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Centre of Excellence in Kragujevac to be completed in April or May 2024

Kragujevac, 13 November 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that the Centre of Excellence in Kragujevac, which covers 11,500 square meters and whose construction costs €18 million, will start operating in April or May next year.

During the tour of the final works on the mentioned building in Kragujevac, Brnabic pointed out that the construction of the Centre is taking too long, because we additionally changed projects so that everything would be completed in accordance with international standards, but that the government of Serbia never gave up on this project.

According to her, the Science and Technology Park in Kragujevac will be temporarily located in the Centre of Excellence, making that city the fifth in Serbia to receive a science and technology park.

Namely, as she explained, Kragujevac needs a much larger science and technology park, so from the first quarter of next year we will start building an innovation district next to the State Data Centre, fully financed from the Serbian budget.

She said that the American company Oracle, which provides its cloud services worldwide from this centre, wants to have a larger team here, so that Kragujevac will be the home for Oracle in Serbia.

Also, as she pointed out, there are talks with Mind Group about opening another science and technology park, but also with representatives of CERN about having a supercomputer for processing big data for CERN in Geneva in the State Data Centre in Kragujevac, which would make Serbia only one of six countries to have it.

The Centre of Excellence with the National Bank of Stem Cells, in which young scientists from Serbia will work, consists of three parts – bioengineering, biomedicine and stem cell research.