Conference Name

2nd Business Forum between the Republic of Serbia and Republika Srpska

Novi Sad, November 17-19, 2016

November 17

19:00 Welcome drinks in the entrance lobby of the Provincial government building

November 18

Master Center, Novi Sad Fair

8:45 Registration

9:30 Opening of the Business Forum:

• Mr. Igor Mirovic, President of the Provincial Government of Vojvodina

• Mr. Nedeljko Cubrilovic, President of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska (tbc)

• Mr. Goran Knezevic, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Serbia (tbc)

• Mr. Petar Djokic, Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining of Republika Srpska

• Mr. Marinko Djukic, Director of the Republic Agency for SME Development, Republika Srpska

• Mr. Zeljko Sertic, Director of the Development Agency of Serbia

10:15 Presentation of the infrastructural project for construction of a highway section Ruma – Novi Sad with the tunnel through Fruska Gora Mountain

• Mr. Vladimir Galic, Provincial Secretary for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection

Presentation “Introducing elements of a dual education and training system in BiH – “Opportunity plus” model

• Mr. Nikola Dragovic, Republic Agency for SME Development, Republika Srpska

11:00 Coffee break

Press sessions

11:30 Room no. 5 and 6 - Enterprise Europe Network B2B meetings

B2B meetings of companies and clusters

12:00 Room. No. 4 – Workshop “Regional and cross-border cooperation for sustainable“

Examples of development projects and opportunities for potential cooperation between development agencies

• “Capacities of self-government units and development organizations of the Republika Srpska for cross-border projects and opportunities for cooperation with partners from the Republika Srpska“, Mico Stanojevic, Head of the Project Planning and Implementation Department, Republic Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Entrepreneurship of the Republika Srpska;

• “Managing human capital in the community”, Miso Reljic, Director of the Agency for Economic Development of the City of Prijedor “PREDA-PD“;

• “Time for Bijeljina”, Ankica Todorovic, Head of Department for Local Economic Development and European Integration of the City of Bijeljina;

• “Establishing a support system for local SMEEs by strengthening local offices in local self-governments in Backa” Milana Popovic, Project Manager, RDA Bačka;

• “Role of the Local-self-government in SME policy towards the EU accession process", Ranka Miljenovic, European Policy Centre – CEP.

12:00 Room No. 3 – Workshop “Support to competitiveness of SMEs through innovation – cooperation between science and economy“

• “Building a better eco-system for Research Transfer Technology and Innovation", Marina Vukobratovic Karan, Head of the Group for National Innovation System, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development Republic of Serbia;

• Presentation of a project, Zoran Milosevic, MD PhD, Provincial Secretary for Higher Education and Scientific Research, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina;

• “Project Metris-vine- innovation in production and market access for wine producers of Sumadija wine region“, Nenad Popovic, director, Regional Economic Development Agency for Sumadija and Pomoravlje;

• “Project "Development and production of prototype devices for human collecting of bee venom", Zoran Hadzi Jovanovic, Cluster manager, Cluster „Panonska pčela“;

• Presentationof Scientific institutions from Republika Srpska.

15:00 Lunch for participants

17:00 Closing ceremony