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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Completion of digitalisation in all schools by 2023

Belgrade, 9 July 2021

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce Marko Cadez presented awards and recognitions to the winners of the "Programme Your Success" competition today.

The mentioned competition was announced by the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia and the "Loop" Foundation in order to mark the completion of the first generation of primary school, which had informatics as a compulsory subject.

The awards were given for the best examples of project teaching in the subject of Computer Science and Informatics, to 7th and 8th grade students and their teachers-mentors for projects in the field of Computer Science, ICT and Digital Literacy.

Brnabic pointed out that the complete digitalization in all schools in Serbia will be completed by 2023, adding that every year 1,000 new students are enrolled in specialized IT departments, and that the number of employees in the ICT sector has doubled in the past five years.

Cadez pointed out that the first generation of 67,000 digitally literate founders, which Serbia received as one of the few countries in the world that introduced informatics as a compulsory subject, showed that the future of a country is planned on time.

According to him, young people from Serbia, thanks to their knowledge of informatics, stepped into the future long before their peers in the world.

He stated that the number of employees in the IT industry is growing exponentially, from 20,000 five years ago to 40,000 as there are today and approximately 80,000 in the entire ICT sector.

He pointed out that the annual growth of exports of IT services is 26 percent, while the value of software exports is €1.6 billion a year.

Director of the "Loop" Foundation Nebojsa Vasiljevic said that Serbia will need experts in all fields in the coming years, and that the students, thanks to computer science and programming classes, have acquired skills that will mean further education and career.