The scope of work of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MoESTD) is set by the Law on Ministries ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia" no. 44/2014, 14/2015, 54/2015, 96/2015 - and 62/2017).
According to the article 14 of the mentioned Law, MoESTD is in charge of public administration tasks related to: research, planning and development of primary, secondary and higher education and students’ standard; additional education of children of our citizens abroad; administrative control in preschool, elementary, secondary and higher education and student standard; participation in the construction, equipping and maintenance of facilities of primary, secondary and higher education and students’ standard of interest to the Republic of Serbia; supervision in preschool, elementary and secondary education, higher education and students' standard; organisation, performance evaluation and supervision of the professional development of employees in education; recognition and validation of public documents obtained abroad; promoting social care of talented students, improving of social care for pupils and students with special needs, creating the conditions for the access to and implementation of projects within the competence of the Ministry funded by the EU pre-accession funds, grants and other forms of development aid, and other activities envisaged by law.
MoESTD is in charge of public administration tasks that relate to the system, development and promotion of scientific research aimed at scientific, technological and economic development determining and implementing of policies and strategies of scientific and technological development, determining and implementing of the scientific, technological research and development; training of the staff for research; determining and implementing innovation policies, promotion of techno-entrepreneurship, transfer of knowledge and technologies in the economy, development and improving of the innovation system in the Republic of Serbia; regulations in the field of protection of intellectual property rights; developing of the functioning system of the scientific and technological information and programmes of scientific and technological infrastructure, research in the field of nuclear energy; nuclear facilities safety; production and temporary storage of radioactive materials, except in nuclear power plants, as well as other activities specified by law.
MoESTD is composed of the following basic internal units:
Special internal units are Secretariat of the Ministry and the Minister’s Office.
More specific internal unites, outside the department and the Secretariat in the Ministry, are Legal unit, Internal Audit Group and
School Administrations Work Coordination Unit.
ЗFor more information, please visit the MoESTD website, as well as the social networks Facebook and Twitter.
For information on dual education and entrepreneurship, i.e. work-based learning, please visit the page of the MoESTD.
Address: Nemanjina 22-26, 11000 Belgrade
Telephone: +381 11 3613734
Е-mail: kabinet@mpn.gov.rs