Paris – France, University of Miskolc and Obuda University - Hungary, Technical University
in Ostrava – Czech Republic, EPFL Lausanne - Switzerland, University of Eastern Finland,
University of Trier – Germany, University of British Columbia - Canada etc.
• Participation and coordination in many joint international projects
• Participation of our teachers as visiting professors at partner universities,
• Invited lectures of our teachers at partner universities
Participation in academic networks: RESITA Network on Entrepreneurship
and Innovation, METNET, SAP University Alliances, etc.
INTERNATIONAL
COLLABORATION

9. Four scientific journals are published by TFB:
• Journal of Mining and Metallurgy
- Section A: Mining (national range) https://www.jmma.tfbor.bg.ac.rs/
- Section B: Metallurgy (since 1956, from1997 at international range, from 2007 at the
SCIe list, from 2009 at JCR list IF (2018)=0.859, 52/76 in the field of Metallurgical
Engineering http://www.jmmab.com/
• Serbian Journal of Management (since 2006, from 2014 at SJR list IF (2018) = 0.24,
from 2018 at Clarivate Emerging Sources Citation Index ) http://www.sjm06.com/
• Recycling and Sustainable Development (since 2009, national range)
https://www.rsd.tfbor.bg.ac.rs/
SCIENTIFIC
JOURNALS

10. Every year, TF Bor organizes four scientific meetings (international
conferences) :
• International October Conference on Mining and Metallurgy
https://ioc.tfbor.bg.ac.rs/
• Ecological Truth and Environmental Research
https://eco.tfbor.bg.ac.rs/
• International May Conference on Strategic Management
http://mksm.sjm06.com/
• International Mineral Processing and Recycling Conference
https://www.imprc.tfbor.bg.ac.rs/
SCIENTIFIC
MEETINGS

11. Example of
sucesfull Joint
Research
• Cooperation in International Visegrad
Projects:
– 2018 - 2019: VISEGRAD project: “HOW TO PREVENT SMEs
FROM FAILURE (Actions based on comparative analysis in
Visegrad countries and Serbia)”
– 2016: VISEGRAD project: “Environmental awareness as
universal European value”
– 2014: VISEGRAD project: “Possibilities for development of
business cluster network between SMEs from Visegrad
countries and Serbia”.

12. The most recent V4
project
• 2018-2019“HOW TO PREVENT SMEs FROM FAILURE (Actions based on comparative
analysis in Visegrad countries and Serbia)”.
– This research project is dealing with the subject on Failure of SMEs. The
reason for this research is in the fact that in the region of SEE, if entrepreneur
fail, this will be large obstacle for his/her potential new SMEs startup in the
future.
– Namely in this region if somebody fail this is very bad reference for obtaining
new loans from the bank or the financial institutions. This is opposite from the
practice in the USA or some well developed economies in the EU, where
failure is considered as good experience for future ventures.
– Considering that in SEE, entrepreneurs can not learn from their own
experience, we wanted to teach them from somebody's else failure
experiences. This is why we started to develop the measuring scale that can
evaluate and rank potential reasons for SMEs failure, both external and
internal ones. Developed measuring scale is now available as the online tool
at: http://mksm.sjm06.com/visegrad-project-2018/

13. Partners:
• University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava; web-
page of the partner institution: http://www.ucm.sk
• Óbuda University, Keleti Faculty of Business and
Management – Hungary; web-page of the partner
institution: http://uni-obuda.hu
• Tomas Bata University in Zlin – Czech Republic ;
web-page of the partner institution: www.utb.cz
• The Managers of Quality and Production
Association – Poland; web-page of the partner
institution: http://qpij.pl

14. Results:
– Online tool was developed that can be used for assessment of the health
of SMEs
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAMrug6I4mWcA9bJAGcFOf
nDdd9m8ZPaoe8E1Y0MuWajL7dw/viewform
– Report in the form of Monograph: all partners from the Visegrad countries
and project coordinator from Serbia were actively involved in preparing the
reports of the survey for publication in the Monograph: “How to prevent SMEs
from failure”. The monograph contains the chapters, prepared by all the project
participants, that are describing present situation in SMEs sectors in their regions.
Also, the reasons for SMEs failure, recognised during the survey and interviews
with the entrepreneurs are addressee here. The online version of the monograph,
is available HERE: http://media.sjm06.com/2019/05/MONOGRAPH_final.pdf
– the special issue of Serbian Journal of Management (www.sjm06.com).
Namely, considering that the project resulted with high level of quality
results, which can be additionally analysed and processed in high quality
publications, the special issue is prepared, dedicated for this project, for
November 2019:
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/sjm/issue/current/showToc

15. Ideas for future
project cooperation:
• ERASMUS + KA2: Strategic partnership:
– Project idea: Application of the Industry 4.0
concepts in development of the regional
entrepreneurial activities:
• Assessment of the level of I4.0 in local industry;
Assessment of availability of I4.0 courses in curriculums
of consortium partners universities
• Presenting the strategic plan to increase I4.0 in industry
and in university curriculums

16. Ideas for future
project cooperation:
• VISEGRAD STANDARD GRANT:
– Project idea: Ecological footprint assessment
project - Application of artificial inteligence to
predict EF:
• Developing the database of global, regional and local
EF-s
• Using the Big Data modelling approach to develop the
prediction model for EF
• Creating the GUI to be used for EF assessment