University of Novi Sad – Faculty of Agriculture

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THE AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE OF VOJVODINA

• the northern province of Serbia – 24 % of its territory

• population about 2,320,000 inhabitants

• capital Novi Sad

• “breadbasket of Europe”

•80% of its territory - a fertile plain, covered with fields of wheat, maize, sugar beet, sunflower, soybean and other industrial plants and other field crops

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•Novi Sad - capital of the Vojvodina province

• Second largest city in Serbia

• population – 350,000 inhabitants

• industrial, cultural, scientific, educational and

administrative centre of Vojvodina

• first written documents date back to 1694

• within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in 1748, Novi Sad

was granted the status of a free city

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•Second largest university in Serbia•founded 1960. •Only state University in Vojvodina region (7 state universities in Serbia)•14 faculties (9 in Novi Sad) •F. of Philosophy •F. of Agriculture•F. of Law•F. of Technology•F. of Technical Sciences, •F. of Medicine•F. of Sciences•Academy of Arts •F. ofSport and Physical Education •F. of Economics in Subotica•F. of Civil Engineering, Subotica •Teachers' Training Faculty in Hungarian, Subotica• "Mihajlo Pupin" Technical F., Zrenjanin• Faculty of Education, Sombor

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University Campus – 7 faculties, student dormitories, teaching assistant dormitory, sports fields and facilities

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Central Rectorate Building6900m2

Amphitheatre, lecture halls, University Club, Central Library, Student parliament, central

university services, Rector’s Office…

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Students ca. 46000Teaching Staff 2900Non-teaching staff 1150TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO OBTAINED PhD - more than 2700

283 study programs – BA, MA, PhD

DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS ACROSS FACULTIES

"MIHAJLO PUPIN TECHNICAL FACULTY"

7%

FACULTY OF SCIENCES11%

ACADEMY OF ARTS2%

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

2%

FACULTY OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES

19%

FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

2%

FACULTY OF LAW12%

FACULTY OF SPORT AND PHYSICAL

EDUCATION3%

FACULTY OF MEDICINE8%

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

12%

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE

8%

FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY

10%

FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY

3%

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Research and project

TEMPUSOngoing-25

Coordinating-5

ERASMUSOngoing-2

FP7Ongoing: 15

COST, IPA, NATO, SCOPES, BILATERAL PROJECTS, EUREKA

More than 150 national projects and many projects with the industry

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The Faculty of Agriculture

• the oldest faculty within the

University -founded 1954

• Address: Trg Dositeja Obradovića 8

• 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia• dean@polj.ns.ac.yu• http://polj.uns.ac.rs

Facts and figures

Students -3340Teaching Staff-226 Non-teaching staff-170

Graduated students-8374Ing. of agr.-1006Spec. studies 110Master-241MSc-903PhD- 695

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The Organization of the Faculty

Dean’s Office

Departments

Chairs Laboratories

Experimental Stations

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EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS (4)

•For practical training and research, to gain scientific and experimental experience •The Faculty experimental Fields cover 400 ha

- Experimental Station for Viticulture, Sremski Karlovci- Experimental Station for Fruit Growing, Rimski Šančevi- Center for Sheep and Poultry breeding, Temerin- Guskov salas, legacy of Prof. Lazara Stojković, Ph.D.

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Faculty departments (8)

● Department for field and vegetable crops

● Department for animal husbandry

● Department for fruit growing and viticulture

● Department for agricultural engineering

● Department for phytomedicine and environmental

protection

● Department for water management

● Department for agricultural economics

● Department for veterinary medicine

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The academic studies are organised on three levels-4+1+3:

1) Undergraduate (8 semesters, 240 ECTS)2) Graduated-Master (2 semesters, 60 ECTS)3) Integrated (10 semesters, 300 ECTS)4) Doctoral (6 semesters, 180 ECTS)

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1) Undergraduate Academic Studies (13)

•Crop Science•Animal Science•Fruit Science and Viticulture•Phytomedicine•Agricultural Engineering•Water Management•Agricultural Economics•Landscape Architecture•Horticulture•Agrotourism and Rural Development•Agricultural Ecology and Environmental Protection •Organic Agriculture

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2) Graduate Studies – Master Studies (16)

• Field Plant Growing (five modules: 1. Field Crop Growing; 2. Vegetable Crop Growing; 3. Fodder Plant Growing; 4. Irrigation of Agricultural Crops; 5. Agricultural Meteorology) • Soil and Plant • Genetics, Plant Breeding and Seed Science• Organic Agriculture • Animal Science • Fruit and Vine Growing (two modules: 1. Fruit Science and 2. Viticulture)• Phytomedicine (five modules: 1. Phytopharmacy, 2. Entomology, 3. Phytopathology, 4. Herbology, 5. Agricultural, Veterinary and Medicinal Zoology) • Water Management • Agricultural Engineering• Agricultural Economics• Horticulture• Agricultural Water Management• Agricultural Extension Service• Landscape Architecture• Biotechnology Management There are also master programs raised as a result of Tempus projects:

•Water Management-LOLAQUA•Agricultural Extension Service

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3. Integrated Academic Studies - Veterinary Medicine

4. Doctoral Studies (4)• Agronomy • Animal Husbandry• Agricultural Economics • Veterinary Medicine

First students of Graduate Studies – Master's Studies enrolled in the 2006/2007, and first students of Doctoral Studies were enrolled in the academic 2008/009

Project-curricula development TEMPUS – 3 running ERASMUS MUNDUS– 2 UNS (action 2)

Norway HERD -3 running

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RESEARCH

National projects supported by

• the MESTD Serbia (Total 40 ongoing p., 11 FANS coor.)• the PSSTD Vojvodina (24 ong., 16 FANS coor.)• Other PS (4 ong./ coor.)

International projects supported by int. organizations and foundations (EU)-FP7 -3 ongoing (1-associate partner)• SEERA.NET (FP7) – 5 ongoing (1 FANS coor.)• COST – 4 ongoing• IPA – 4 ongoing• Norway HERD -3 ongoing• Bilateral projects …

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CaSA Kick off meeting, Belgrade FABU January 30 – 31. 2014

Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency EACEA CALL EACEA N° 35/2012 TEMPUS IV – SIXTH CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Building Capacity of Serbian Agricultural Education to link with Society, CaSA

544072-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-RS-TEMPUS-SMHES (2013 – 4604 / 001 - 001)

Role of University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture in CaSA

9.1. Adopting a dissemination plan and identifying target groups for dissemination9.2. Designing and maintaining the project web-site 9.3. Organizing of other dissemination and visibility activities: briefings, presentations, press conferences and other events9.4. Publishing and disseminating training manuals and guidelines9.5. Dissemination at Final conference in NS

4.3. Development of classical (f2f) vocational courses for AMS teachers and agronomists in extension service 4.4. Development of web based vocational courses for AMS teachers and agronomists in extension service

... other CaSA activities

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