COOPERATION

Ethnographic institute constantly nourished collaboration with scientific research institutions in Serbia and abroad. We also organized scientific conferences where researchers and scientists from various disciplines took part. The Institute greatly contributed to preservation of tradition and to efforts of perceiving cultural changes in our country and its surrounding.

Collaboration with the SASA (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) has continually been successful through last six decades, and it has manifested itself in participation of Academy members in our projects, in taking part in various Institute bodies (Scientific board and Editorial board, and in last couple of years in Managerial board as well) etc. As of 2002, this collaboration accelerated even further, thanks to unselfish engagement of academicians Dimitrije Stefanović, Vojislav Stanovčić and Gojko Subotić as members of the managerial board, with Mr. Subotić being a member of Institute's editorial board as well. Their help regarding contacts with the Academy has been priceless. Contacts with Presidency and the President of the Academy were also intensified – this goes for Academy's Department for social sciences, Department for international cooperation and number of academicians too.

Ethnographic institute tries to maintain cooperation with related institutions and establishments. Collaboration with Department for ethnology and anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade advanced. Traditionally good relations with the Ethnographic museum continued – same could be said for National museum in Belgrade and museums in rest of Serbia. Other institutes of the Academy are contacted on regular basis through monthly meetings of heads of institutes where mutual experiences are being exchanged, especially regarding matters of organization (among other things on taking singular stance towards the Academy and Ministry of Science). Foreign cultural centers were also contacted (foremost the German, Italian and Russian center).

Notable international cooperation of the Institute went on and was effectuated through international projects, study visits and conference attendances.

Long-lasting collaboration with Hungarian colleagues also went on effectively. This cooperation began as part of collaboration between two scientific academies, Serbian and Hungarian, in 1980s, but eventually confined to activities with Serbian minority organization: Serb Autonomy of Hungary, National Serb Autonomy of Hungary in Budapest, and Local Serb Autonomy in Batanya.

Agreement on scientific cooperation between Ethnographic institute and Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology UAM from Poznan, Poland, was reached; it was initialized by Dušan Drljača, PhD. This agreement arranges exchange of scientific information and editions, as well as organizing joint field-work in Serbia and Poland.

Research of Serbian communities in Timisoara, London, Greece, Republika Srpska, and California has also begun.

Cooperation within DEMOS - International ethnographic and folklore information, also continued – it is being developed thanks to activities going on in its editorial board – its member is Miroslava Lukić-Krstanović, M. Phil.

Institute is being visited on regular basis by colleagues from Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Russia, France, United States and other countries.

International Projects

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