Results - List of Receiving Institutions from WBC

Ljubljana, April 29, 2009

At the ad – hoc meeting on the results of: "SEE-ERA.NET AWARD FOR DONATIONS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF RTDI COLLABORATION WITH  WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES", which was held in Paris,  December 17 , 2008 members of the Noordung Potočnik Award Commission decided to distribute the technical equipment, which has been offered from JRC (see the list of the JRC donated equipment below) based on information the research ministries of WBC  provide about the interest for this equipment expressed by research institutions in their countries.

The members of the Noordung Potočnik Award Commissiondecided that, in case there will be more than one research institution from WBC interested in the equipment donated by JRC, the criteria for the decision on the recipients will be based on the level of investment in research in the respective WBC and that those countries should be given priority, in which the level of investments in science is relatively low.

MHEST received answers/interest from two WBC ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ministry of Education and Science of Montenegro. On the basis of Noordung Potočnik Award Selection Commission decision from December 17, 2008, Selection Commission decided s follows:
- research institutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina shall receive the equipment donated by JRC.

Receiving Intuitions are:

• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sarajevo
• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sarajevo

The Company Sava Kranj d.d., Slovenija (second donor) decided to donate their equipment to  Faculty of Biotechnical Science, Bitola , Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (see list of donated equipment by Sava Kranj d.d. below).

Donors and receivers (WBC institutions) will agree on transport and installation of the donated equipment by themselves.

At the meeting in Paris, members of the Noordung Potočnik Award Commission decided that the web site  will be still open to new donors and the principle of choosing whom to donate (in the case of more than one country is interested in the donation) will follow the data on investment in research but each time an other country from WBC will receive donation.

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Donated equipment by Joint Research Centre – European Commission:

• Hewlett Packard HP LC/MSD, Single quadrupole LC-MS system with orthogonal electrospray. (Today the MS is produced by Agilent and called 6100 Series Quadrupole LC/MS Systems - Inventory MSD: 01RI2000 00203 03 The LC components are:
• Degasser G1322A
• Pump G 1312°
• Autosampler G1313A
• Column Compartment G 1316A
• Diode Array detector G1315A
• (Inventory for all LC components: 01 RI 1997 00547 59)

• Working Station & Software HP Vectra, Inventory: 01 RI 2001 01461 23
• Vacuum pump EDWARDS 18, no inventory
• Nirtogen Generator WHATMAN, Inventory: 01 RI 2000 0042 17
• Total Carbon Monitor (Carlo Erba Instruments): 01 RI 1987 00344
• Elemental Analyzer CHN NCS 2500 CE Instruments: 01 RI 1997 01083
• Automatic Carbon Sulfur Determinator 900 CS : 01 RI 1993 00740
• Elemental Analyzer CHN

 

Donated equipment by Sava Kranj d.d.

• 5 Personal Computers
• Centrifuge (Tehtnica Železniki, LC – 320)