The multi-national, the multi-faceted approaches available under the combined staff and facility resources will likely achieve results more timely, at a lower cost and at a higher quality than any individual organization could hope to achieve working alone.

Joining research efforts leads to:

• Taking advantage of worldwide pool of experience and expertise

• Advance key technology applications

• Pooling staff and facility expertise to minimize cost and to maximize benefits

• Accelerating rate of development and implementation

• Establishing protocols for effective international cooperation

JPO serves as an active research engine and a catalyst for IT innovations between Germany and Serbia. The main goal of the office is to support the cooperation between German and Serbian scientists in the field of applied information technologies, with focuses on:

• Joint scientific projects

• Development of new applications within the IT sector

• Exchange of excellent students and young scientists

• Partners and know-how brokerage

• Promoting entrepreneurship by founding spin-offs

Areas of Collaboration

Cooperation focuses on areas where both partners can best complement each other. Currently, it embraces (but is not limited) to the following:

• E-learning and Knowledge Management

• Intelligent Systems

• Distributed (Web-based) Systems

• Real-Time / Process Control

• Hardware Design

Pilot Project CyberSchool

The first pilot project, finalized in September, 2003, has been the development of an E-learning portal for schools and universities featuring support for both, learning itself and administrative processes in learning (e.g. student management, course management, group work monitoring etc).