State Secretary Tatjana Matić, the Dean of the Faculty of Physics prof. dr Ljubiša Zeković and the President of the Society of Physicists of Serbia prof. dr Ivan Dojčinović attended today’s ceremonial opening of the reconstructed Laboratory for Atomic Physics at the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade.

The Society of Physicists of Serbia, in cooperation with NIS, is implementing a project of training for physics teachers to implement laboratory exercises and work with talented children. The first phase of the project is equipping three laboratories in Belgrade, Niš and Novi Sad, as well as the formation of a mobile laboratory.

The mobile laboratory provides for implementing multiple complex laboratory exercises using modern measuring equipment and data processing software. This involves the drafting of quality manuals for the implementation of select experimental exercises and processing the results of the measurements, as well as the training and stimulation of teachers to do experimental exercises as part of teaching, school physics clubs, as well as physics clubs at the city or county level.

The Society of Physicists of Serbia successfully completed this phase, and is starting the implementation of the planned second phase, representing teacher training. The third phase will be the implementation of laboratory exercises for students as part of the project “Pupil’s Laboratory of the Energy of Knowledge”.

Participants in the training will hear lectures regarding processing the results of measurements, correct setup of select experimental exercises and proper handling of measuring equipment and setup elements. Likewise, participants will be able to perform several experimental exercises individually (with assistance and supervision by the trainers).

The mobile laboratory will enable a greater number of physics teachers to become familiar with the techniques of implementing experimental exercises and to become familiar with modern devices and software for processing the results of measurements. Teachers will be able to exchange experiences through a website upon completing training, both amongst themselves, as well as with the trainers, thereby fulfilling the conditions for continued education.

Tatjana Matić commended the cooperation with the Society of Physicists of Serbia and noted that the Ministry supported the project by the Society of Physicists of Serbia at last year’s call, organized for the third year in a row and intended for non-government organizations. The Society achieved excellent results, winning the gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad, held in Argentina, and thereafter at the 12th International Science Olympiads, held in Daegu in South Korea, winning three silver and three bronze medals.