On Wednesday, October 27th Her excellency, Beverley Mercer gave the first lecture in the Embassy Series sponsored by the Ruđer Bošković Institute. The lecture was given in the auditorium of the Croatian Chamber of Economy to an audience of scientific, business and diplomatic leaders and highlighted Australian science and the possibilities of cooperation with the Republic of Croatia.

On Thursday, November 4th, 2010 beginning at 14:00 in the auditorium of Wing III, Dr. Davor Ježek from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb will give a public lecture entitled Medical In Vitro Fertilization, Why this year's Nobel prize went to Edwards.

The RBI in collaboration with the French embassy in Croatia has the honor of inviting you to attend a meeting dedicated to French-Croatian scientific collaboration. The meeting will be held on November 3rd 2010 starting at 10:00am in the wing III auditorium at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, Zagreb. The theme of the meeting will be current and future scientific collaborations between Croatia and France.

The Laboratory for Ion Beam Interactions at the RBI will host the first workshop organized within the FP7 SPIRIT project valued at 7 million euros. The workshop entitled New detector technologies for advanced materials research using ion beam analysis will be held from October 24th to the 27th in the Hotel Jezero, Plitvice National Park.

On October 28, 2010 beginning at 13:30 in the auditorium in wing III at the Ruđer Bošković Institute a series of popular scientific lectures commemorating the Nobel prizes for 2010 will begin with a lecture entitled From a simple pencil to the Nobel prize in Physics to be given by Dr. Marko Kralj, senior research associate in the Institute for Physics.

In the offices of the Central Agency for Financing and Contracting of EU projects (SAFU), Dr. Danica Ramljak, Director-General of the RBI and Marija Tufekčić, director of SAFU, signed a contract worth one million euros to finance two RBI projects through the pre-accession IPA component III- Funds for investment in science and innovation.

With the aim of stimulating the exchange of ideas and fostering greater cooperation between Croatia and those countries who see science and education as the basis for development of high technologies and spearheading economic growth, the Rudjer Boskovic Institute begins a new project entitled The Rudjer Boskovic Institute Embassy Series. This series of lectures by accredited ambassadors in the Republic of Croatia will be held once a month in the auditorium of the Croatian Chamber of Economy in Zagreb and will be open to all members of the academic, business and diplomatic communities as well as to the general public.

The National Department for Intellectual Property in the Republic of Croatia granted a patent entitled "Synthetic peptides containing unnatural adamantane related amino acids for use as antitumor drugs" (no. P20050242) on September 4th, 2010. The patent was granted to several investigators including RBI scientists Dr. Štefica Horvat, Dr. Kata Majerski, Dr. Andreja Jakas and Dr. Jelena Veljković.

At the recently held ceremonial sitting of the Croatian parliament marking Croatian Independence day 31 state awards for science in 2009 were conferred by the Minister of Science, Education and Sport Dr. Radovan Fuchs. Dr. Morana Jaganjac, a graduate student at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute, received the award in the graduate student category.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) invites you to attend the "Night Under the Stars" event which will be held October 15th beginning at 18:00, at the RBI campus Bijenička 54, Zagreb.