The Institute for Information Technologies Kragujevac, founded on June 6, 2019 by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, is a state scientific institute and the last member of the University of Kragujevac. The founding of the institute, part of the University of Kragujevac, created an institutional framework for all ambitious scientists in the field of technical-technological, natural-mathematical and social-humanistic sciences, who will be given the chance to engage in research in their country, following world trends in the fields their interests. Establishing a multidisciplinary scientific research institute in the field of information technologies, which permeates all the above-mentioned areas, will enable a significant increase in the scope and quality of scientific research work, as well as the development and application of information technologies in the field of biomedicine, bioengineering and bioinformatics.
The Institute of Information Technologies unites several scientific fields through the application of information technologies in natural-mathematical, technical-technological, medical, biotechnical and social sciences, which establishes closer cooperation between research groups with different research focuses, and significantly increases the scope and quality scientific research work and improves opportunities for multidisciplinary research. Considering the trends in modern science, with the increasing influence of computer science and information and communication technologies, the mission of the Institute will be precisely to advance in the field of information technologies through research, development and education. Multidisciplinarity of research will be one of the directions of development, so that the Institute would be able to follow the development of modern science.
The scientific research work of the Institute is oriented towards fundamental and applied research through a program of basic research and basic directed research, a research program in the field of technological development and a program of knowledge and technology transfer and encouraging the application of the results of scientific research work. Cooperation with business partners will create opportunities for additional education of employees in partner companies. The Institute will participate in the implementation of master’s and doctoral study programs, which are held by the faculties or the University, and which will be designed to fully meet the needs of modern society (business or the public sector). Also, by networking with the TEMPUS Foundation and through Erasmus+ programs, the institute will contribute to internationalization and positioning in the global research space, by participating in international projects and initiatives in the field of information technologies.
Objectives of the Institute
- multidisciplinary scientific research; application of information technologies; research and experimental development in natural-mathematical, medical, technical-technological sciences and social-humanistic sciences;
- applying and participating in the realization of national and international projects, cooperation with the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation, the Ministry of Education.
- research and development of laboratory and semi-industrial technologies
- auxiliary scientific and research activities: scientific documentation, standardization, methodology, patent documentation, application of technical solutions.
- consulting services and development studies in the fields of chemical, biological, physical, mathematical, medical, technical and social and humanistic sciences.
- The return of the scientific diaspora will be one of the priorities at the Institute through various international programs such as the ERA Chair, ERC, Horizon 2020 and other grants.
Acts of the institute
Management Board of the Institute
Equipment
In the very short time of its existence, the Institute for Information Technologies Kragujevac managed to provide significant equipment that is necessary for the high-quality and continuous work of researchers:
GC for MASS Spectrometer/GAS Chromatograph GC-2010 Plus
Spectrofluorimeter
UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
HPLC
Additional equipment
On the other hand, thanks to the successful cooperation with the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering Sciences Kragujevac, significant equipment is available to the researchers of the Institute of Information Technologies:
Chemoinformatics and molecular design laboratory
Laboratory for the development of numerical and experimental methods in radiation physics
Laboratory for bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry
Laboratory for bioinformatics and applied biology