The AgriCOM Challenge was held on Monday, March 28, 2022. Five teams presented their solutions. An expert jury: Ranko Jurjević (marketing agency Solution), Slaviša Joldić (Jakovov company) and Žana Jurjević (member of the AgriCOM team).
The first place was won by the team called AGRO 3 + 1, which consisted of Luna Jović, Dragan Ivanišević, Reka Korhec and Ivana Tubmas.
All participants were awarded certificates for attending the course and participating in the AgriCOM Challenge.
On Monday, 28/3/2022 in Novi Sad (17h – S3) presentations of the case study will be organized. Five teams are working on their ideas.
In period 28/2/2022 – 14/3/2022 an Intensive Training Course: Competitiveness of agri-food sector of Western Balkans is realized. Course is realized by professors Bojan Matkovski, Mirko Savić and Danilo Đokić
During February and March 2022, within the ERASMUS + Jean Monnet project AgriCOM, we are organizing a competition in solving the case study AGRICOM CHALLENGE! Participants will be divided into groups, and the case study will be formulated as a real problem situation of the company JAKOVOV, which is engaged in the production of an innovative product.
In addition, we will organize a series of workshops that will help you solve the case study itself, and whose main focus is to improve competitiveness in the food market.
The competition is intended for final year students (bachelor and master), and applications are open until February 27. Number of participants is limited!
Application:
https://forms.gle/vZsW5VUZ9BBxT1bFA
AGENDA:
| 28.2.2022. | Presentation of the study and division into groups Workshop on digital marketing and solving the study in groups |
| 7.3.2022. | Workshop on econometric modeling and solving the study in groups |
| 14.3.2022. | Workshop on investment analysis and solving the study in groups |
| 28.3.2022. | Presentation of the solution and announcement of the winner by an expert jury |
A certificate will be provided for all participants in competitions and workshops.
Take this great opportunity to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge in solving a specific case study.
Questions on agricom.project@ef.uns.ac.rs or Instagram profile agro_efsu!
Matkovski, B., Zekić, S., Đokić, D., Jurjević, Ž., & Đurić, I. (2022). Export competitiveness of agri-food sector during the EU integration process: Evidence from the Western Balkans. Foods, 11(1), 10.
Trade agreements with the European Union (EU) and Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) significantly influenced the liberalisation of agri-food products in Western Balkan (WB) countries. In all Western Balkan countries, there has been an intensification of the trade of agri-food products and a partial change in the regional and commodity structures of trade. This paper aims to identify comparative advantages of agri-food sectors and consider its tendencies during the EU integration process. Additionally, this paper will discuss some opportunities for improvement of the export positions of agri-food products. In that context and based on the literature review, the indexes of revealed comparative advantages and its modified version will be used as a main method for analysis in this research. Results showed that all Western Balkan countries, except Albania, have comparative advantages in exporting agri-food products. It is evident that Serbia has the highest level of comparative advantages in this sector. Moreover, this paper suggests that all countries should aim to provide the best possible positions for their agri-food products during pre-accession negotiations for EU membership and take the necessary steps towards increasing the level of competitiveness in the common EU market.
Jurjević Ž., Zekić S., Đokić D., Matkovski B. (2021). Regional Spatial Approach to Differences in Rural Economic Development: Insights from Serbia, Land, 10(11), 1211.
Rural regions with a larger share of the primary sector in the overall economy are limited in their ability to achieve a sufficient level of competitiveness. In countries such as Serbia, where rural areas play an important role, addressing the problems affecting these areas is important for overall development. The purpose of this study is to determine the socioeconomic performance of the rural regions of Serbia and the EU in order to indicate the position of Serbia’s rural areas in the process of European integration. NUTS 3 (NUTS 2 for Germany) was used for analysis, and from this an Index of Socioeconomic Performance was created. This Index was created using Factor Analysis. The results point to Serbia lagging behind other EU regions in terms of development, with most of Serbia’s rural regions receiving the lowest ratings. These results are cause for alarm and indicate a need to create strategies that will direct resources towards key issues in these areas, whose potential would be adequately used through the implementation of rural policy measures, with the aim of overall socioeconomic development.
New scientific paper has just been published on the Land journal SSCI list (IF 3,395, M22).
This research is results of the Erasmus+ project AgriCOM.
Title: Regional Spatial Approach to Differences in Rural Economic Development: Insights from Serbia
Authors: Žana Jurjević, Stanislav Zekić, Danilo Đokić, Bojan Matkovski
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/11/1211
On #eramusdays our colleague Danilo Đokić, member of the project team AgriCOM, was presented project, courses and competition AgriCOM CHALLENGE.
On #Erasmusdays, AgriCOM CHALLENGE will be presented on Faculty of Economics, University of Novi Sad.
https://www.erasmusdays.eu/event/agricom-challenge-promotion/
Course Agricultural Policy of European Union has been realised on third year of bachelor studies as an optional course on Faculty of Economics, University of Novi Sad. As the main objective of the project is to disseminate knowledge about the EU and its policies, with an emphasis on EU agricultural and rural policies, the stated objective is realized through curricula innovation in the existing course APEU.
According to decisions of Faculty, classes in summer semester in 2020/2021 school year were organized online because of COVID-19 pandemic. Online classes (lectures and tutorials) were held through the ZOOM platform. During the course, students could download all the materials (books, presentations, case studies) via the Moodle platform. The total number of students on course were 41.