03.01.2020.
Minister Vulin: After decades of noninvesting, the Ministry of Defence offers scholarships for the best again
Defence minister Aleksandar Vulin handed over the contracts today to scholarship recipients of the Ministry of Defence, in the Great War Hall of the old General Staff building in Belgrade.
Student scholarship competition for the school year 2019/2020 was announced in July 2019, by decision of defence minister Aleksandar Vulin.
The Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces have concluded scholarship agreements with 16 students who have fulfilled all the requirements.
The contract stipulates that, upon completion of their studies, the graduates will receive employment at the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, and their future job positions will be in the Military Technical Institute of the Ministry of Defence.
According to Minister Vulin, after many decades of leaving out, negligence and disregard for its personnel and for its future, the Ministry of Defence resumes the practice of offering scholarship.- After so many decades, the Ministry of Defence has provided the money and conditions for our most talented and best children to receive scholarships and therefore, after graduation, to obtain a guaranteed job position at the Military Technical Institute. In this way, by protecting our wits, by protecting our children, by giving them a motive for work, by giving them space to work, we fight most effectively to prevent our children from leaving this country, to work here, to give their knowledge, their wit and their hard work to their country and the Serbian Armed Forces, Minister Vulin said.
According to him, anyone who works in the Serbian Armed Forces, whether it is a regular soldier or an engineer, “knows that he is doing more than ordinary work, and being a part of the Serbian Armed Forces is a big and important thing and a life mission, not just a job”.
- The Military Technical Institute will be significantly enhanced with these young engineers, they will get “fresh blood”, new ideas, they will get the children who are the best and most talented. The Military Technical Institute is recovering and rebuilding in this way, the defence minister pointed out, adding that by returning scholarship policy and retaining our youth “the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces are contributing to President Vučić’s struggle to keep young people in this country and above all to keep our children, our wits showing after many decades that they care again about the future of both the Military Technical Institute and our military”.
According to the Director of the Military Technical Institute, Colonel Bojan Pavković, today’s event is of great importance for the Military Technical Institute and the development of arms and military equipment.
- This is another way in which the Ministry of Defence supports the development of weapons and military equipment, because our research staff and know-how are the most important and in this way we get personnel and knowledge from those technological fields that are most important for us, Colonel Pavković said.Talking about the importance of this scholarship, Maja Mladenović, a student of the master’s degree programme at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy of the University of Belgrade, emphasised that it was a great honour for her to be one of the Ministry of Defence scholarship recipients.
- It is really an incredible opportunity, and especially an opportunity to start a career later, since the Military Technical Institute is one of the best institutes in our country, Maja Mladenović said.
According to master’s student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, Luka Miličić, “as long as there are members of the Serbian Armed Forces who are ready to sacrifice on the ground for the fulfilment of their mission, it is important that there are also people who are willing to give their maximum in order to ensure the technological advantage they need to fulfil their mission”.
- The military industry has been the pioneer of this country's technological development for centuries, and as such it must be prepared to respond to the challenges and competition in the world technology rank. The task of our generation is to continue where our predecessors left off and to contribute to this multi-generational unstoppable race to the top of the world technology, said Miličić and thanked on his behalf and on behalf of his colleagues and wished all “a long and successful cooperation”.Today’s ceremony was also attended by Nenad Miloradović, PhD, acting assistant minister for material resources, Lieutenant General Goran Radovanovic, PhD, rector of the University of Defence, Major General Mladen Vuruna, head of Defence Technology Department, as well as the families and friends of the scholarship recipients.
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