Djelic: Serbia to produce battery for the cars

Belgrade, May, 07. 2010 (Serbia today) - Serbia should participate in the German project for the production of batteries for electric cars, said Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic. Djelic says that our country will soon be opening the largest branch of the German research center Fraunhofer, which employs more than 14,000 researchers in 80 branches in that country. Researches in Serbia should be focused in the field of information technology and biomedicine, he said, indicating that it was agreed that in the future Serbia will partly participate in the German project for the production of batteries, which should facilitate the development of electric cars."It will be more other initiatives, but it is very important that Germany has recognized Serbia as a small, but ambitious country in the field of science and technology," said Djelic and added that Serbia's future lies in the attraction of big technological companies."Germany has thousands of companies such as this and it is very important that Serbia, instead of exporting smart people to Germany, try to export smart Serbian-German products, said Serbian Deputy Prime Minister. The Serbian government, he said, increased the budget for science to 120 million euros in the budget. Thanks to the arrangements with the European Investment Bank, signed in March 2010, another 500 million euros will be allocated in the next five years for the scientific and technological infrastructure of Serbia.