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NanoPoly Center has the great honor to host Ms. Miho Shimizu, holder of MSc in history from the University of Sarajevo. Japan is the largest post-war donor for the reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its donations have been the most purposeful. Namely, the Japanese Government has mainly renovated schools, built schools, supported the purchase of modern medical equipment, and built bridges on our rivers. However, perhaps the most important “bridges” and “living” donations have been scholarships for students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who have brought knowledge of modern technologies back home in recent decades. Ms. Shimizu, however, will show us what it was like to be a scholarship holder and student at the University of Sarajevo in the 1970s, and present us with important messages from Japanese classic films. Together with former Japanese Government Scholars from our country, join us for this education in a warm and friendly atmosphere.

Venue: Multimedia Hall of the Innovation Center Banja Luka (Mladena Stojanovića 4)

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Technology park Intera, Mostar, hosted on the „Digitalisation in green economy“ speakers from areas of investments in green principles in agriculture, material industry, meteorology… We liked very much the presentation on „green fashion“ methods for online sharing and recycling of the clothes, emphasizing the need to decrease the impulsive clothes shopping. Let’s get dressed in the charisma and charm!

We spoke about our vision on the threats in using the AI in drafting the scientific papers, by people who are not sufficiently trained in this area. Original intellectual property can be robbed from you with one click if the a member of the scientific team copies the unpublished data into the AI for grammar, literature check or similar. Until the clear legislation, protecting the scientific data is here, maybe it is better that we rely on the good old human brain!

The award for the best entrepreneurial and innovative idea of high school students in the Adriatic-Ionian region was won by our protégés Eva Kuruzović and Lidija Wolf. It was an honour for us to mentor these two special young ladies together with the Innovation Center Banja Luka.

The international competition for innovation and entrepreneurship, POPRI International, was held this year on May 6-7, 2025 on the Greek island of Crete, and our team as the high school representatives won first place! The students presented their idea under the name “ReGlass” (Idea Description: Transforming the approach to glass recycling with a sustainable and innovative solution). The POPRI competition is held annually as a side event of the EUSAIR Forum and bring together young people from 10 EUSAIR countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, San Marino, Serbia and Slovenia).

The business innovation community in the Balkans has new stars!

 

 

 

 

 

The Governor’s Palace in Banja Luka once again hosted those who are more important than any world aristocracy, as the Chamber of Commerce of the Republika Srpska awarded the most successful entrepreneurs in 2024.

Our small company was honoured to share that moment with people who, with their efforts and ideas, are driving the development of our society. The Palace was built during the heyday of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the 1930s.

The builders from the village of Vrtoče near Bosanski Petrovac, who built it, the forerunners of today’s entrepreneurs, could not have dreamed that even awards for digitalization in agriculture would be awarded here.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Today is United Nations World Water Day 2025. Every day, though, water becomes an increasingly important resource, let’s not forget that.

Our favorite fact about water is that frozen water has a lower density than liquid water, which is why it floats and prevents entire oceans, lakes and rivers from freezing, which would destroy life in their depths.

Our teacher Tatjana and her team of young artists learned about acidic rain and water conservation today and appropriately chose the watercolor technique for their creative work. We will patiently wait for the results until next week, because the works have gone to dry…

 

 

 

 

We are thankful to our partners from LIR Evolution for an invitation to share and learn at an energetic seminar of their project Danube Indeet. Incredible teams from our country, but also from Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Montenegro, and Romania, will work on finding out best solutions for expansion of electricity to the most rural regions.

Local infrastructure frameworks in six selected regions and the data will be fed into a computation model based on mathematical optimisation to obtain ideal green infrastructure setup in terms of operation and economics. The whole point is that not all the solutions fit everywhere: wind turbine needs wind, solar panel needs Sun… so breathe in deeply before you jump into new investment in energy .  

 

 

NanoPoli Centre is a proud partner in European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) Deep Tech Talent Initiative, a pioneering programme that is skilling one million people within European deep tech fields by 2025. NanoPoli Centre has signed a pledge to contribute to the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative by expanding the education for young students on deeptech in material sciences.

Deep tech innovations – cutting-edge technological solutions combining fields of science and engineering in the physical, biological, and digital spheres – are indispensable in addressing the most pressing global challenges. However, Europe lacks the talent and skilled labour force necessary to properly leverage the new technologies to enable its green and digital transition. The EIT aims to address this gap, in line with the European Commission’s New European Innovation Agenda, by developing a strong deep tech talent pool across Europe.

To address the mission of training one million individuals in deep tech before the end of 2025, the EIT launched the ‘Pledge for Deep Tech Talents’, which is a vehicle for partners and sponsors to contribute to the development and delivery of the initiative’s courses and training. The Pledge gathers public and private organizations, industry representatives and champions, academic partners, education providers, and Member States in support of the aim of the initiative.

NanoPoli Centre, as an Education and Training Provider will contribute to achieving the goal of training one million talents in deep tech fields by promoting potential of primary and secondary raw materials available in Bosnia and Herzegovina for sustainable production of nanomaterials for European market.

 

 

 

 

In recent decades, concern about the impact of humans, primarily industrial activities, on negative climate change has become an everyday topic and has found its place in most scientific fields. The voice of the young population is also becoming important, especially through actions that sometimes even involve boycotting school classes as a form of awarness campaigns.

However, an important topic that, in our opinion, will be increasingly relevant in the coming years and decades is the “reconciliation” between the necessity of the existence of heavy industry and our desire as inhabitants of the planet to protect it from fatal climate change and pollution in general. This year, the NanoPoly Center will draw attention through a series of important events to the fact that this reconciliation is possible.

Young people need to know that their favorite jacket or T-shirt is made from synthetic microfibers that come from polymers, and polymers from oil. And yet the favorite phone, tablet, or computer in front of them contains minerals from over 60 different mines. To maintain all the comfort that this means, young people need to know more and become carriers of advanced environmental protection technologies, many of them deep techs.