The mission of ITS SASA is to encourage and promote fundamental and applied research in those areas of engineering and natural sciences that focus on the development of multifunctional nanostructured materials, biomaterials, sensor systems and photovoltaic power sources.
The aim of the research conducted at ITS SASA is to develop innovative technologies that can be applied in the industry and society, and to promote high technologies nationally and internationally.
The activities of ITS SASA rest upon high academic and ethical values, the principles of Open Science, and social responsibility.
The vision of the Institute is to:
-to promote advanced technologies on the national and international level.
-to become internationally recognizable in the field of study and application of the wide spectrum of frontier technologies,
-to develop innovative technologies through high-quality research and to transfer them to the industrial sector,
-to develop new models that integrate research, education and innovation in the sphere of academic and industrial research,
-to contribute to the development of academic studies and young-career researchers,
-to serve as an incubator for start-ups, using research generated at the Institute,
-to promote advanced technologies on the national and international level.
History
ITS SASA was founded in 1947, in the context of an intensive industrialization and technological development in Yugoslavia, after World War II. It has undergone several transformations in terms of research topics and organizational and management structure. The transformations were mainly determined by the national reforms of the research system and the status of the industries with which the institute collaborated.
The research had been largely limited to the area of mechanical engineering until the late 1960 and the early 1970s, when the institute was reorganized to cover all areas of engineering (mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, aerodynamic research, civil engineering, technology and metallurgy, autonomous electric vehicles, and industrialized housing). Since the mid-1970s, a distinct orientation towards multidisciplinary research into advanced materials and technologies – from electronic, electrochemical, through optical and catalytic, to biomaterials and pharmaceutical materials – has gained prominence. The research into housing construction and shipbuilding was discontinued in the mid-1980s and after 2000, respectively.
1947–1954 – an institute within the Serbian Academy of Sciences (SAS) funded from the SAS budget;
1954–1958 – an independently funded organization, but SAS still had founding rights;
1958–1961 – an independently funded research organization; SASA had founding rights;
1961–1968 – independent research organization operating as a business organization; SASA did not have founding rights;
1968 – SASA took over the founding rights; the institute operates as an independent research organization.
The Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA is accredited according to Article 31, paragraph 2 of the Law on SASA (Official Gazette 18/2010 of March 23, 2010). Between 2002 and 2019, the organization of research and administration activities was significantly determined by the research finding system (project funding) in Serbia.
Directors:
Miloš Tomić 2022-
Vladimir Farmakovski 1947-1954
Dušan Veličković 1954-1963
Nenad Zrnić 1963-1981
Branislav Bilen 1981-2001
Dragan Uskoković 2001-2011
Zoran G. Đurić 2011–2021
Antonije Đorđević 2021–2022