For the second year in a row, our Faculty was the host of “Materials without borders” conference designed by our young researchers in the frame of RM@Schools project.
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“No borders”, indeed, it was! 4 excellent pupils teams have get to know each other and compete in the subjects of applied material chemistry. First, they had an excellent exchange of knowledge.
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The Italian team, RM ambassadors of the Liceo Roiti from Ferrara, have shown how they teach metals chemistry to the younger pupils in their school and beyond.
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Grammar School Gradiška studied the thermal and mineral water in Bosnia and Herzegovina, relating contemporary tourism and healing potentials with ancient history of Romans who first brought the concept of spa to this region.
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School “Sveti Sava” from Foča, little, but yet so international city with great Faculty of Medicine, is thinking deeply about how it is important to stop using coal as the energy source to preserve the health of the population in their region. With their teachers they studied in the newest literature that natural coal exfoliation is a great way to produce graphene, which is an important material bringing the digitalization and sensors of new generations.
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Finally, the winner of the best presentation was the team from “Đura Jakšić”, a school holding the name of a famous poet. They studied the “wool wonder” of extracting lanolin. With their presentation they have raised awareness on the about 3 million wool fleeces wasted in our country yearly, while the domestic cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry is importing lanoline at €50 /kg from far countries. Lanoline could be so easily extracted from the Pramenka sheep wool and it would be an amazingly organic and pure product.
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Second day, pupils have got to visit the ArcelorMittal Prijedor iron mine, the Colorit factory and finished the conference by lunch in Ethno-village/museum Ljubačke doline, where they had the opportunity to enjoy the impressive mineral collection. Greatest achievement of this conference was young people from different countries bonding together without borders and we will search for a way to sustainably continue it in the future.
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