A public outreach program to Power Engineering Community in Serbia and Western Balkan Region focusing the female members and young professionals.

A workshop titled “Public Outreach to Power Engineering Community in Serbia and Western Balkan Region Focusing on the Female Members and Young Professionals” was held on November 9th, 2016 in hotels Excelsior and Metropol Palace, Belgrade, Serbia. This event was sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES). The program was organized by the IEEE PES Chapter Serbia & Montenegro. It included opening speeches, two panel sessions, technical visit and social program. Total 36 participants from different countries attended the program. In the morning session, JovicaMilanovic, IEEE R8 PES Representative, Vera Markovic, IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section Chair, and Jasna Dragosavac, PES Serbia and Montenegro Chapter Vice-chair welcome the audience. Miroslav Begovic, Immediate Past-President of IEEE PES presented an overview of the journey of IEEE PES. Later Meliha Selak, PES LRP, Immediate Past IEEE PES VP Chapters explained IEEE PES Opportunities. After th coffee break, a session was organized for the Students and young professionals from the region. Among others, Danijel Topić, IEEE PES Student Chapters was present. In the afternoon, there was a session for Women in Electrical Engineering.

The workshop accomplished its main aims:

(i) Young professionals, women engineers and students from Serbia and other Western Balkan countries heard from selected number of speakers about services and facilities that PES offers for their personal and professional development.

(ii) Target groups met, networked, formed personal and professional links.

It can be expected that the pointing to advantages of PES membership and services that the Society could provide, will cause the increase of the number of regular and student PES members, especially because the attendees act as ambassadors for PES in the region. Furthermore, since the workshop was held in conjunction with the major regional conference in power engineering, Medpower, the attendees were able to exchanged ideas and discussed the results of their professional activities with conference delegates working in academia and in electric power industry. It made the number of the people impacted by the workshop very large. Many attendees of the workshop commented that the event was very well organized and useful and that there is a lot of interest for similar events in the future.

OPENING SPEECHES

IEEE PES AND OPPORTUNITIES IT PROVIDES TO MEMBERS

Jovica Milanovic, IEEE R8 PES Representative, speaking at the beginning of the workshop
Vera Markovic, IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section Chair
Miroslav Begović, Immediate Past-President of IEEE PES,
speaking about IEEE Power & Energy Society
Meliha Selak, PES LRP, Immediate Past IEEE PES VP Chapters, presenting PES opportunities

PANEL SESIONS

STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FROM THE REGION

Students and young professionals from the region speaking (from left to right):
Danijel Topić (Croatia), Stanko Janković (Serbia), Mirjana Sadiković (Macedonia), Boris Pećanac (Croatia), Almedin Kavaz and Nermin Suljanović (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

WOMEN IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Lidija Korunović, team leader of Local Organizing Committee and moderator of the workshop,
on panel Women in Electrical Engineering
Elvisa Bećirović, speaking in front of the attendees of the panel
Biljana Stošić, Mare Srbinovska and Jasna Dragosavac speaking on the panel
Maja Turković and Sunčica Cvetković –industry representatives, taking part in panel Women in Electrical Engineering

TECHNICAL VISIT

Some of the attendees of the workshop in front of the Nikola Tesla Museum
Waiting for tour guide in the Nikola Tesla Museum

SOCIAL PROGRAM

The atmosphere of Gala Dinner of Medpower 2016
In the restaurant “Šešir moj” in Skadarlija, bohemian hearth of Belgrade

 

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