At the Faculty of Civil Engineering, 1-2 July 2024, 12th and last General Assembly of RECONECT was held. During the two-day work were presented the overall progress of the project, key results, conclusion, finalization and implementation of research activities, realized impacts at the local and national level during the last 6 years, as well as future impacts and implementation of project results in the field of application of nature based solutions in flood protection, drought, landslides and other hydrometeorological risks.

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On Wednesday, July, 3, 2024. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, Dušan Petković, MSc Geodesy, defended his PhD thesis:

                                DETERMINATION OF LOCAL IONOSPERIC MODELS FOR PRECISE
                                  POSITIONING BY GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS

The members of the Commission were: Full professor Dragan Blagojević, Assistant professor Miljana Todorović, Dr. Aleksandra Kolarski (University of Belgrade, Institute of Physics).


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International conference "Nature-Based Solutions for Water Security and Climate Adaptation" will be held on 3-5 July 2024, at the Metropol Hotel, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 69.

There is growing evidence that traditional interventions for the reduction of hydro-meteorological risks (e.g., floods, droughts, heatwaves, storms, coastal storm surges, tropical cyclones, landslides, wildfires) have focused on grey infrastructure measures which are often limited in their approach and effects. A new response towards disaster risk reduction, water security, and resilience to climate change, which has a potential to be more effective and sustainable than traditional measures, is currently passing under the name of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).

This conference aims to bring together academic communities and practitioners to exchange information, experiences and research results on a variety of aspects concerning Nature-Based Solutions for Water Security and Climate Adaptation.

The Conference is organised by RECONECT network, a project financed by the European Commission (www.reconect.eu). The Conference is also supported by the International Water Association (IWA) and International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR).

More information here.

On Friday, June, 14, 2024. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, Nikola Obradović, MSc Civil Engineering, defended his PhD thesis:
DEVELOPMENT OF “HASP” CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR OVERCONSOLIDATED CLAYS
WITH APPLICATION IN FINITE ELEMENT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

The members of the Commission were: Assistant professor Sanja Jocković, Assistant professor Snežana Maraš Dragojević, Assistant professor Miloš Marjanović, Full professor Lidija Zdravković (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UK).


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On Friday, April, 12, 2024. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, Ognjen Mijatović, MSc Civil Engineering, defended his PhD thesis:

THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURAL DAMPING AND ROUGHNESS OF STEEL
SURFACES ON THE STRUCTURAL RESPONSE

The members of the Commission were: Full professor Ratko Salatić, Full professor Zlatko Marković. Full professor Aleksandar Borković (Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, University of Banja Luka).

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On Monday, March, 18, 2024. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, Ivan Milićević, MSc Civil Engineering, defended his PhD thesis:

DEMOUNTABLE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN STEEL AND REINFORCED CONCRETE ELEMENTS WITH MECHANICAL COUPLERS UNDER COMBINED SHEAR AND TENSION LOADS

The members of the Commission were: Full professor Snežana Marinković, Associate professor Branko Milosavljević, Associate professor Ivan Ignjatović, Associate professor Milan Spremić, Assistant professor Marko Pavlović (TU Delft).

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The RECONECT project workshop was held on January 24-26, 2024 in Belgrade, at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel.

At the beginning of the workshop, which was held on the first day, the participants were addressed by prof. Jasna Plavšić, project manager from the Faculty of Civil Engineering (UNBELGR), prof. Aleksandar Đukić, vice dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Zoran Vojinović (IHE Delft), coordinator of the RECONECT project. Then there were presentations: Var River Basin and Les Boucholeurs, France (Jelena Batica, Université Cote D'Azur), Elbe Estuary, Hamburg, Germany (Christian Ebel, BUKEA), Seden Strand, Odense, Denmark (Lars Sønderby), Drafting of the first Flood Risk Management Plan for Serbia (Merita Borota, Directorate of Water), Hydrological forecasts in small river basins in Serbia (Dejan Vladiković, Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia), Vladimir Beljinac (JVP Srbijavode). Project collaborators presented the cases of Tamnava river, Krupanj municipality, Vrbanja river in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kamčija river in Bulgaria, Pilica river in Poland, Bregana river in Croatia. On the second day, the assessment of dangers and risks in all scenarios, the assessment of benefits and common benefits continued. On the third day, the topics were: cost and benefit analysis, recommendations and conclusions, action plan.
During the stay, a walking tour of the city center was organized for the participants of the three-day workshop of the RECONECT project.

You can watch the video on our YouTube channel

On Friday, January, 26, 2024. at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade,

Sandra Guševac, BSc Civil Engineering, defended her PhD thesis:

PROPERTIES OF GREEN CONCRETE WITH AGGREGATE OF COPPER SLAG FROM MINING AND SMELTING COMPLEX “BOR“

The members of the Commission were: Full professor Snežana Marinković, Full professor Dimitrije Zakić, Full professor Mirjana Malešev (Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad), Associate professor Aleksandar Savić, Assistant professor Aleksandar Radević.

Slavko Vasiljević, MSc Geodesy, defended his PhD thesis:

POSIBILITIES OF GLOBAL NAVIGATION-SATELITE AND TERESTRIAL MEASURING SYSTEMS FOR PERMANENT GEODETIC MONITORING OF CONSTRUCTION MOVEMENTS

The members of the Commission were: Full professor Dragan Blagojević, Associate professor Oleg Odalović, Associate professor Mihajlo Popović (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade).

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