Vol. 44 (2015): Bulletin of the Chemists and Technologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina
TEMPUS – NETREL PROJECT: Network for education and training for public environmental laboratories (2012-2015)
NETREL project aims to train researchers and experts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia in environmental analytical techniques required to meet the major challenges in the monitoring, assessment and management of pollution and emission of toxic compounds in water samples in Western Balkan countries.
The main idea of NETREL is to train public environmental laboratories in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia on local, regional and national level. Also one of the ideas of the NETREL project is to create and implement a harmonized network of universities and public laboratories capable to prepare national and regional strategy for gathering of information on new organic pollutants, building of capacity and establishment of strategic partnerships in order to fill the identified human resources, equipment and data gaps. NETREL action will allow the development and implementation of state-of-the-art methodologies to enable and improve the Western Balkan capabilities for monitoring of environmental pollutants. These will be comparable to those already used in EU member states.
NETREL project consortium consists of 7 universities, 3 EU universities (Slovakia, Czech Republic and United Kingdom) and 4 partner country universities (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia). Seven public laboratories from local, regional and national level in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia have been selected as project participants (Public Health Institute of Canton Sarajevo, B&H, Federal Agromediterranean Institute, Mostar, B&H, Public Health Insitute of Republika Srpska, B&H, Utility company Waterworks Prnjavor, B&H, Serbian Envrionmental Protection Agency, Serbia, Public Health Institute of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia and Public Utility Company Waterworks and Sewerage Novi Sad, Serbia.
NETREL project coordinator is assoc. Prof. Ivan Spanik from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and coordinator for the University of Sarajevo is assoc. Prof. Tidza Muhic-Sarac from Faculty of Science Sarajevo.
