About

The Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, under the name "Mechanical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences", was founded on July 15, 1947 by the Committee for Scientific Institutions, University and Colleges, as an expression of the need for a special institution. scientific research work in the field of mechanical engineering. Academician Vladimir Farmakovski, a full professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, was appointed the first director of the Institute. As a sign of merit for the great development of the Institute, after his death in 1954, the Institute was renamed the Mechanical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences "Vladimir Farmakovski". On June 1, 1963, by the decision of the Council for Scientific Work of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, in accordance with the decree on the establishment of the Institute, the Institute was renamed the Mechanical Institute "Vladimir Farmakovski", and its founders were the Executive Council of SR Serbia.

In search of the most rational ways of organizing scientific research work in the Department of Technical Sciences of SANU, at the annual assembly of the Academy on April 25, 1968, a decision was made to join the Academy as a scientific unit and expand its activity in the field of technical sciences. In that way, SANU, now the only founder of the Institute, reunited the Institute with the Academy on April 8, 1969 and renamed it the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

 

Mission

The mission of ITN SANU is to encourage and promote basic and applied research in the field of technical-technological and natural sciences that deal with the development of multifunctional nanostructured materials, biomaterials, sensor systems and photovoltaic energy sources, as well as storage of energy obtained from those sources.

The aim of the research is to develop innovative technologies that can be applied in the economy and society, as well as to promote high technologies at the national and international level. Recognizing the topicality of problems related to lack of energy and environmental pollution has initiated work in the field of photovoltaic energy with the ultimate goal to develop methods for characterizing photovoltaic systems and the introduction of photovoltaic energy in the Serbian energy system, in the context of energy transition to renewable energy sources and global aspirations to reduce carbon emissions. Within this goal, many problems must be solved, which stem primarily from the uncontrollability of solar energy production, which require a multidisciplinary approach in the field of electronics, energy, chemistry and materials science,

ITN SANU bases its activities on high academic and ethical values, on the principles of open science and on a responsible contribution to society, aware of its strengths and weaknesses, but also ready to find solutions.

 

Vision of the Institute:

• Positioning of ITN SANU as the leading institution in Serbia for the problems of photovoltaic energy, which expertly manages the issue of production and storage of photovoltaic energy.
• Research and development in the field of multifunctional materials (luminescent, semiconductor, photocatalytic materials), multiferroics, sensors, sintered ceramic materials, polymer composite materials, biomaterials and materials for use in medicine and pharmacy (scaffolds, tissue engineering, hydrogels, controlled) as well as in the field of new materials and technologies to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic elements (perovskites, photon conversions, heat extraction, etc.), and innovative technologies and methods of energy conversion and storage, biofuel cells and lithium batteries, potential water energy, off-river systems, etc.) in the function of enabling energy transition to renewable energy sources in Serbia.
• Providing additional funds for research and development through cooperation with the economy, especially in the field of development of systems for monitoring solar plants and production forecasting, as well as through accreditation of laboratories for calibration of specific meters and certification of components and devices of solar energy.