On April 25, 2024, at the oldest secondary school in Serbia, the St. Sava Seminary in Belgrade, with the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfiry, Protodeacon Radomir Vrucinic, rector of the Seminary, and Vladimir Obucina, director of the Petar Mandic Foundation, signed an official cooperation agreement.

Cooperation Agreement with the St. Sava Seminary in Belgrade

The presence of several respected seminary professors and the president of the Endowment's Board of Directors, Nikola Puric, magnified this important event for our institution, especially for the benefit of the seminary students in expanding the scope of their education.

The cooperation primarily concerns:

• Organizing lectures for students of the Seminary, where eminent Serbian professors and experts from various scientific fields would speak on various topics related to the functioning of the modern world. The primary goal of cooperation in this field is for students of the Seminary to acquire the knowledge necessary to prepare themselves in time for the various challenges they will encounter after completing their education as future pastors of the Church and national workers and to learn how to view these challenges critically. The secondary goal of cooperation in this field is for the Seminary to profile itself in Serbian society in the coming period as a high school educational institution that adequately prepares students for encountering the modern world.
• Organizing lectures on lesser-known topics that are very inspiring for students and are related to the priestly ancestors of Nikola Tesla.
• Lectures on parenting for students in the final year of the Seminary
• Affirmation of awareness of endowment and social responsibility among students of the Seminary.

With all of the above, we remember that some of the main goals of the "Petar Mandic" Endowment are the development of parenting schools, the construction of balanced education, the popularization of the dialogue between science and religion, the provision of scholarships to young students, raising awareness of endowment and the development of good neighbourly relations between Orthodox Serbs and members of other religious communities in the Balkans.

We look forward to the upcoming activities with the institution that educates and trains future church, educational, cultural, and national leaders and is one of Serbian society's strategically important educational institutions.

The first fruit of the signed agreement will be a lecture by Dr Branimir Jovanovic, the greatest Serbian expert on Nikola Tesla's figure and work and one of the greatest world experts on the same topic. The lecture is scheduled to be held in the second half of May of the current year.