Research in Montenegro and plans for future development - Ministry of Science of Montenegro - CERN Indico

Ministry of Science of
             Montenegro

Research in Montenegro and plans
     for future development
              Dr. Sanja Damjanovic
               Minister of Science

                                              Kosovo

                                                 Macedonia

 17th IPPOG Meeting FAIR-GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

Montenegro

- Montenegro renewed its independence in 2006, about 620 000 inhabitants
- Total area 13 812 km2 (population density 45/km2)
- Capital and largest city Podgorica (~200 000 inhabitants)
- Montenegrin Adriatic coast 295 km long, 75 km beaches with ancient old towns
- 5 National parks, 3 UNESCO World Heritage sites

Montenegro is a member of:
- United Nations (UN)
- Oranization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
  (OSCE)
- Council of Europe (CoE)
- North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) as of June 5, 2017

Montenegro is a candidate country for EU membership
(32 negotiation chapters opened out of 33 in total;
 3 provisionally closed)

Northern -mountain region

                            Central region

                                             Southern-sea region

MONTENEGRO in the International Research Scene

Montenegro - membership in the most important international organizations
 - United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO))
- - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- - International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
- - NATO programme Science for Peace and Security (NATO SpS)

Montenegro participates in the most important EU research and innovation
programmes (R&I):
- H2020    - Framework Programme for R&I Horizon 2020
- COST   - European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- EUREKA - Pan-European network for market-oriented industrial R&D
- IPA    - Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance

COST – European Cooperation in Science
and Technology

Strong increase of participation of the
Montenegrin scientists in COST Actions

Out of presently running 240 COST
Actions, Montenegrin teams participate
in 87 COST Actions

Research Capacity in Montenegro – Human Resources
          Number of researchers by field and gender

Humanities        111          144

     Social             210           139

Agricultural 29 29
                                                                     M
  Medicine              211                  272
                                                                     F
  Technical              242            134

    Natural       123          122

              0         100     200    300         400   500   600

Research (headcount) by field of science and gender, 2015
Total no. of researchers HC: 1766

Highest number of researchers in medical science;
Highest intensity of R&D work in technical and natural science

Smart Specialization Strategy S3.me (2019-2024)
             Montenegrin Strategic Dirctions

Sustainable Agriculture             Energy              Sustainable and Health
 and Food Value Chain     and Sustainable Environment          Tourism

Internationalization
Strengthening R&I capacity through Internationalization
 Team up with large infrastructures, eg.
              EIROFORUM: CERN, EMBL, EMBO, ESA….

Joining international research projects opens possibility of transferring
knowledge, accessing new technologies, networking, boosting
participation in the EU H2020 program, starting new companies
 important for all countries
 but small countries don’t even have an alternative

               full membership

                           International networking

Montenegro on International Map

 Team up with large infrastructures eg. CERN, EMBL, EMBO, ….

Montenegro member of CMS/CERN since 2017

Internationalization
   We need to train our young people in the best environment

Montenegro on                                          Strengthening R&I
international                                          capacity through
scientific map                                         internationalization

                                              CMS team of young people

                           Young people
                           interested to
                           collaborate with
                           EMBL and EMBO

Teaming up with international teams - Mobility

 Bilateral Agreements (presently running projects)

Enhancing Expertise and Outreach

             Dissemination & Communication

                          & Technologies
                              Innovation

                                                Education
 Research

      Training & Networking & Capacitance building

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Montenegro@CERN

Four Summer Students per year – two paid by CERN,
two paid by Ministry of Science of Montenegro

art@CMS @ Science Festival in Montenegro
      great thanks to Michael Hoch, creator of art@CMS
Long Tradition in organizing Science Festivals in Montenegro, open for public

                                                                        2017

 Video available under:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vflW-Pf7vg

Science&Art@Montenegro

Video available under: https://youtu.be/UUnBDYhiSlk

Since 2017 Montenegro takes part in
    International Masterclasses
                 2017 – Masterclass locally organized
                 with the external help from Serbian
                 scientists – Exercises CMS experiment

                 2018 – Masterclass locally organized
                 with partial help of external Serbian
                 scientists; Exercises ATLAS experiment

                 2019 – Masterclass locally organized
                 without any external help
                 Exercises ALICE experiment

            Video available under:
            https://www.facebook.com/MinistarstvoNaukeCG/videos/
            680085599115642/

Since 2017 Montenegro takes part at
               International Masterclasses

2017 – Masterclass locally       2018 – Masterclass locally       2019 – Masterclass locally
organized with the external      organized with partial help of   organized without any
help from Serbian scientists –   external Serbian scientists      external help; Exercises
Exercises CMS experiment         Exercises ATLAS experiment       ALICE experiment

Since 2018 Montenegro full member of EMBL and EMBO

2017 – Delegation of EMBL and EMBO
@Montenegro                             2018 – Delegation of EMBL and EMBO
                                        @Montenegro; presenting programmes
                                        for research and students

                                     2019 – Delegation of EMBO@Montenegro
                                     Presenting fellowship programs of EMBO

                                        In September 2019 ‘EMBL Summer School’
                                        for the first time in Montenegro

South East European International Institute for
Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST, http://seeiist.eu)
About 500 patients per year to be treated as needed for a population of 20M.
In parallel, 50% of the beam time dedicated to biomedical research with multi-ion
sources beyond presently used proton and carbon-ions making the SEEIIST project
unique in the world

                                 Example: HIT Heidelberg

Candidates Members for the SEEIIST: DoI signed by eight parties: Albania, Bosnian
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo*, The FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
and Slovenia. Croatia agreed ‘ad referendum’, Greece is presently an observer

Core of the SEEIIST: Facility for Tumour Therapy and Biomedical
             Research with Protons and Heavier Ions
  Time line of the SEEIIST Project
                  2019:                                          2028:
                   Start of the Design Study Phase              First patient treatments
                   Application for Design-Study-
                     Call INFRADEV-01-2019-2020
                  2020/21:
                   Selection of the site
                   Application for the
                     ESFRI Road Map           2023:
                                              Start construction
                                              of the Facility

2017-2018:              For SEEIIST up to 200 MEUR required, guaranteeing
Concept Studies         competitivity in Europe. Multiple sources of financing
                        necessary: EU Structural and cohesion funds, IPA funds,
                        some contributions from member-states, other funds
                        We also hope for the support by the Berlin Process

Montenegro submitted a Letter of Interest
to become a member of the IPPOG

                    Institute for Marine Biology