The University Was Approved the First Coordination Erasmus+ Project

On 6 August 2019, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) in Brussels announced the results on projects approved within the Erasmus+ program, Key Action 2, Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education in the last Call for Proposals. 

Of altogether 833 applications, 163 projects were selected to be financed. 

Among the selected projects is also the first submitted coordination project of the Unvieresity of Banja Luka titled „Vitalising ICT Relevance in Agriculture Learning - VIRAL“, to be implemented by the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Banja Luka and the contact person Professor Miljan Cvetkovic, PhD. 

Apart from the University of Banja Luka, altogether 16 partners from six countries will take part in the implementation of the project. The project partners are: 
1. University of Mostar, BiH
2. Dzemal Bijedic University of Mostar, BiH 
3. University of Tuzla, BiH
4. Unviersity of Bijeljina, BiH
5. Donja Gorica University, Montenegro 
6. Wageningen University, Holland 
7. University of Maribor, Slovenia 
8. University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania 
9. Agro voce d.o.o., BiH 
10. Jafa komerc d.o.o., BiH 
11. 13. Jul Plantaze a.d., Montenegro 
12. Institute for Western Balkans, Serbia 
13. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center Tehnopolis, Montenegro 
14. Innovation Cemter Banja Luka, BiH 
15. Foundation for Innovations and Technological Development Intera, BiH
16. Montenegrin Association for New Technologies, Montenegro

Financing of altogether eight projects was approved, in which partners from Bosnia and Herzegovina participate. The only coordination project in this call was granted to our University. In addition to this project, the University of Banja Luka will take part in another two partner projects:

1. „Development of master curricula in ecological monitoring and aquatic bioassessment for Western Balkans HEIs (ECOBIAS)“
Project coordinator: University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Contact person at the University of Banja Luka: Professor Svjetlana Lolic, PhD, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Banja Luka

2. „Business driven problem-based learning for academic excellence in geoinformatics - GEOBIZ“
Project coordinator: University of Zagreb, Croatia 
Contact person at the University of Banja Luka: Mladen Amovic, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy at the University of Banja Luka