Other Projects

The Way of Sciences started in 2013 as an initiative of the Association of Gardeners from Senta with an aim to promote science – by attractive scientific experiences, interactive programs, exhibitions, creative workshops and interesting details about the world of science. The programs this year took place at different locations in four towns: Senta, Becej, Ada and Kanjiza. Distinguished partners of this year’s program were the Centre for Science Promotion, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as the Wigner Research Centre for Physics. Wigner Centre presented a travelling interactive exhibition called Multicolor Physics Bus. The Centre for Science Promotion presented an exhibition called Numbers. Other partners of the event were VTS – Polytechnic High School in Subotica, PMF – Faculty of Natural Sciences in Novi Sad, Corvinus University, Bolyai Secondary Grammar School and Dormitory, High School Senta, Technical School Ada, Agricultural Technical School Center “Beszédes József” Kanjiza and the Than Memorial House.

Tha Pro Scientia Naturae Foundation’s programs for supporting talents and the authentic location at the Than Memorial House has made the Than Memorial Camp come alive, which is a specific camp for supporting talents. The program of the Memorial Camp welcomes local highschool students and students from abroad (Hungary). Participants may get a deeper insight into topics related to scientific and artistic work of the Than brothers. Courses are held by teachers and experts with sound experience in their field of study as well as in supporting talents. Except for learning about and guarding our traditional and national values, our aim is to awake interest in science and art among young people, this way helping them in their professional orientation. The first Than Memorial Camp took place this year, and its participants came from three schools: the Than Károly Eco-School from Budapest, the János Garay Grammar School from Szekszárd and the Grammar School in Becej. The Than Memorial Camp is part of the National Talent Program and its main supporters are the Ministry for Human Resources of Hungary and the Pro Scientia Naturae Foundation.

The „Way of Sciences” took place for the second time at the Main square in Senta, June 6-7, 2014. The aim of the program is to present laws of nature and scientific results in an interactive way, this way promoting science to the public. Target group: generations attending elementary and secondary school, but there are interesting and exciting programs for the older, too.
The „Way of Sciences” invites companies from the field of education, higher education, science promotion, economic production, development, services and trade, which present their scientific activities and scientific developments they have achieved. Other aim of the project is to draw attention to the fact that successful functioning and modern services require diverse and high quality scientific development and research.

The Foundation „Pro Scientia Naturae” from Senta and the Center for Innovation „Science” organize a joint three-day Conference about Sustainable Energy Sources in Senta. This program’s objectives are: building professional contacts, professional orientation, framing alternative approaches, looking at positive examples, ecological consciousness and forming a new economic approach by educating the most talented students of our region. 20 students take part in the workshop, who are studying at Serbian or Hungarian institutions of higher education.
Objectives of the program: to envolve experts in discussing sustainable energy issues, to visit companies – good examples of using sources of sustainable energy, to draw attention to the importance of applying sustainable energy. During the three-day workshop, participants visit sites and companies which have marked significant results in using and discovering sustainable energy sources.

The program is aiming at talent cultivation and talent discovering in thematic workshops which take place in the „Than” Memorial House, which is unique in our region thanks to its interactive exhibition that complements elementary school education. With workshops and talent cultivation, the Memorial House offers exciting learning and teaching possibilities, for schools, schoolchildren and other visitors. The aim of the program is to serve as a sustainable part of the Memorial House’s talent cultivation and professional orientation workshops.
Three schools, 60 schoolchildren and seven teachers took part in the workshops within the framework of this program. However, the project indirectly affected a larger number of people, since the schoolchildren are from three different settlements, from schools that are already acquainted with the wide range of activities in the Memorial House, while the number of activities keeps growing.

This project aims to organize a five-day long ecological camp, during which participants would map ecological potentials of the surroundings of the School Center „Stevan Sremac”. The aim of the project is to create an ecological approach and teach participants about ecological production by gaining theoretical and practical skills. Number of participants: 30. Topics: analizing insect population; discovering protected sorts of plants and herbs; botanics; analizing soil nutritive components; analizing quality of water; hybridization.

The Way of Sciences is a major science promoting program, which was organized first in 2013, with an intention to create a tradition. The main goal of the program is to present (in an understandable way) the significance of research and scientific development essential in the functioning of the region’s successful companies and institutions. This way, the program tries to draw attention to the significance of scientific professions in the region’s development. Since the basic objective of the program is the picturesque and attractive presentation of professional orientation and scientific branches characteristic for our region, we considered it important to invite all companies (MOL, OTP, Woods of Vojvodina, food production and processing companies, etc.), interactive parks important for professional orientation (Than Memorial House), institutions of education and research (Technical College in Subotica, Budapest Corvinus University – Department in Senta, etc.), which actively take part in the development and image building of our region.

This project aims to organize a five-day long ecological camp, during which participants would map ecological potentials of the surroundings of the School Center „Stevan Sremac”. The aim of the project is to create an ecological approach and teach participants about ecological production by gaining theoretical and practical skills. Number of participants: 30. Topics: analizing insect population; discovering protected sorts of plants and herbs; botanics; analizing soil nutritive components; analizing quality of water; hybridization. Significance of the eco-house; environment protection and rural development.

• Regions inhabited by Hungarians in Vojvodina
• Microregions: the same product-orientation, the same system of conditions, tradition
• Saving the spontaneously created agricultural culture and tradition
• Using and developping potentials of the region

Mapping the situation:

• Scope of activities
• Type of economy
• Level of integration
• Finalizing the product for sale
• Innovation, technological development
• Level of education and capability of management
• Presence of Professionals in coordinating the production process

Research and presentations during this project pointed at the advantages of farmsteads and rural farming, the potentials of ecological production in a healthy environment, as well as potentials in sale and quality assurance of environment friendly products made by modern agrotechnical means. We chose farmsteads in Hungary and Vojvodina, where we could create a modern, environment friendly and market oriented production by using financial means from project funding. We did quality assurance, labelling and trademark protection and put these products on the market, then analized how can we make rural farming more profitable in different economic surroundings (Hungary – EU-state, Vojvodina – non-EU-state).
We chose three farmsteads at each side of the border and envolved more than 25 experts in the research and development activities.

1. Opening ceremony
2. Expert forums
3. Choosing the farmsteads
4. Buying inputs for the farmsteads
5. Analizing development efficiency
6. Mapping further development potentials
7. Farmstead days
8. Publishing a collection of studies
9. Closing ceremony
10. Further plans, continuing research

The aim of the project is to create a harmonic statue park that meets all horticultural criteria for the Municipality of Mali Idjos.

• Presenting geographical potentials of Vojvodina
• Presenting farmers active in organic production
• Discovering development potentials
• Building contacts
• Market research

• Foundation for Stock-Raising Scientific Development, Gödöllő, Hungary
• Floém Bt., Ráckeve – Hungary
• Oldcet Ltd., Budapest – Hungary

Project objectives – to present Quality assuring systems in agriculture and food industry in theory and practice (ISO 9001, 14000, HACCP, BRC, GAP), as well as to inform companies involved in food industry and agricultural producers about these systems. Building contacts between experts who are creating the systems, institutions who are doing quality assurance and interested companies and producers.
We prepare modells of quality assuring systems for presentation:

• at milk producing and purchasing company, (HACCP system)
• at seed growing company, (ISO 9001 system)
• at field vegetable growing producer (BRC system)
• at greenhouse vegetable growing producer and hen farm (GAP systems)

Target group: producers, entrepreneurs, intellectuals who make the basis for the region’s agricultural and rural development and its food production.

• development of agricultural production, improving profitability,
• rural agricultural development in order to make people stay in rural areas,
• strengthening the integrative role of the mother within the family,
• help in acquiring European standards and know-how, what will be useful after the project, too.