On May 31, 2024, in the Ceremonial Hall in the Rector’s Office of the University of Belgrade, The Faculty of Security Studies of the University of Belgrade, celebrated its 49 work anniversary.

Dr. Marko D. Petrović had visiting lectures at the Don State Technical University, Faculty of Media Communications and Multimedia Technologies in Rostov-on-Don in April 2024.

Regarding the promotion of seven associates to the position of senior research associate, Dr. Marija Drobnjaković, Dr. Jelena Ćalić, Dr. Milan Milenković, Dr. Ana Milanović Pešić, Dr. Gorica Stanojević, Dr. Jovana Brankov, and Dr. Nina B. Ćurčić, a suitable cocktail reception was held at the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijić" of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. After this promotion, the number of senior research associates at the Institute increased to 16.

The special issue “Transboundary catchment erosion and pollution” is a follow up of the international conference, which was held in Belgrade, Serbia, in July 2023 and organized by Geographical institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA.

The traditional New Year's cocktail party was held in the banquet room of the "Palace" hotel on January 12, 2024.

Dear Colleagues,

During 2024, two significant jubilees will be celebrated – 100 years since the First Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers in Prague and the publication of the first volume of the monograph “Geomorphology” by renowned Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić (1865–1927)

As part of the bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the People's Republic of China, a group of researchers from the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijić" SASA, Dr. Darko Vuković (project leader), Dr. Ana Milanović Pešić, Dr. Marko D. Petrović, and Dr. Stefan Denda (project team members) realized a study stay in the People's Republic of China on December 18–26, 2023.

In the period from 2021 to 2023, the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijić" SASA and the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) implemented a bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the People's Republic of China entitled "Comparative Research on Sino-Serbia Disaster Risk Prevention and Control from the Viewpoint of Multi-disasters."

The team of the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijić" SASA is one of the winners of the Public Call for funding citizen science research projects in 2023, which was announced by the Center for the Promotion of Science with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation.