A Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, will deliver a lecture at an international scientific symposium, Ruđer Josip Bošković – Physicist and Astronomer, which the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) is organizing in cooperation with the University of Zagreb under the auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in honor of the 300th anniversary of Ruđer Bošković's birth. Prof. Lehn's presentation during the symposium will also be the first in the Ruđer Josip Bošković Lecture Series, which the Institute has introduced to commemorate this great jubilee. 

A group of a hundred senior level executives at leading Finnish companies were in Dubrovnik from May 12 to 15, 2011. In addition to participating in professional seminars, they also attended a presentation about Croatia's investment potentials.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) has begun establishing the first regional center for nuclear molecular diagnostics in preclinical trials, where scientific research in tumors and chronic degenerative diseases will be conducted. This project will afford the Institute opportunities for innovative research, thereby contributing to its positioning on the European scientific arena, where there are only a few such centers. Today, capital equipment valued at 400,000 EUR is arriving at the RBI – a mini PET camera for small laboratory animals purchased with a loan from the World Bank, under the Science & Technology (S&T) Project funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

Yesterday in the Conference Hall of the Croatian Chamber of Economy, as part of The Embassy Series Sponsored by the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Ambassador of Finland to the Republic of Croatia, His Excellency Juha Ottman, delivered a lecture entitled Finnish Innovation Policy – Successes and Challenges.

Whether the time has finally come for Croatia to become accepted as a member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN, and thus fulfill aspirations of nearly the past three decades, may be known this week. In a two-day visit to Zagreb, Prof. Felicitas Pauss, Ph.D., Head of International Relations at CERN, will have a series of working meetings with key persons for international cooperation from the Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia; the Deputy Prime Minister for Investment, Domagoj Ivan Milošević; the Minister of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, Radovan Fuchs, Ph.D.; and the Director of the Directorate for Science, Hrvoje Meštrić, Ph.D. During Prof. Pauss' visit, for the first time the importance and necessity of Croatia's accession to CERN will be presented to the members of the Parliamentary Committee for Science and Higher Education at a special session devoted to this topic. 

Yesterday in the Conference Hall of the Croatian Chamber of Economy, as part of The Embassy Series Sponsored by the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Ambassador of Finland to the Republic of Croatia, His Excellency Juha Ottman, delivered a lecture entitled Finnish Innovation Policy – Successes and Challenges.

On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, at 1 p.m, as part of the series Distinguished Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, a lecture entitled Particle Physics and the LHC Project will be delivered by Prof. Daniel Denegri.

Representatives of the city of Zagreb and the Ruđer Bošković Institute, led by Mayor Milan Bandić and the Director General of the RBI, Dr. Danica Ramljak, held a meeting today at which discussions included, among other items, joint domestic and international projects, competitions for structural funds and cooperation on strategically important environmental issues for the city of Zagreb.

The book Random Sequential Packing of Cubes by Prof. Yoshiaki Itoh of the Institute of Statistical Modeling, Tokyo, and and Mathieu Dutour, Ph.D., of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Laboratory of Satellite Oceanography, Division for Marine and Environmental Research, was recently published by World Scientific in Singapore. It contains simplified mathematical models for understanding the random sequential packing of cubes.

What kind of educational system do we need in order to create a “land of knowledge“? Does our system of higher education have a strategic framework? What is the ideal structure for Croatia's labor market in 2015? Can we create an effective link between supply and demand on the labor market? These are only some of the questions that were posed yesterday during the round table discussion “Land of (Lack of) Knowledge” at the conference WinDays11 Business in Rovinj.