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Young electrical engineers awarded 10 million dinars

Belgrade, 6 October 2005

Serbian Minister of Finance Mladjan Dinkic said today that, according to the Serbian government’s Fund for Young Talents’ decision, 19 members of the Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering (ETF) young students’ team, who won first place on the competition for electrical engineers, in Chicago last month, will divide among themselves an award of 10 million dinars.

Dinkic said that the 10 million dinars have already been paid on the account of the Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Dinkic expressed conviction that this award will be an incentive for young students to continue their work and to be the best they can be, not only in Serbia, but in the world. He also added that the country will devote its full attention to its young talents in the upcoming period, considering the large financial expenses necessary for research, especially for the research of young engineers.

Dinkic said that a decision on the final list of candidates who will receive the Fund’s scholarship, in accordance with the “125 million dinars for the top100 postgraduate students” competition, was adopted at today’s Fund for Young Talents’ session.

Dinkic said that these funds are anticipated for postgraduate students who have enrolled in universities abroad, as support to their postgraduate studies, and added that individual scholarships are worth 1.25 million dinars.

According to him, the young graduate students will be able to remain abroad for one year to receive advanced training, after which they are obliged to return to Serbia and work for five more years, which is all in accordance with the agreement that they will sign with the Serbian government.

Following the Fund’s session and press conference, a reception was organised in honour of the young electrical engineers. The reception was attended by the co-president of the Fund for Young Talents, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.