The project ‘Vojvodina and Bács-Kiskun Night Sky as a Novel Touristic Attraction’, with the acronym VoBaNISTA, is financed by the Interreg-IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme Hungary-Serbia. The participants in the project are research associates and professors at the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad, as well as the members of Astronomical Societies of Novi Sad and Backa Palanka, together with the Baja Astronomical Observatory Foundation, Hungary.

The aim of the project is to use untouched potential of the region Vojvodina – Bac-Kiskun which is the quality of the night sky, natural reserves and cultural heritage and to develop them into new tourist attractions of the region. Namely, the project will be realised through building a unique mobile observatory which will enable tourists to observe astronomical objects – planets, star clusters and galaxies as well as the phenomena on the sun, our mother star, mainly from the protected nature reserve areas, as well as in urban areas. This calls for the collaboration with tourist organizations and the participation in festivals and other events which are relevant for tourism in the region. Workshops will also be organised with the aim of pointing out the problem of light pollution, as well as several astronomical camps in Fruska Gora.