| Abstract (english) | Geological education at South-Eastern European universities is developed under the CEEPUS CIII-RS-0038 network (Earth-Science Studies in Central and South-Eastern Europe – EURO Geo-Sci), which includes participating unites from eleven countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. For long 24 years, EURO Geo-Sci continuously promotes sharing of knowledge and know-how via multilevel activities: student mobility, engagement of visiting peer-experts, joint supervision Master and PhD thesis, reinforcing geosciences educational infrastructure of the participating institutions. The network covers wide spectrum of geological disciplines including both fundamental (regional geology, mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, paleontology, structural geology etc) and applied disciplines (e.g. mineral resources, engineering geology, hydrogeology and geophysics). In the past 24 years more than 1500 individuals used the network through student and teacher mobilities, joint supervision master and PhD projects (successfully defended more than 20) as well as field excursions. During such a long period, the network is also continuously facing with many internal and external challenges. Internal challenges are related to low-funded, classical and sometimes outdated curricula of some programmes, lack of innovative content and teaching diversity brought by visiting experts and hands-on practical experience for peer academicians as well as for the students. External challenges are related to declining demographic trends and regional brain drain leading to decreasing in number of students, pandemic, unstable political situation (wars) as well as negative public perception of the geology (and mining) sector due to environmental and political activism. Thanks to flexibility of the network and dedicated engagement of the local coordinators, the network responds appropriately to the challenges involving new courses, networking with current scientific projects, cooperation with industry and serving the society in solving problems concerning pollution, water resources, land sliding, earthquakes, mineral deposits and many others. For more details about EURO Geo-Sci the following publications are recommended: ŠARIĆ (2022), ŠARIĆ et al. (2022), ŠARIĆ & IONESCU (2018), as well as the network’s website: https://ceepus.rgf.bg.ac.rs/, facebook page: Ceepus.RS0038 and instagram page: ceepus. rs0038.euro_geosci. |
