SERBIA

Competitive advantages of Serbia

Categorically, Serbia has the distinction of the following strengths:

• Strong math skills - Serbia's educational system is based on strong mathematical and logic background that Serbian programmers gain during their entire education
• English language- English language is mandatory through schooling,in fact Serbia students must complete at least eight years of English currently
• Internationally acknowledged IT skills -large number of software professionals, whose skills are among the best in the world
• Lower cost factor for software production services- Serbia is placed in a typical low cost environment
• Cultural affinity - placed in South Eastern Europe, people of Serbia have tendencies towards western rather then eastern culture.

Serbian Technological Heritage Serbia is a homeland of many world famous scientists.Let us mention some of them.

• Nikola Tesla - electrical inventor
• Milutin Milankovic - geophysicist, known for his theory of ice ages
• Mihajlo Pupin - inventor of the overload coil-which made long distance telephone calls possible
• Stevo Todorcevic - mathematician, teaching on many universities, such as Berkeley, currently in Canada, University of Toronto.
• Many Serbian lecturers teach on universities worldwide like him, Petar Stukalov - scientist, nominated for Nobel's prize in 2003
• Miodrag Stojkovic - a researcher with the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Newcastle, the first person in Europe to use cells from a cloned embryo to treat disease.