Srdjan Verbic

BELGRADE - The 8th Science Festival entitled "Everything is Possible" was opened at Expo Center in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Danube Rectors' Conference (DRC), whose mission is to improve education and communication between universities in the region, is being held in Belgrade for the first time, from November 5 to 7.

University infrastructure revamped thanks to EU donation

BELGRADE -- The European Union backed the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development with a EUR 30 million donation.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Education Srdjan Verbic told participants of the Danube Business Forum in Belgrade on Monday that Serbian students could volunteer in the projects that are to be realized as part of the Danube Strategy.

Teaching unions in Serbia have said they will stage a protest against austerity measures on Belgrade's Nikola Pasic Square on Wednesday after failing to reach a compromise on wages with the Education Minister, Srdjan Verbic.

BELGRADE - Education ministers and their deputies from Southeastern Europe, including Serbia's Education Minister Srdjan Verbic, gathered in Tirana on Monday for a conference organised by the European Training Foundation (ETF) and sponsored by the Albanian government led by Prime Minister Edi Rama.

BELGRADE - The Jevremovac Botanical Garden was officially opened on Friday after two years of reconstruction bankrolled with EU and national funds - the unique natural asset situated in downtown Belgrade, dubbed "the lungs of the city," will now be open to visitors.

BELGRADE - Agreements on the first part of the Japanese government's aid for Serbia's flood recovery, worth EUR 166,418 in total, were signed at the Serbian government building on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic promised on Thursday that Albanian students in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja, southern part of central Serbia, will get free textbooks in their mother tongue by September 1, but at the same time he called on Albanians to fulfil their obligation toward the Republic of Serbia and start paying their electricity bills.

BELGRADE - Amendments to the law on higher education will facilitate speedier recognition of foreign university degrees, and establish a more precise procedure for revoking a university's accreditation, Serbia's Education Minister Srdjan Verbic said on Friday.