Center for Product Development

Center for Biosystems

Center for Innovation and Business Development

Project aim: The EU-funded eLTER PPP project is opening an important chapter in the development of a permanent infrastructure for long-term ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological research.
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About the project: The European Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) is an essential component of the worldwide efforts to better understand ecosystems. A major constituent of LTER is its research infrastructure – eLTER RI – which is expected to operate in 2027. The preparatory phase project will enable the significant improvement of LTER’s research infrastructure in areas such as organisation, business model and legal basis. This implies reconciling the interests of currently over 160 institutions from 19 countries that support the scientific concept as infrastructure users.
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The eLTER PPP project will pave the way for a new kind of transdisciplinary research on ecosystems.

Vladan Minić

Željko Bajić obtains MSc in Computer science at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad in 2012. He works as a senior associate at BioSense institute since 2018. His expertise covers full stack technologies mostly based on Java programming language and Web development. He participates in several national and international research projects.

Željko Bajić

Vladan Minić is a Manager of the Product Development Center at BioSense Institute. He received an M.Sc. degree in the Faculty of Technical Sciences in 2007. His career started at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, as a member of BioSense Center. When the Center grew into an Institute, he moved to a newly established institution. He participates in many national and international projects within BioSense Institute. His main research interests are wireless sensor networks and image processing, but he also performed the duties of a system administrator. His expertise covers Linux and Windows system; Web development – WordPress, Joomla, PHP, HTML; Programming languages: Python. C/C++ (OpenCV), Matlab; Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, SQLite; GIS tools: ArcGIS, QGIS. He also likes hardware and embedded systems.

Mina Bjelica works as a junior associate in the product development center at the BioSense Institute. She graduated in 2019 at the University of Novi Sad, at the Faculty of Science on Information Technology department. At BioSense, she is currently working on the development and maintenance of several web applications in the programming language for backend – Java (EJB and Spring framework), for frontend: TypeScript (Angular framework), AngularJS framework, HTML, CSS, languages for datebase: SQL and HQL, and servers: wildfly and tomcat.

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Mina Bjelica

Milica Milovanović works as junior associate at BioSense Institute since October 2019. She received a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia in 2019 in the area of Information technologies. Currently, her main responsibility within the BioSense Institute is developing web applications. She is developing backend in Java and Python frameworks (Spring, EJB and Django). For frontend part of applications she is working with Angular and AngularJS. She also works with databases and servers (Wildfly and Tomcat).

Milica Milovanović

Ms. Dragana Petković (F) works as a Project Manager at the Business Development Department at BioSense Institute and as the coordinator of BioSense Accelerator for early-stage agri-tech startups. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. She is the co-founder of the Coworking Association of Serbia, one of the founders and former executive director of Startit, leading IT and startup support organization in Serbia. Previously she worked as a consultant on various entrepreneurial ecosystem development projects with GIZ and Port of Belgrade, and she worked as a mentor and consultant for startups in different industries.

Dragana Petković

Sanja Brdar is a senior researcher and head of the Centre for Information Technologies at BioSense Institute. She received a PhD degree from the University of Novi Sad in 2016. Prior to starting her PhD studies, she spent two years working in the software industry with a major in databases design and development. In 2010 she was awarded a ten-month Basileus fellowship for joining the Bioinformatics Laboratory at University of Ljubljana which set the foundations for the PhD thesis on data/knowledge fusion in bioinformatics. Currently, she is actively involved in many projects including H2020 Antares, Dragon, Bestmap and Flexigrobots and teaches two master level courses at Faculty of Sciences. Her research interests include machine learning, explainable AI and bioinformatics. She works on ensemble methods, data fusion, clustering, and predictive modelling with applications in biology, agriculture, environmental sciences and health. She enjoys participating in worldwide data science challenges and with the team of researchers made significant results: placed third in Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (2012), finalist of Orange, France, Data for Development Challenge (2013), finalist/winner/third place of Syngenta Crop Challenge (2016, 2017, 2019) and finalist of UNDP Depopulation challenge (2020).

Sanja Brdar

eLTER PPP

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 871126.   


Horizon 2020

BioSense participates in a range of pan-European initiatives that aim to centralise environmental data coming from various regions, sources and institutions. Such a database would provide researchers, government institutions and NGOs precious information about the state of ecosystems around Europe along with an insight on how they are changing in time.

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Environmental and ecological data is very heterogeneous. It encompasses logs from sensors, expert observations, photos from smartphones and UAVs, lab analyses and others. Individual data from one source or one region provides little information, as it cannot be analysed in a wider context. Also, data is usually kept at individual institutions separately, which poses further hurdles for comprehensive analysis and directly contradicts the EU principles of open science.

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For these reasons, we participate in a suite of European projects where we are developing a platform for deposition of environmental and ecological data. The platforms facilitates networking between European institutions and a collaborative approach to tackling the problems of climate change, global warming, habitat loss and altered competitive relationships within flora and fauna.

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Ecology Platforms

eLTER PPP- eLTER preparatory phase project

Centar za razvoj proizvoda

Centar za Biosisteme

Centar za inovacije i razvoj poslovanja

Cilj projekta: Projekat eLTER PPP otvara važno poglavlje u razvoju trajne naučne infrastrukture za dugoročni ekosistem, kritičnu zonu i društveno -ekološka istraživanja.
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O projektu: Evropska dugoročna istraživanja ekosistema (LTER) suštinska su komponenta svetskih napora za bolje razumevanje ekosistema. Glavni sastojak LTER-a je njegova istraživačka infrastruktura &#8211; eLTER RI &#8211; za koju se očekuje da će raditi 2027. godine. Projekat pripremne faze omogućiće značajno poboljšanje istraživačke infrastrukture LTER-a u oblastima kao što su organizacija, poslovni model i pravna osnova. To podrazumeva pomirenje interesa trenutno preko 160 institucija iz 19 zemalja koje podržavaju naučni koncept kao korisnici infrastrukture.
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Projekat eLTER JPP otvoriće put novoj vrsti transdisciplinarnih istraživanja ekosistema.
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Željko Bajić je masterirao 2012. godine na Prirodno matematičkom fakultetu u Novom Sadu. Na Biosense institutu radi kao stariji saradnik. Bavi se programiranjem na svim nivoima uglavnom bazirano na Java programskom jeziku i raznim web tehnologijama. Aktivno učestvuje na nekoliko nacionalnih i međunarodnih projekata.

Vladan Minić je menadžer Centra za razvoj proizvoda na Institutu BioSens. Zvanje Master elektrotehnike i računarstva je stekao na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu 2007 godine. Karijeru je započeo u BioSens centru pri istom fakultetu. Kada je centar prerastao u Institut, prelazi u novoosnovanu instituciju. Učestvovao je u brojnim domaćim i internacionalnim projektima u okviru BioSensa. Glavna interesovanja su mu vezana za bežične senzorske mreže, obradu slike, ali je obavljao i poslove sistem administratora. Njegova ekspertiza pokriva Linux i Windows sisteme; web razvoj - WordPress, Joomla, PHP, HTML; programski jezici: Python. C/C++ (OpenCV), Matlab; baze podataka: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, SQLite; GIS alati: ArcGIS, QGIS. Takođe je zaljubljenik u hardware i embedded sisteme.

Mina Bjelica radi kao mlađi saradnik u centru za razvoj proizvoda na BioSense Institutu. Diplomirala je 2019. godine na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu, na Prirodno – matematičkom fakultetu, na smeru Informacione tehnologije. U BioSensu trenutno radi na razvoju i održavanju nekoliko web aplikacija u programskom jeziku Java (EJB I Spring okruženja) za backend, za frontend koristi jezike: TypeScript (Angular okruženje), AngularJS okruženje, HTML, CSS, jezike koje koristi za baze podataka su: SQL i HQL, i servere: wildfly i tomcat.

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Milica Milovanovic radi kao mlađi saradnik u BioSense Institutu. Diplomirala je 2019. godine Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu na Prirodno-Matematičkom fakultetu, na smeru Informacione tehnologije. Na institutu trenutno radi na razvijanju web aplikacija. Backend implementira u Java i Python okruženjima (Spring, EJB i Django). Za frontend koristi Angular i AngularJS. Takođe radi sa bazama podataka i serverima (Wildfly i Tomcat).

Dragana Petković je menadžerka projekata na Institutu BioSens u Novom Sadu i koordinatorka BioSens Akceleratora za agri-tech startape u ranoj fazi. Diplomirala je na Fakultetu političkih nauka u Beogradu. Jedan je od osnivača Coworking Asocijacije Srbije, osnivač i nekadašnja izvršna direktorka Startita, vodeće organizacije za podršku IT i startap zajednici u Srbiji. Radila je kao nezavisna konsultantkinja na brojim projektima za razvoj startap ekosistema i preduzetništva, u okviru GIZ-a i Luke Beograd. Ima višegodišnje iskustvo u mentorstvu i konsaltingu za startape u različitim industrijama.

Dr Sanja Brdar je naučni saradnik i rukovodilac Centra za informacione tehnologije na Institutu BioSens. Doktorirala je na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu 2016. Pre početka doktorata provela je dve godine u softverskoj kompaniji u timu za razvoj baza podataka. Desetomesečnu Basileus stipendiju za istražvački boravak u Laboratoriji za bioinformatiku na Univerzitetu u Ljubljani dobila je 2010. godine i time postavila osnove za doktorat u oblasti fuzije podataka/znanja u bioinformatici. Aktivno je uključena u mnoge projekte, uključujući H2020 Antares, Dragon, Bestmap i Flekigrobots i predavač je na dva master predmeta na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu, smer Nauka o podacima. Njena istraživačka interesovanja uključuju mašinsko učenje, objašnjivu veštačku inteligenciju i bioinformatiku. Radi na ansambalskim metodama, fuziji podataka, klasterizaciji i prediktivnom modelovanju sa primenom u biologiji, poljoprivredi, životnoj sredini i javnom zdravlju. Učesnica je na svetskim izazovima iz nauke o podacima i sa timom istraživača postigla je značajne rezultate: treće mesto na Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (2012), finalista Orange France, Data for Development Challenge (2013), finalista / pobednik / treće mesto na Singenta Crop Challenge (2016, 2017, 2019) i finalista UNDP izazova depopulacije Srbije (2020).

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Ovaj projekat je finansiran od strane Evropske Unije, iz programa za Istraživanje i Inovacije-
 Horizont 2020, pod sporazumom o grantu broj 871126.   



Horizont 2020

BioSens učestvuje u raznim panevropskim inicijativama kojima je cilj da centralizuju podatke o životnoj sredini koji dolaze iz različitih regiona, izvora i institucija. Takva baza podataka pružila bi istraživačima, vladinim institucijama i nevladinim organizacijama dragocene informacije o stanju ekosistema širom Evrope, kao i uvid u to kako se oni vremenom menjaju.

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Ekološki podaci su vrlo heterogeni. Obuhvataju zapise sa senzora, stručna zapažanja, fotografije sa pametnih telefona i dronova, laboratorijske analize i druge. Pojedinačni podaci iz jednog izvora ili jednog regiona pružaju malo informacija, jer se ne mogu analizirati u širem kontekstu. Takođe, podaci se obično čuvaju u pojedinačnim institucijama odvojeno, što predstavlja dodatne prepreke za sveobuhvatnu analizu i direktno je u suprotnosti sa principima otvorene nauke EU.

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Iz tih razloga učestvujemo u nizu evropskih projekata gde razvijamo platformu za čuvanje podataka o životnoj sredini i ekologiji. Platforme olakšavaju umrežavanje između evropskih institucija i zajednički pristup rešavanju problema klimatskih promena, globalnog zagrevanja, gubitka staništa i izmenjenih odnosa unutar flore i faune.

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