As part of the study on academic emigration, the Network of Academic Solidarity and Engagement (MASA) is organizing on 14.07.2021. at 7:00 p.m. at Club Polet (address: Cetinjska 15, Belgrade) a forum entitled: Academic emigration - scientific research and teaching work in the country and cooperation with the diaspora.
The survey on academic emigration was completed by 1130 researchers and teachers from Serbia and the diaspora. The goal of the study is to systematically deepen the cooperation of researchers and teachers from the country and the diaspora with the experiences of returnees, after an initial overview of the current situation. The interlocutors at the forum will be:
• Milica Vesković Anđelković, docent from the Faculty of Philosophy, UB.
• Gordana Bjelobrk, head of the Department of Demography of the Republic Institute for Statistics.
• Gazela Pudar Draško, research associate and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, UB.
• Jelena Predojević-Despić, research associate at the Institute of Social Sciences.
• Milica Tošić, research associate at the Institute for Medical Research, UB.
Moderator: Vladan Čokić, scientific advisor of the Institute for Medical Research, UB.
Serbia is traditionally a country of emigration with a large academic diaspora around the world. Therefore, it is important that our academic diaspora be recognized as an important potential of domestic social development. Along with the failures in preserving and upgrading the foundations of Serbian science, the academic community in the country should also be respected, which has succeeded, often without sufficient funds for work, to make strides in world science and create new generations that will partly go to the world again. The goal of the research conducted by MASA was to map the conditions for creating a stimulating environment (social and economic) for the development of science in the country, then the conditions for motivating and supporting the cooperation of the domestic academic community and our experts from the diaspora, as well as creating conditions for active and effective involvement returnees to the academic community of Serbia.
