Minister Damjanović presents SEEIIST project at international conference on research infrastructure in Vienna

Minister of Science of Montenegro Sanja Damjanović presented the project of the International Institute for Sustainable Technology in South East Europe, which envisions the implementation of Hadron's cancer therapy with research in biomedicine at the International Conference for Research Infrastructures 2018 in Vienna, at the invitation of Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research of Austria.

The ICRI 2018 Conference is organised within the Austrian Presidency of the European Union, and attended by Commissioner for Science and Innovation of the European Commission Carlos Moedas and Director-General for Research and Innovation in the Jean-Eric Paquet.

In her presentation, Minister Damjanović pointed out that the SEE region needs a major scientific research infrastructure that would trigger scientific excellence, prevent the outflow of talents, stimulate innovation, mobility, internationalisation and knowledge transfer, as well as other complementary technologies. All of these are ways of improving socio-economic conditions and enable young people an attractive environment in which they want to work and create in their own country. This project, added Minister Damjanović, although fifth in Europe, will be unique in the world because it predicts that 50% of the time will be spent researching, which will attract researchers from Western Europe.

The establishment of the SEEIIST project also contributes to the alleviation of tensions and better cooperation between the countries of the region, as demonstrated in the case of the SESAME project in Jordan, recognised as the true example of "Science for Peace". In addition, the project would enable this region to regain the scientific excellence that existed in the past and accelerate the technological development of countries, Minister Damjanović concluded.