Tempus CAREERS

Project CareerS is focused on development of career guidance in higher education as an integral part of development of system of career guidance in Serbia. Specific objectives of project are: Development of Program of Career Information, Guidance and Education aiming to increase youth employability, Enabling wider accessibility and variety of programs in Career guidance at Higher Education Institutions, Raising the level of recognizing importance of Career Guidance by the policy makers and other stake holders and Development of Career Guidance Programme for Youth and Methodology for CGC centres at Serbian HE institution.

Through this project, we will try to contribute to the implementation of certain measures and activities of the National Strategy of career guidance and counselling which are primarily related to students. The document itself represents an important strategic framework and a platform for institutionalization, sustainability and further development and promotion of CGC in Serbia. Readiness of the State to be more actively involved in dealing with career guidance system and the establishment of centres of the state universities that work since 2006. represent a suitable basis to integrate “bottom-up” and “top-down” processes in order to strengthen links between policy and practice in the area of career guidance.

Direct benefit of the project will have students, universities, academic staff, employers and policy makers.

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Tempus CONGRAD

 The CONGRAD project’s wider objective is to enable higher education institutions (HEIs) in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina to continuously conduct graduate surveys for the purpose of enhancing study offerings and facilitating permanent modernisation processes.
CONGRAD is expected to contribute to the improvement of institutional self-evaluation processes by collecting systematic and reliable information on the links between study offerings and subsequent employment of graduates, as well as enable the evidence-based evaluation of higher education reforms and curricular changes in the last decade. Taking into account previous study conditions and the occupational career of graduates, CONGRAD aims for a general insight in country specific conditions of the transition from higher education to labour market, and shall enable partner country HEIs to make evidence-based strategic decisions.

Tempus SIGMUS

The basic idea of SIGMUS project is to strengthen the role of students in governance and management at universities across Serbia, in keeping with the Bologna declaration. The project is one of the national priorities in the area of structural reforms in Serbia, which are related to the improvement of management processes at universities and development of student services.

The activities of strengthening the student representative bodies refer to planning and development of student organizations’ capacities and other student representatives.

In addition, project activities ought to encourage the development of student services across the universities in Serbia. The project results will be promoted to all target groups in Serbia, and will be primarily available to higher education institutions. Considering that the project has great national significance, it has been supported by all accredited universities in Serbia, as well as by the Ministry of Education and the National Council for Higher Education. This is the best guarantee of the sustainability of the project even after it has been completed.

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Research of opportunities to improve welding technology for micro-alloyed steels

Abstract

The subject of this project is improvement of the welding technology for micro-alloyed steels, in order to increase productivity and improve the quality of welded joints. It will be evaluated the following welding processes: a) SMAW, b) GMAW-MIG/MAG, c) FCAW-G with mixture of external shielding medium (Ar, CO2  and O2) and d) FCAW-S. In the mixtures of shielding gases the content of Ar, CO2 and O2 would be different, because the preliminary investigations executed in Fac. of Mech. Eng. in Belgrade showed that the appropriate choice of the shielding gas mixture composition can significantly affect the quality of the weld metal, and therefore the welded joint as a whole. Therefore, it is planned that the Project precisely defines the mix of shielding gases and to compare the obtained quality of welded joints with the quality of joints made by SMAW process. It was planned to made joints by FCAW-S process that is currently increasingly used worldwide in this area. It is also planned to investigate the influence of applied welding technologies on the properties of welded joints by different experimental methods: mechanical testing, metallographic examination and fractographic examination.

Digital signal processing in synthesis of information security systems

Abstract

This project is devoted to development of systems for digital signal processing which satisfy the requirements arising from new trends in information security in modern computer and communications systems. Special care will be given to the development and implementation of four classes of security systems: system for extraction of cryptographic keys from biometric signals of the iris, speech, finger prints and images of faces (KEB – Key Extraction from Biometrics), system for extraction of cryptographic keys on the basis of mutual randomness originated from the physical layer of wired and wireless communication networks (KECR – Key Extraction from Common Randomness), systems for the control of the distribution of digital content and hidden transmission of information (DDCH – Digital Distribution Control and Hiding) and system for intrusion detection in computer networks based on biologically inspired algorithms for detection of anomalies in behaviour (BIIDS – Biologically Inspired Intrusion Detection Systems). Common methodological framework for development of these systems are application of advanced signal processing methods, cryptology, steganography and biometrics, leading to a significant increase in quality and reliability of basic security services, such as secrecy, non – repudiation, authentication and integrity.