Renewable energy, chemical engineering, genetics, but also studies on methods for freezing food, forestation systems and protection of typical products. These are just some of the subjects being studied by the delegation of researchers from the Province of Vojvidina - all belonging to the most prestigious scientific institutions in Novi Sad - on a mission in the Italian region to get a closer look at the Friuli-Venezia Giulia model for science and businesses: an event promoted by Informest in collaboration with AREA Science Park and the Centre of Molecular Biomedicine.

The Vice Chairman of Informest Silvia Acerbi said: "This initiative anticipates the launch of a true ' week of research and innovation' in Novi Sad, which Informest will organize sometime in the next few months, again in collaboration with AREA Science Park and the Centre of Molecular Biomedicine.

Thanks to this project, financed by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region, for the first time innovative companies and leading players in technological and industrial research in our region will be given the chance to make presentations to the public, scientific institutions and the corporate system in Vojvodina, which, let us not forget, is the most highly developed and dynamic region of Serbia."

"Opening the AREA Science Park to the five Serbian researchers, all active in the field of outstanding research and technological development, is a significant step in the project to establish a framework of technical and economic collaboration between Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the most highly developed area in Serbia", Gabriele Gatti, Director of Strategic Planning for the Consortium, said. "With this significant intervention of direction and guidance, AREA Science Park aims to transfer not only the vision of targeted research for industrial purposes, but also the way in which relations are managed between the scientific community and the economic and productive fabric and organized and valorised in the name of innovation".

"It is essential for the growth of a young economy" the Regional Councillor in charge of International and Community Relations, Federica Seganti, said, "to aim for technological and scientific development, and for this reason the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region is a leading partner for emerging and economically reactive companies in Vojvodina: the sharing of intense scientific activity that is happening at such a high level in our area and in particular at AREA Science Park in Trieste is also an excellent opportunity for our companies. We have therefore to provide incentives and promote protocols of cooperation as we work as an intermediary for a country with new economic potential".

Vojvodina has devised a very ambitious, long-term scientific and technological development plan, focused on certain strategic sectors, such as renewable energy and biotechnology, and similarly to specifications for collaboration and support, such as the creation of a regional system of innovation, mobility and the exchange of researchers and technological transfer for companies.