Center for Innovation and Business Development

Project aim: The IoF2020 project is dedicated to accelerate adoption of IoT for securing sufficient, safe and healthy food and to strengthen competitiveness of farming and food chains in Europe.
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About the project: IoF2020 will consolidate Europe’s leading position in the global IoT industry by fostering a symbiotic ecosystem of farmers, food industry, technology providers and research institutes. The IoF2020 consortium of 73 partners, led by Wageningen UR and other core partners of previous key projects such as FIWARE and IoT-A, will leverage the ecosystem and architecture that was established in those projects. The heart of the project is formed by 19 use cases grouped in 5 trials &#8211; Arable, Dairy, Fruits, Vegetables and Meat. A lean multi-actor approach focusing on user acceptability, stakeholder engagement and sustainable business models will boost technology and market readiness levels and bring end user adoption to the next stage. This development will be enhanced by an open IoT architecture and infrastructure of reusable components based on existing standards and a security and privacy framework. Anticipating vast technological developments and emerging challenges for farming and food, the four-year project stays agile through dynamic budgeting and adaptive decision-making by an implementation board of representatives from key user organizations. A 6 M€ mid-term open call will allow for testing intermediate results and extending the project with technical solutions and test sites. A coherent dissemination strategy for use case products and project learnings supported by leading user organizations will ensure a high market visibility and an increased learning curve. Thus, IoF2020 will pave the way for data-driven farming, autonomous operations, virtual food chains and personalized nutrition for European citizens.
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Milica Trajković

Aleksandra Gašić Čolić was born on the 20th of August 1988 in Novi Sad, Serbia. After finishing high school "Svetozar Markovic" in Novi Sad, she graduated from the Faculty of Law. Within the organization of the Government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, from January to July 2013, Aleksandra participated in the University program of work practice with the Protector of Citizens - Provincial Ombudsman. From September 2015 she started to work at BioSense Institute - Institute for Research and Development of Information Technologies in Biosystems, in the Secretariat of the Institute.

Aleksandra Gašić Čolić

Ms. Vladislava Ćulum joined the BioSense team in 2015. She has over 20 years of experience in financing and accounting. She has been involved in the development of strategic plans, budget planning, finance and internal controlling. She dealt with forecasting future financial trends and analyzing market trends and competitors.  After graduating high school, she continued her education at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. She is currently working as a financial – accounting analyst at Financial Department in BioSense Institute.

Vladislava Ćulum

Prof. Vesna Bengin is the co-founder of the BioSense Institute - Research and Development Institute for Information Technologies in Biosystems, which focuses on multidisciplinary, game-changing, and needs-driven research of advanced ICT technologies and its applications in biosystems, primarily agriculture. She is the coordinator of H2020 project ANTARES, ranked as the first in the most prestigious H2020 call Teaming which aims to evolve BioSense Institute into a market-oriented European Centre of research excellence. With a budget of € 30 million, ANTARES is the largest research project ever funded in the Republic of Serbia by the European Union and, besides developing institutional scientific excellence, Prof. Bengin also directly focuses on fostering the policy development and economic growth of the region, through specifically designed activities involving the policy makers and national and regional agrifood and IT sectors.

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Prof. Bengin holds the highest national degrees both in teaching and research: she is a full professor at the Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad, as well as the scientific advisor (principal research fellow) elected by the Ministry of education, science, and technology of the Republic of Serbia. She also holds the title of an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, as well as the position of a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), USA. She has been a member of the Management Board of BioSense Institute since its establishment in 2015 until today, and the Vice-president of the same Board in 2015-2019. She has served as the member of the Management Board of the Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia in 2011-2017, and as a member of many European and international professional bodies such as the General Assembly of the European Microwave Association, and the Implementation Board of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Following the invitation of the European Commission, Prof. Bengin has served as a mid-term evaluator of the entire € 300 million worth intergovernmental framework programme COST (Co-operation in Science and Technology) financed by the European Union, where she has evaluated the political, scientific, and operational aspects of the programme. She has worked as a consultant for Fonds National de la Recherche of Luxembourg in 2017, as well as for a number of research institutions in Turkey and Slovenia in 2016. Since 2019, Prof. Bengin serves as a member of UNICEF Business Advisory Board in Serbia and a consultant for UN FAO (United Nations – Food and Agriculture Organization).

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Prof. Bengin obtained her PhD in 2006 from the University of Novi Sad in the field of microelectronics, has led or participated in 8 FP7, 5 Horizon 2020 and many other international research projects, authored more than 100 scientific papers and published two books with world-renowned publishers (Cambridge University Press and John Wiley &amp; Sons). Leading multidisciplinary research with a focus on the applications, he is also an active promoter of the importance of science with a large experience in public communications.

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Prof. Bengin is the recipient of a number of national and international awards including the special award granted by the European Commission at ‘Marie Curie Actions for an Innovative Europe: Excellence, mobility and skills for researchers, the award for outstanding women in science and technology She's Mercedes awarded by the Mercedes-Benz company, and many more.
She is a mother of three and a great promoter of active involvement of women in STEM.

Vesna Bengin

Dr Radonic received a PhD in electronics in 2010 at University of Novi Sad. He authored and co-authored 2 book chapters, 30 journal papers, more than 60 conference papers, 10 technical solutions, and has more than 440 citations. Dr Radonić was the project leader in four Serbian national projects, one project financed by European Bank for Research and Development, one Bilateral project between Serbia and Slovenia, project financed by Good Food Institute, USA and WP leader in one FP7 project–InnoSense and one H2020 project–ANTARES. He participates in a number of research FP6, FP7, H2020, COST, EUREKA, IPA projects. He is a member of IEEE and MAGEO (Microwaves in Agriculture, Environment and Earth Observation) groups and was a member of Technical Program Committees of EUROCON (Computer as Tool, 2015) conference, Salamanca, Spain and Sensordevices conference 2019, Nice, France. Steering committee member of the BioSense Institute 2015-2020, and the vice president of Scientific council of the BioSense Institute 2015-2020. From 2022, he is the assistant director for science. Reviewer in different scientific journals: Scientific Reports, Lab-on-Chip, IEEE Sensors Journal, MDPI Sensors, MDPI Electronics, Sensors and Actuators B, IEEE Wireless and component letters, Electronic letters, etc. The main expertise of Dr Radonic is microfluidics, sensors development (microwave, optical, microfluidic sensors and biosensors), electronic, RF and microwave passive components (filters, coupler, diplexer, etc.), antennas and RFID systems, periodical and artificial materials, fabrication technologies, measurements and characterization.

Vasa Radonić

Snezana Djuric, Senior Research Associate, received PhD from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (Electronic) in 2013. Her research interests are bioelectronics systems, sensors, energy storage and energy harvesting, inductive systems and components.

Snežana Đurić

Slobodan Birgermajer is research associate in the Center for Sensing Technologies at the BioSense Institute. Mr. Birgermajer received his PhD in microware electronics form the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, in 2019. He is currently working on development and application of the sensors in agriculture, food industry, and environmental monitoring, and he is actively involved in many H2020 projects such as ANTARES, IPANEMA SHealty, etc. His main research interest includes microwave passive devices, photonic crystals, microfluidic sensors, and 3D and 4D printing.

Slobodan Birgermajer

Dr. Jovan Matovic is the principal scientist in BIOSENSE Institute. Dr. Matovic has a PhD in applied physics, MSc in material science and BS in mechanical engineering. Work of Dr. Matovic covers sensor and instrument design, novel materials and µ-fluidics. Dr Matovic received awards from European Space Agency for novel solution for satellite thermal management in 2004 and winning Challenge at Nature &amp; Cleveland Clinic, for novel neurosurgery instrument "Avoidance of Blood Vessels During Insertion of Medical Probes” in the amount of 30.000$ in 2012. Dr Matovic has over 1100 and citations and was project manager in multiple Austrian and EU projects i-10 index 25

Jovan Matović

Goran Kitić works at the position of the Head of the Center for Sensing Technologies within the BioSense Institute. He received a PhD degree from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia in 2016 on the subject of microwave soil moisture sensors. Goran Kitić developed experience in the field of different fabrication technologies (LTCC, thin&amp;thick film technology, microfabrication, PCB, wire bonding, machining, and 3D printing) and characterization methods (electron microscopy, EDS spectroscopy, UV/Vis spectroscopy, optical profilometry, electrical measurements). His research interests are related to the development of sensors applied in agriculture, food sector and environmental protection. Some of the developed sensor prototypes involve a multispectral sensor for plant status assessment, soil moisture sensor, a device for early mastitis detection, nitrates in water detector. Besides stated, he is heavily involved in the development of a robotic system for soil sampling and analysis. His research work resulted in seven international journal publications, and numerous papers published on international conferences. During his research career, he was involved in 13 international and national projects.

Goran Kitić

In 2009, Georges Dubourg received the engineer degree in electronics from the University of Sciences and Technologies in Bordeaux, France. Afterwards, he received his Ph.D degree in microelectronic from the University of Bordeaux in 2012. During his Ph.D thesis, he introduced a new activity in the IMS laboratory concerning organic MEMS for biosensing applications. From 2013 to 2014, he worked in the flied of microfluidic as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN) at the University of Lille, France. Then he undertook postdoctoral research in Serbia at the University of Novi Sad before taking up his current senior researcher position at BioSense Institute in which he has launched from scratch a new research activity in the field of flexible electronic and sensors. His research interests include the design, fabrication and characterization of flexible sensors and microfluidic devices for biomedical application. From 2018, Georges is project coordinator of CISTEM project (H2020‐MSCA‐RISE‐2017) which aims to develop a new generation of organ-on-chip for modeling cardiovascular diseases.

Georges Dubourg

Ms. Milica Trajkovic (F) is a certified PMI project manager professional (PMP), experienced in EU funded projects focused on Digital Agriculture and development of ICTs for AgriFood value chain. As a Head of Business Development Department, she is responsible for building new and maintaining fruitful partnership network of the Institute both with industry and academia in Serbia and across Europe. Milica manages multi-national and cross-sectoral consortia, supports Institute in new project preparations (from an idea to design and proposal establishment) and brings AgTech market trends closer to the BioSense scientists. One of her goals is to foster entrepreneurial mentality among Institutes’ employees and support them in their own entrepreneurship endeavors. In addition, she facilitates business acceleration for high-tech startups, SMEs and web entrepreneurs from the region with the main aim to bring start-up tech community closer to the AgriFood sector.

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Crnojević is the director and founder of BioSense Institute – R&amp;D institute for information technologies in biosystems, the only European Center of Excellence outside of EU. BioSense has been established in 2015 based on his idea that dates back in 2005 and the vision that information technology and biotechnology will meet in the future. Under his leadership and from only a few enthusiastic individuals BioSense has grown into respectable institution with almost 200 employees and more than 70 PhD holders. BioSense is well known as a very multidisciplinary institute which applies state-of-the-art technology like AI, robotics, nanotechnology and new materials in biosystems – agriculture, environment and medicine. Apart from excellent science BioSense Institute is very much devoted to the industrial cooperation through the creation of innovative solutions and strongly supports innovation development through accelerator activities and spin-off establishment. BioSense has given strong support to the digital transformation of the public sector and society in Serbia tthroug the development of various systems used primarily in agricultural sector.

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He is a professor of computer science at University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He studied Electrical Engineering and obtained his Ph.D. in image processing from the same university in 2004. Since then he has been involved in a research and development in the field of machine learning – nowadays popularly known as artificial intelligence. He was one of the pioneers in this field in Serbia which resulted in a number of new PhDs and various industrial projects. He acted as a director of Power, Electronics and Communications Department at Faculty of technical sciences, University of Novi Sad and served a member of the National scientific board for Electronics, Communications and Information Technology. He is a member of the National council for artificial intelligence of Republic of Serbia and Council of Europe  Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

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Prof. Dr. Crnojević is a part of the 10-Member-Group, prestigious group of experts acting as consultants to the Secretary General of United Nations in the filed of science, technology and innovation for Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG). He has published more than 100 papers in renowned journals and conferences and acted as a reviewer for some of the most eminent journals in the field. His current interests are related to the role of AI in the achievement of UN SDGs and the future of humanity.

Vladimir Crnojević

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

Dr Nataša Ljubičić (F) Research associate, received the Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, in Serbia in the field of Genetics and Plant Breeding. She holds her Master thesis with the name: ”Multivariate analysis of wheat genotypes grown on meliorated Solonjec soil”, where she investigated different plant responses through genotype/environment interaction caused by different types of soil melioration. Dr Nataša Ljubičić is a Research associate at BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research interests include using and implementing innovative and smart technology in agricultural and environmental investigations, following genotype/environment interaction, plant response within different mineral nutrition, nutrition, plant stress, phenotypic variability of the plant traits of the agricultural crops. Her investigation involved research from plant scale to large-scale evaluation with the main aim to improve agricultural production. Dr Ljubičić is a member of the EUCARPIA - European Association for Research on Plant Breeding and was involved in several Serbian national projects. She is the author and co-author of more than 50 journal and conference papers on international and national levels and 2 Technical solutions with total citations: 81; h-index: 6 (Google Scholar).

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Nataša Ljubičić

Dr Branko Sikoparija is a Principal Research Fellow at the Center for Biosystems and quality manager (ISO17025) in the Laboratory for Palynology University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences. His research focus is aerobiology and currently, he is interested in developing real-time detection and identification of bioaerosols. Branko Sikoparija is an accomplished writer and reviewer for multiple scientific research journals. Serves as Associate Editor for Aerobiologia. He coordinates the RealForAll network of automated bioaerosol monitors on the Pannonian plain. He is also an active member of the EUMETNET AutoPollen program, vice chair of the COST Action CA18226, the chair of the European Aerobiology Society Working Group for Quality Control, and principal investigator in the BREATHE project financed in the PROMIS call Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.

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Branko Šikoparija

Bojana Ivošević is working on utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for efficient monitoring of croplands, freshwaters, and terrains. She hails from a background in biology and ecology. She initiated her PhD in Kyungpook National University, South Korea, where she gained 2 years of experience with UAVs. She continued to pursue her field of interest at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her current research focus is to implement UAV technology in precision agriculture to calculate vegetation indices important for agricultural crop yield production, disease detection and crop management. She is also interested in enforcing UAVs for animal detection and counting, monitoring algae bloom, land cover classification, and seasonal effects on the ecosystems.

Bojana Ivošević

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Horizon 2020

Launch your AgTech idea!

BioSense Accelerator is an intensive 3-month program that targets early-stage AgTech startups and acts as a bridge between science and business. It is an excellent opportunity for startups to bring their bold AgTech ideas to life, grow, fast track their journey, and solve key challenges in the agrifood sector. The accelerator is the only one in the country that provides support to domestic and regional IT entrepreneurs focused on creating innovative and groundbreaking digital solutions for agriculture.
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The first batch of BioSense Accelerator started in October 2019 and over the course of three months that were jam-packed with interactive workshops and bespoke trainings, 8 teams mastered multiple skills: how to develop a business idea, define a business model, identify the needs of future users and conduct detailed analysis of the market and competition. Top-notch tech and business support, as well as guidance from industry and technology experts brought startups and their ideas to the next level. In the second batch (2020), we are joining forces with EFSE Fund and the best B2B accelerator in Europe, Startup Wise Guys.
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Besides a comprehensive support, BioSense Accelerator has given the teams a get-ready guide for fundraising, and startups that participated in the first batch raised 140K Euros over a period of six months.
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The idea of BioSense Accelerator is to boost entrepreneurial mentality in our country and subsequently, that will lead to economic growth and development. The goal is also to motivate regional IT entrepreneurs to be bold and create their own products.
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BioSense Accelerator

IoF2020 – Internet of Food and Farm 2020

Centar za inovacije i razvoj poslovanja

Cilj projekta: Projekat je posvećen ubrzavanju usvajanja najsavremenijeg koncepta uvođenja internet stvari (IoT) u domenu hrane i poljoprivrede, u cilju obezbeđivanja dovoljne, sigurne i zdrave hrane i jačanja konkurentnosti poljoprivrede i prehrambenih lanaca u Evropi.
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O projektu: IoF2020 učvršćuje vodeću poziciju Evrope u globalnoj IoT industriji negujući simbiotski ekosistem poljoprivrednika, prehrambene industrije, dobavljača tehnologija i istraživačkih instituta. Konzorcijum projekta čine 73 partnera, predvođenig Vageningen Univerzitetom i drugim partnerima prethodnih srodnih projekata, kao što su FIVARE i IoT-A. Na ovaj način maksimalno će se iskoristitu usvojena znanja, veštine i prethodno uspostavljena mreža saradnika i partnera. Centralno mesto čine 19 pilot-projekata sa preko 20.000 novih internet stvari, grupisanih u 5 oblasti &#8211; ratarstvo, mlekarstvo, voćarstvo, povrtarstvo i stočarstvo, kao što su, na primer, upravljanje preciznom poljoprivredom, nadzor krava na pašnjaku, daljinsko merenje kvaliteta mleka, logistika u voćarstvu, urbane visokotehnološe farme, sledljivost u mesnoj industriji i različiti vidovi informatičkog upravljanja u procesu poljoprivredne proizvodnje.
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Višeakterski pristup sa fokusom na korisnike, zainteresovane strane i održive poslovne modele dovešće do unapređenja tehnologije i nivoa spremnosti na tržištu. Predviđajući ogroman tehnološki razvoj i nove izazove za poljoprivredu i hranu, četvorogodišnji projekat ostaje agilan kroz dinamičko budžetiranje i prilagodljivo odlučivanje. Otvoreni poziv od 6 miliona evra u toku trajanja projekta omogućiće testiranje rezultata i proširenje projekta tehničkim rešenjima sa novim lokacijama za testiranje. Koherentna strategija diseminacije pilot-projekata obezbediće visoku vidljivost na tržištu i povećanu krivu učenja. Tako će IoF2020 otvoriti put za poljoprivredu zasnovanu na podacima, autonomnim operacijama, virtuelnim lancima ishrane i personalizovanom ishranom za evropske građane.
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Aleksandra Gašić Čolić rođena je 20. avgusta 1988. Novom Sadu, Srbija. Nakon gimnazije „Svetozar Marković“ u Novom Sadu završila je Pravni fakultet. U okviru organizacije Vlade Autonomne pokrajine Vojvodine Aleksandra je od januara do jula 2013. godine učestvovala u Univerzitetskom programu radne prakse kod Pokrajinskog ombudsmana. Od septembra 2015. godine počinje da radi u sekretarijatu Instituta BioSens – Instituta za istraživanje i razvoj informacionih tehnologija u biosistemima.

Goran Kitić je zaposlen na poziciji Rukovodioca centra za senzorske tehnologije na Institutu BioSens. Doktorirao je na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka, na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu 2016. godine na temu mikrotalasnih senzora vlažnosti zemljišta. Goran Kitić ima iskustva u oblastima raznih tehnologija fabrikacije (LTCC, debeloslojna i tankoslojna tehnologija, mikrofabrikacija, PCB, wire bonding, mašinska obrada i 3D štampa) i metoda karakterizacije (elektronska mikroskopija, EDS spektoroskopija, UV/Vis spektroskopija, optička profilometrija, električna merenja). Njegova istraživanja su u vezi sa razvojem senzora koji svoju primenu imaju u poljoprivredi, prehrambenom sektoru i zaštiti životne sredine. Neki od razvijenih prototipa senzora uključuju multispektralni senzor za utvrđivanje statusa biljaka, senzor vlažnosti zemljišta, uređaj za rano otkrivanje mastitisa, detektor nitrata u vodi. Pored navedenog, u velikoj meri je uključen u razvoj robotskog sistema za uzorkovanje i analizu zemljišta. Njegovo istraživanje je publikovano u 7 međunarodnih časopisa, i brojnim radovima objavljenim na međunarodnim konferencijama. Tokom svoje karijere, učestvovao je u 13 međunarodnih i nacionalnih projekata.

Vladislava Ćulum se pridružila timu BioSens Instituta 2015. godine. Ima preko 20 godina iskustva u finansijskim i računovodstvenim poslovima. Radila je u privredi i bila je uključena u razvoj strateških planova, planiranje budžeta, finansija i interni kontroling. Bavila se predviđanjem i analizom tržišnih trendova i konkurenata. Nakon završene srednje škole, školovanje nastavlja na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom Sadu.  Trenutno radi kao finansijsko-računovodstveni analitičar u Finansijskoj službi Instituta.

Prof. Dr Vesna Bengin je suosnivač Instituta BioSens – Istraživačko-razvojnog instituta za informacione tehnologije biosistema, koji se fokusira na multidisciplinarna naučna istraživanja naprednih informaciono-komunikacionih tehnologija i njihove primene u biosistemima, prvenstveno poljoprivredi. Ona je rukovodilac projekta ANTARES, koji je prvorangiran u najprestižnijem pozivu Evropske komisije Horizon 2020 -Teaming, a koji ima za cilj da razvije Institut BioSens u tržišno orijentisan vodeći evropski centar naučne izvrsnosti. Sa budžetom od skoro 30 miliona evra, ANTARES je najveći istraživački projekat koji je u Republici Srbiji ikada finansirala Evropska unija. Pored naučne izvrsnosti, ANTARES projekat se fokusira i na razvoj novih politika koje će podstaći napredak naučno-istraživačke zajednice u Srbiji i ekonomski rast u čitavom regionu.

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Profesorka Bengin je dobitnica najviših priznanja u nastavi i istraživanju: redovni je profesor na Odeljenju za fiziku Univerziteta u Novom Sadu, kao i naučni savetnik (glavni istraživač) kog je izabralo Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja Republike Srbije. Takođe ima titulu izvanrednog profesora na Univerzitetu Stellenbosch u Južnoj Africi, kao i poziciju gostujućeg profesora na Univerzitetu u Pensilvaniji (UPENN), SAD. Članica je Upravnog odbora Instituta BioSens od njegovog osnivanja 2015. godine do danas, i potpredsednica istog odbora 2015-2019. Bila je član Upravnog odbora Fonda za inovacije Republike Srbije u periodu 2011-2017 i članica mnogih evropskih i međunarodnih stručnih tela kao što su Generalna skupština Evropske Mikrotalasne asocijacije i Odbor za implementaciju grupe za posmatranje Zemlje (GEO).

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Po pozivu Evropske komisije, radila je i kao mid-term evaluator celokupnog intervladinog okvirnog programa COST (Co-operation in Science and Technology) finansiranog od strane Evropske komisije sa približno 300 miliona evra, u smislu procene ispunjenja političkih, naučnih i operativnih ciljeva programa. Radila je i kao konsultant za Fonds National de la Recherche iz Luksemburga 2017. godine, kao i za niz istraživačkih institucija u Turskoj i Sloveniji 2016. godine. Od 2016. profesorka Bengin je članica UNICEF-ovog poslovnog savetodavnog odbora u Srbiji i konsultant za UN FAO (Ujedinjene nacije - Organizacija za hranu i poljoprivredu).

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Doktorirala je 2006. godine na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu u oblasti elektronike i mikrotalasne tehnike, autor je preko 100 naučnih radova od čega su 32 objavljena u prestižnim međunarodnim časopisima, jednog nacionalnog patenta, kao i dve knjige objavljene kod prestižnih svetskih izdavača Cambridge University Press i John Wiley &amp; Sons. Vodila je ili učestvovala u 5 projekata iz programa Evropske Unije, Horizont2020, kao i 8 projekata iz programa FP7, uključujući projekat InnoSense kroz koji je oformila laboratoriju za nano i mikroelektroniku koja je i danas jedna od najjačih u ovoj oblasti u regionu i predstavlja osnovnu bazu naučnih istraživanja na Institutu.

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Dobitnica je većeg broja međunarodnih i domaćih nagrada i priznanja, kao što su specijalna nagrada Evropske komisije Marie Curie Actions for an Innovative Europe: Excellence, mobility and skills for researchers, nagrada za izuzetne žene u nauci i tehnologiji She's Mercedes kompanije Mercedes-Benz, Povelja Kapetan Miša Anastasijević za međunarodne naučnoistraživačke projekte i afirmaciju nauke u Srbiji i brojnih drugih.
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Dr Radonić je doktorirao iz oblasti elektronike 2010. godine na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu. Autor je 2 poglavlja u knjizi, 30 radova u naučnim časopisima, više od 60 konferencijskih radova, 10 tehničkih rešenja i ima više od 440 citata. Dr Radonić je bio rukovodilac na četiri nacionalna projekta, jednom projektu koji je finansirala Evropska banka za istraživanje i razvoj, jednom bilateralnom projektu između Srbije i Slovenije, projektu koji je finansirao Good Food Institute iz SAD-a i vođa radnog paketa u jednom FP7 projektu – Innosens i jednom H2020 – Antares. Učestvovao je u brojnim istraživačkim projektima iz programa FP6, FP7, H2020, COST, Eureka, IPA. Član je grupa IEEE i MAGEO (Mikrotalasi u poljoprivredi, životnoj sredini i posmatranju Zemlje) i član tehničkih programskih odbora konferencije EUROCON (Computer as a Tool, 2015), Salamanka, Španija i Sensodevice konferencije 2019, Nica, Francuska. Član upravnog odbora Instituta BioSense od 2015-2020 i potpredsednik Naučnog veća Instituta BioSense 2015-2020. Od 2022 obavlja funkciju pomoćnika direktora za nauku. Recenzent u mnogim naučnim časopisima: Scientific Reports, Lab-on-Chip, IEEE Sensors Journal, MDPI Sensors, MDPI Electronics, Sensors and Actuators B, IEEE Wireless and component letters, Electronic letters, etc. Oblast naučnog istraživanja dr Radonića je mikrofluidika, razvoj senzora (mikrotalasni, optički, mikrofluidni senzori i biosenzori), elektronskih, RF i mikrotalasnih pasivnih komponenti (filteri, spojnica, diplekser itd.), antena i RFID sistema, periodični i veštački materijali, tehnologije fabrikacije, merenja i karakterizacija.

Snežana Đurić, viši naučni saradnik, je doktorirala na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Energetika, elektronika i telekomunikacije (Elektronika) 2013. godine. Oblasti interesovanja su bioelektronski sistemi, senzori, skladištenje i prikupljanje energije, induktivni sistemi i komponente.

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Slobodan Birgermajer je naučni saradnik u Centru za Senzorske Tehnologije pri Institutu BioSens. Doktorat iz mikrotalasne elektronike odbranio je 2019. godine na Fakultetu Tehničkoih Nauka, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Trenutno radi na razvoju i primeni senzora u poljprivredi, prehrambenoj industriji i monitoringu životne sredine, i aktivno je uključena na više međunarodnih projekata iz poziva H2020, kao što su ANTARES, SHEALTY, IPANEMA, i drugi. Takođe, domen istraživanja obuhvata razvoj i fabrikaciju mikrotalasnih pasivnih kola, fotonskih kristala, mikrofludinih senzora, kao i 3D i 4D tehnologiju štampe.

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Dr. Matović je doktorirao u oblasti primenjene fizike, magistrirao u oblasti nauke o materijalima i diplomirao mašinstvo. Istrživački rad dr Matovića pokriva dizajn senzora i instrumenata, nove materijale i µ-fluidnike. Dr Matović je dobio nagrade Evropske svemirske agencije za novo rešenje za satelitsko upravljanje toplotom 2004. godine i dobitnik nagrade na takmičenju održanom u klinici Nature &amp; Cleveland, za novi neurohirurški instrument „Izbegavanje krvnih sudova tokom umetanja medicinskih sondi“ u iznosu od 30.000 američkih dolara. Dr Matovic ima preko 1100 citata i učestvovao je u mnogobrojnim evropskim projektima.

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Georges Dubourg је zaposlen u Institutu BioSens од 16. oktobra 2015. godine. Prethodno je bio zaposlen na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka, na Departmanu za energetiku, elektroniku i telekomunikacije, od septembra 2014. godine kao saradnik na FP7 projektu InnoSense. Od januara 2013. do jula 2014. godine radio je kao posle doktorski istaživač na Institutu za elektroniku, mikro i nanoelektroniku (IEMN) na Univerzitetu u Lilu (Francuska). Doktorske studije završio je na Univerzitetu u Bordou (Francuska), gde je radio kao istraćivač u laboratoriji Integracija: od Materijala do Sistema (IMS). U toku svog dosadašnjeg rada, dr Georges Dubourg se prvenstveno bavio naučnim istaživanjima u oblasti mikroelektronike i mikrofabrikacionih tehnologija, gde je ostvario zapažene rezultate na međunarodnom nivou. Takođe, učestvovao je u izvođenju auditornih i laboratorijskih vežbi kao asistent u nastavi od 2010. do 2012. na Univerzitetu u Bordou (Francuska) na nekoliko predmeta iz oblasti elektronike i tehnologija mikrofabrikacije na osnovnim akademskim i master studijama. Sarađivao je sa studentima pri izradi obaveznih projekata, diplomskih i master završnih radova. Domen istraživanja obuhvataju razvoj i fabrikaciju fleksibilnih senzora, mikrofluidiku i razvoj platformi organ-na-čipu. Georges je koordinator Horizon2020 projekta CISTEM-GA 778354.

Milica Trajković je sertifikovani projektni menadžer (Project Management Professional – PMP) od strane prestižnog Instituta za projektni menadžment (Project Management Institute), sa iskustvom u projektima finansiranim od strane Evropske Komisije u oblasti digitalne poljoprivrede i razvoja IKT sektora za poljoprivredu i industriju hrane.
Kao rukovodilac Centra za Inovacije i razvoj poslovanja, ona je odgovorna za izgradnju novih i održavanje uspešnih partnerskih veza kako sa partnerima iz industrije, tako i sa akademskom zajednicom u Srbiji i Evropi. Milica rukovodi multinacionalnim projektima koji obuhvataju nekoliko različitih industrijskih sektora; rukovodi razvojem i pisanjem novih projekata (od ideje do pisanja i realizacije projektnih aktivnosti) i pruža informacije o trendovima na AgTech tržištu istraživačima Instituta. Jedan od njenih ciljeva je snažna podrška preduzetničkim poduhvatima naučnika Instituta. Uz to, Milica podstiče razvoj visokotehnoloških stratapova, MSPP sektora iz Srbije i regiona sa osnovnim ciljem da približi tehničko-tehnološku scenu regiona poljoprovredi i industriji hrane.

Prof. dr Vladimir Crnojević je direktor i osnivač Instituta BioSens – istraživačko-razvojnog instituta za informacione tehnologije biosistema, jedinog Evropskog Centra Izvrsnosti van EU. BioSens je osnovan 2015. na njegovoj ideji iz 2005. godine i viziji o spajanju informacionih tehnologija i biotehnologije u budućnosti. Pod njegovim rukovođenjem i sa nekoliko entuzijastičnih ljudi Institut BioSens je prerastao u respektabilnu instituciju sa gotovo 200 zaposlenih i više od 70 doktora nauka. BioSens je prepoznat kao veoma multidisciplinarna  institucija koja primenjuje najsavremenije tehnologije kao što je veštačka inteligencija, robotika, nanotehnologije i novi materijali budućnosti u biosistemima – poljoprivredi, životnoj sredini i medicini. Pored izvrsne nauke institut BioSens je veoma posvećen saradnji sa industrijom kroz stvaranje inovativnih rešenja i snažno podržava razvoj inovacija kroz akceleratorske programe i formiranje spin-of kompanija. BioSens je dao značajan doprinos digitalnoj transformaciji javnog sektora i društva u Srbiji kroz razvoj različitih sistema, primarno u sektoru poljoprivrede.

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Profesor je računarskih nauka Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Na istom univerzitetu je studirao elektrotehniku i odbranio doktorat 2004. godine. Od tada je posvećen istraživanjima i razvoju u oblasti mašinskog učenja – danas popularne veštačke inteligencije. Jedan je od pionira u ovoj oblasti u Srbiji što je rezultiralo većim brojem odbranjenih doktorata i razvojem brojnih inovativnih rešenja za industriju. Obavljao je funkciju direktora departmana za energetiku, elektroniku i telekomunikacije Fakulteta tehničkih nauka Univerziteta u Novom Sadu i člana matičnog odbora za elektrotehniku, telekomunikacije i informacione tehnologije Ministarstva prosvete i nauke Republike Srbije. Član je nacionalnog Saveta za veštačku inteligenciju i Komiteta za veštačku inteligenciju Saveta Evrope.

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Prof. dr Crnojević je član 10-Member-Group, prestižne grupe eksperata koji imaju ulogu konsultanata Generalnog sekretara Ujedinjenih Nacija u oblasti uloge nauke, tehnologije i inovacija u realizaciji ciljeva održivog razvoja UN SDG koje su usvojile Ujedinjene Nacije. Objavio je više od 100 radova u renomiranim časopisima i na konferencijama i bio recenzent za neke od najeminentnijih časopisa u njegovoj oblasti. Njegova sadašnja interesovanja vezana su za ulogu veštačke inteligencije u ostvarivanju ciljeva održivog razvoja UN SDG i budućnosti čovečanstva.

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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Dr Nataša Ljubičić, naučni saradnik, doktorirala je na Poljoprivrednom fakultetu, u Novom Sadu u oblasti Biotehničkih nauka i užoj naučnoj oblasti Genetika i oplemenjivanje biljaka. Magistarsku tezu pod nazivom: ”Multivarijaciona analiza genotipova pšenice gajenih na meliorisanom solonjecu”, kao i diplomski rad iz predmeta Pedologija, odbranila je na Poljoprivrednom fakultetu, u Novom Sadu. Dr Nataša Ljubičić je angažovana u svojstvu naučnog saradnika u okviru Centra za biosisteme, Instituta BioSens u Novom Sadu. Oblast istraživanja obuhvata primenu inovativne i pametne tehnologije u službi povećanja prinosa glavnih poljoprivrenih kultura i pre svega unapređenja poljoprivredne proizvodnje. Istraživanja obuhvataju praćenje fenotipske stabilnosti osobina različitih genotipova pšenice, kukuruza i drugih poljoprivrednih kultura u različitim agroekološkim uslovima, kao i procenu interakcije genotip/spoljna sredina kao različit odgovor biljke na različite uslove sredine. U istraživanjima, fenotipska varijabilnost je praćena merenjem spektralnog odziva biljaka, gde se primenom aktivnih i pasivnih senzora izračunava više od 40 različitih vegetacionih, tj. spektralnih indeksa. Ovakvo udruživanje podataka doprinosi razvoju metoda za procenu stanja biljaka pre vidljivih simptoma i daje smernicu za unapređenje tehnologije proizvodnje, a pre svega maksimalnom iskorišćavanju rodnosti ispitivanih genotipova za područja istih ili sličnih agroekoloških uslova. Pored odabira adekvatnih vegetacionih indeksa, definišu se mere koje pogoduju ili eventualno štete proizvodnji useva za određene lokalitete. Dr Nataša Ljubičić je u dosadašnjem radu bila angažovana u okviru nekoliko projekata Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja Republike Srbije, učesnik u međunarodnim recenzijama, kao i član udruženja EUCARPIA (European Association for Research on Plant Breeding). Dr Nataša Ljubičić je u dosadašnjem naučnoistraživačkom radu, kao autor ili koautor, objavila preko 50 naučnih radova u međunarodnim i nacionalnim časopisima koje prema bazi Google Scholar, imaju preko 80 citata u međunarodnim čaopisima i vrednost 6 za Hiršov indeks.

Dr Branko Šikoparijaje naučni savetnik u Centru za biosisteme i rukovodilac kvaliteta (ISO17025) u Laboratoriji za palinologiju na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Fokus istraživanja je aerobiolgija, a trenutno je zainteresovan za razvoj detekcije i identifikacije bioaerosola u realnom vremenu. Branko Šikoparija je publikovao i recenzirao naučne radove u brojnim naučnim časopisima. Radi i kao pomoćnik urednika časopisa Aerobiologia. Koordinator je RealForAll mreže za autmatski monitoring bioaerosola u Panonskoj niziji. Takođe, aktivan je član EUMETNET AutoPollen programa, zamenik predsedavajućeg COST Action CA18226, i predsedavajući radne grupe Evropskog Aerobiološkog Udruženja za kontrolu kvaliteta. Vodeći je istraživač BREATHE projekta koji u okviru PROMIS programa finansira Fond za nauku Republike Srbije.

Bojana Ivošević se bavi upotrebom bespilotnih letelica za efikasno nadgledanje ratarskih kultura, slatkih voda i životne sredine. Ona je po struci biolog i ekolog. Doktorske studije je upisala na Kyungpook Nacionalnom Univerzitetu u Južnoj Koreji, gde je stekla dve godine iskustva rada na bespilotnim letelicama. Nastavila je studije na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu, Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu. Njen trenutni fokus istraživanja je primena bespilotnih letelica u preciznoj poljoprivredi za izračunavanje vegetacijskih indeksa važnih za procenu prinosa, detekciju bolesti i upravljanje usevima. Takođe je zainteresovana za primenu dronova u detekciji i prebrojavanju životinjskih vrsta, praćenju cvetanja algi, klasifikaciju zemljišnog pokrivača i sezonskih efekata na ekosisteme.

Ovaj projekat je finansiran od strane Evropske Unije, iz programa za Istraživanje i Inovacije-         Horizont 2020, pod sporazumom o grantu broj 731884. 
 

Horizont 2020

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BioSens akcelerator je intenzivan, tromesečni program namenjen AgTech startapima u ranoj fazi i predstavlja snažan most između nauke i biznisa. Program omogučava startapima da rastu, ubrzaju svoje putovanje od početne AgTech ideje do biznisa, i reše ključne izazove u poljoprivredno-prehrambenom sektoru. BioSens akcelerator je jedini takve vrste u Srbiji koji pruža podršku domaćim i regionalnim IT preduzetnicima usredsređenim na stvaranje inovativnih i revolucionarnih digitalnih rešenja za poljoprivredu.

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Prvi BioSens akcelerator počeo je u oktobru 2019. godine i tokom tri meseca koja su bila ispunjena interaktivnim radionicama i specijalnim treninzima, 8 timova savladalo je nekoliko veština: kako razviti poslovnu ideju, definisati poslovni model, identifikovati potrebe budućih korisnika i sprovesti detaljnu analizu tržišta i konkurencije. Zahvaljujući vrhunskoj tehničkoj i poslovnoj podršci, kao i smernicama prominentnih stručnjaka- mentora, startapi su svoju početnu ideju podgili na viši nivo. Nakon veoma uspešnog prvog BioSens akceleratora, Institut BioSens nastavlja da podržava preduzetnike. U realizaciji BioSens akceleratora 2020., Institut je udružio snage sa Evropskim fondom za Jugoistočnu Evropu i najboljim B2B akceleratorom u Evropi, Startup Wise Guys.

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Pored tehničke, poslovne i mentorske podrške, BioSens akcelerator omogućio je timovima i da se upoznaju sa strategijom prikupljanje sredstava, a startapi koji su učestvovali u programu prikupili su 140 hiljada evra tokom šest meseci. Ideja BioSens akceleratora jeste da podstakne preduzetnički mentalitet u našoj zemlji, a time i ekonomski razvoj, kao i da motiviše regionalne IT preduzetnike da hrabro stvaraju svoje proizvode.

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