BELGRADE (Serbia), November 15 (SeeNews) – Serbia's prime minister Ana Brnabic has said the government is investing 50 million euro ($59.2 million) in innovation projects with the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The sum is being invested in the construction of a new building of state-run research and development (R&D) Institute for Information Technologies (IT) in biosystems BioSense, a scientific park and agriculture digitisation centre in Novi Sad, Brnabic said in a video file posted on the website of public broadcaster RTS earlier this week.
The government is also investing in the construction of a laboratory and a scientific technology park in Nis.
"Funds are also being invested in the Institute of Physics in cooperation with CERN, and in a new building of the Faculty of Organisational Sciences," Brnabic said.
The EIB plans to invest 3 billion euro in the Western Balkans in the next three years, the head of the EIB Regional Representation for the Western Balkans, Dubravka Negre, said last week.
($ = 0.844751 euro)