- Project title: Biologically Active Natural Products as Potential Sources of New Drugs and Dietary Supplements
- Project number: OI172058
- Institutions participating in the project: Faculty of Sciences (Novi Sad) and Faculty of Medicine (Novi Sad)
- Status in the project: Owner
- Project leader: Neda Mimica Dukić
- Project type: Fundamental research
- Period of realization: 2011-2019
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Winning the 1st place in the Open Innovation Challenge competition
The Demo Day of the Second Cycle of Open Innovations Lab of the DA-SPACE project was held on April 18th in the Business Incubator, Novi Sad.
The winning team, Slaven Tenodi, Kristiana Zrnić and Katarina Avramović, all students at the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection under the mentorship of Nenad Grba, a research associate within the International Interreg Project DA-SPACE, won the 1st place among 9 student teams of the University of Novi Sad in the competition of young teams in solving business challenges – Open Innovation Challenge, and won the place for the international competition to be held in Ulm, Germany from May 13th to May 17th 2019. The topic of the winning team was Water and Energy Efficiency for Better Industry (WE2I).
The competition was organized by the Vojvodina ICT Cluster, University of Novi Sad and the Provincial Secretariat of Finance. The project was supported by the European Union (ERDF, IPA, ENI).
The team of the Faculty of Sciences won the second award for the best business idea in the food sector
The team of the Faculty of Sciences from Novi Sad, comprising Marija Lesjak, Ivana Beara and Natasa Simin, as well as the entrepreneur Bojana Mumovic Perusko also from Novi Sad, won the second award at the prestigious competition for the best business idea in the food sector organized by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
The competition was held on November 16th in Budapest, where, from the initial 75 teams, six best teams competed. The aim of the competition was to present your own innovative business idea in the form of a business plan and a four-minute business pitch to the members of the jury. The team from Novi Sad presented their start-up FeJuice and its innovative product fruit and vegetable juices for the prevention and treatment of anaemia. The idea about FeJuice juices came from the scientific research conducted by the team at the Faculty of Sciences. The jury judged the ideas based on their attractiveness, market demand for the product and team quality and awarded generous prize amounts to the best start-ups as a recognition and an incentive for further development of their business.
Professors Velimir Popsavin and Slobodan Marković corresponding members of SASA
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts chose 35 new members yesterday: 15 full, 14 corresponding and six international members. The members of SASA had 58 candidates presented to the Election Assembly to choose from by a secret ballot. New members of SASA from the Novi Sad branch are Prof. Dr. Slobodan Marković from the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management and Prof. Dr. Velimir Popsavin from the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection.