The Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina will support the project “We Are Travelling to Europe in 2007”

Novi Sad, 31 May – In accordance with the priorities of Vojvodina’s Government to recognize and support successful projects, the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina will support the project “We Are Travelling to Europe in 2007”, aimed at the best university students of Serbia”, has said Bojan Pajtić, MA, President of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina at the meeting with Ksenija Milivojević, Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia. It is about the project that the European Movement in Serbia has been realizing for the third year in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Austria in Belgrade and the Assembly of the City of Belgrade, wishing to offer young people studying at domestic universities and achieving excellent results a chance to learn about European countries. Students will be able to travel around Europe, of their choice, with Austrian Schengen visas for a month in mid-July.

According to President Pajtić, MA, young people studying in Serbia, bearers of the county’s future development, could not travel abroad in the past years due to social circumstances. The project was very successful in the past two years. In 2005, 100 students travelled, whereas 200 students will travel next year, out of whom a third is from Vojvodina. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria has decided to grant 300 gratis visas for our students. According to the survey of the Student Union of Serbia, only about 3 percent of students have had an opportunity to visit some EU countries. The Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina will contribute to the inclusion of a significant number of young representatives into our intellectual and cultural elite, who will be able and competent to present European values in their environment, as indicated at the meeting. Apart from the President of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić, MA, the participants in the discussion were also the Provincial Secretary for Science and Technological Development, Dragoslav Petrović, PhD, and the Director of the Office for European Affairs, Predrag Novikov.