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Head of Austrian Representative Office Visited Dukat Cultural and Artistic Society

The Head of the Representative Office Mladen Filipović visited Dukat cultural and artistic society in Traiskirchen yesterday. The visit was organized in cooperation with the Association of Serbs in Austria, the Umbrella Organization of Independent Serbian Associations from Lower Austria (KOSSA), the Austrian Association of Serbian Folklore (AASF) and Dukat cultural and artistic society. The present were addressed, in addition to Filipović, by Ranka Savić, president of KOSSA, Aleksandar Stanković, president of AASF, and

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St Sava Ball Held in Vienna - Help for Children with Down Syndrome

The jubilee 25th St Sava Ball, organized by the Serbian Center, was held in Vienna. The event took place in the Hofburg Palace and gathered more than two thousand participants from the Republic of Srpska, Serbia and Austria. The event is of humanitarian character. The funds raised are intended for the Down Syndrome Center Banja Luka. Numerous invitees and guests attended the traditional St Sava Ball. The event

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Filipović: Improve Cooperation in Process Manufacturing and New Technologies

The Head of the Representative Office of the Republic of Srpska in Austria, Mladen Filipović, said that the Austrian market had the greatest interest in the wood and metal sectors, but that opportunities were also opening for cooperation improvement in the fields of new technologies and process manufacturing. Filipović noted that economic cooperation strengthening and institutional connecting remained the priority in Representation’s work, in addition to preserving

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Swiss Association of Serbian Businessmen Awarded Medal of Merit to the People

The Association of Serbian Businessmen of Switzerland has been actively involved in celebrating the Day of the Republic of Srpska, so the Medal of Merit to the People it was awarded on the occasion of that holiday represents the support and recognition for decades of work on connecting the diaspora and the motherland. That afforded an opportunity for interview with Stojan Stevanović, president of the Association of Serbian Businessmen of Switzerland. As the president of a Serbian diaspora association, what is

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‘WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE COME FROM’: Our Students Founded Serbian Cultural Club at Prestigious US University

At the initiative of several students of Serbian origin, Serbian Cultural Club was recently founded at the prestigious US DePaul University based in Chicago with the aim to bring together all our academics who study there, regardless of whether they came from the homeland to study or were born and raised in America. Third-year management student

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Eleventh Serbian New Year’s Concert Organized by SECS Prosvjeta Held in Vienna

The eleventh Serbian New Year’s concert, organized by the Serbian Educational and Cultural Society (SECS) Prosvjeta, was held in the pleasant atmosphere of the Vienna Concert Hall (Ehrbar Saal). The guests included members of Austrian institutions, Ms Gudrun Kugler, Mr Maximilian Krauss and others, and head of the Representative Office of the Republic of Srpska in Austria, Mr Mladen Filipović, assistant minister for cooperation with

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Republic of Srpska Day Celebrated in Novi Sad, Subotica and Akron

The Union of Krajina Associations from Novi Sad, supported by the Fund for Refugees, Displaced Persons and Cooperation with Serbs in the Region and Republic of Srpska Representative Office in Serbia, celebrated last evening the Republic of Srpska Day and Slava the Holy First Martyr and Archdeacon Stefan. The ceremony held at the SPENS amphitheatre in Novi Sad sent the messages

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Recognition for Children and Prosvjeta Vienna

The program of the assembly of the Association of Writers of Serbia held in the Serbian Army House in Belgrade included presenting the traditional recognitions of this important institution, one of which was awarded to prof. Srđan Mijalković, founder of the SECS Prosvjeta Committee Vienna. Mijalković, who is the vice-president of Viennese Prosvjeta, was ceremoniously presented with a special recognition, a plaque with the image of Simo Matavulj, an author

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Milićević: High Time to Form Diaspora Ministry

The minister without portfolio in charge of relations with the diaspora, Đorđe Milićević, presented the results of previous work and introduced preparations for the development of a strategy on preserving and strengthening relations between Serbia and its people in the diaspora. Milićević said that Serbs outside the motherland insisted on the formation of a ministry in charge of cooperation with the diaspora. At the final media conference of the year

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Serbian School Open in Cannes

A Serbian supplementary school has been opened in Cannes. Classes in Serbian have been organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia, free of charge for all children who want to improve their knowledge of the Serbian language, and are currently attended by 43 children. The classes in French territory have a great support from the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Paris and Balkan Azur association

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