15. godina "Odeljenja za fiziku", NNB10 30-31. mart 2018

1. Petnica Science Center
T3 = Talents to Talents
Nikola Božić,
PSC Program Director

2. Petnica Science Center
• Founded in 1982.
• Independent nonprofit organization for
extracurricular, informal science education
• Development of scientific literacy and education

3. Petnica Science Center

4. Petnica Science Center
• focused on advanced education in sciences,
technologies and humanities both for teenagers
and school teachers
• regional coverage = Serbia, Montenegro,
Macedonia, B&H, Croatia,Slovenia... + International
• links with 500 schools and 145 RD
centers/universities
• network of 2,000+ lecturers

5. Activities
• Training courses, camps, workshops
• Teacher training programs
• Policy impacts
• 16 disciplines
• PI camp
• 3-20 days, 120-150 a year

6. In numbers
• 3.000 programs
• 50.000 participants
• 6.000 lecturers and associates

7. Educational philosophy
• no marks, tests/exams
• no ranking
• no classes
• no curriculum
• no teachers
• no textbooks
• no rigid discipline
• no certificates/diplomas
• active position of students
• students are respected

8. Selection of candidates

9. Special Focus
• Small/mid-size provincial schools
• Students from poor families
• Strengthening personal links within
the region
• Cross-disciplinary (problem-oriented)
approach
• Future challenges
• Innovative young teachers
• University students
• Promotion of independent education

10. Impacts
• Functional core of the new
generation of Serbian science
• High policy impact in almost
any serious reform process
• Impact on possible brain drain
reversing

11. Petnica International – PI
• International Summer Science Camp

12. Teacher training programs

13. Programs for University Students
• Microscopy (Uni Bg)
• Chromatography (Uni BG)
• Bioanalytical Chemistry (TU Budapest)
• Scientific Computing (Upsala)
• Lab Sprint (Paris Descartes)
• Petnica Summer Institute
– Cosmology, Astrophysics
(Princeton, ETH, SISSA)
– Machine Learning (Microsoft)

14. Petnica 3.0

15. New Facilities
• Five buildings with 7,500 sqm
• Full accomodation:
• Dormitory (170 beds)
– Single, double, triple rooms
• Restaurant (250 seats) and
coffee shop
• Library: 20 000 books and 50
periodics

16. New Facilities
• Laboratories:
• Biology : general lab, microbiology and molecular
biology, cell cultures, confocal microscopy
• Chemistry: general lab, AAS, UV VIS, HPLC, FTIR
• Physics and electronics: general lab, optics, acustics,
robotics
• Archaeology: general lab, XRF, museum storage
• Up-to-date teaching and research equipment

17. Library

18. Lab’s building

19. Biology lab

20. Biology lab

21. Chemistry lab

22. Chemistry lab

23. Chemistry lab

24. Physics lab

25. Physics lab

26. Physics lab

27. The Future is Here!
www.petnica.rs