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Educational Research in Serbia

Serbia has been in the headlines since November 2024 due to mass protests. The protests were sparked by the collapse of a railway station canopy in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, which killed more than a dozen people. The protesters blame the Serbian government and criticise corruption and authoritarian structures. 

What is remarkable is that it is primarily young people and students who are driving these protests. Since the end of November, they have occupied more than 60 faculties throughout Serbia. Their demands go beyond educational policy issues. On the one hand, they want a full investigation into the Novi Sad accident. On the other hand, they are calling for more profound changes towards greater democracy in Serbia. 

In these exceptional times for Serbia, the ECER (European Conference on Educational Research) will take place in Serbia's capital Belgrade from 8 to 12 September 2025. To mark the occasion, Bildung Weltweit has compiled a web dossier on educational research in Serbia, where you can find information on professional societies and associations, research institutes, research history, topics and trends, professional journals and more.

Professional societies & associations, networks

Serbia
Website of the Educational Research Association of Serbia (ERAS). Unfortunately, the site offers little information. The most recent news is from 2020. "Reports & Publications" mainly features international reports from the UN, OECD, and the like, which are also older. The Researcher's Registry is only available in Serbian. The only [...]

Serbia
Website of the Pedagogical Society of Serbia. The English site mainly offers news and the journal ‘Studies in Teaching and Education’ in open access. The articles are partly in Serbian and partly in English, but this cannot be recognised from the table of contents, which is offered once completely in Serbian and once completely in [...]

Serbia
Website of the Serbian Academy of Education. It describes itself as a "association of citizens that organizes, develops and encourages scientific and research work in the field of education, focused on theoretical and empirical research into education as a social activity , scientific and teaching disciplines of importance for the [...]

Serbia
Website of the Serbian Psychological Society. Among other things, the professional society publishes the Psihologija Journal (open access), operates a Center for Applied Psychology, and hosts regular conferences (e.g., the 73rd Congress of Serbian Psychologists in 2025). The Serbian Psychological Society was founded in 1953 as a branch [...]

Research Institutes

Serbia
The Institute for Educational Research describes itself as "a leading national scientific research institution in the field of education" and "the first and the only independent scientific institution in Serbia that researches into the process of teaching and education". Among other things, it is entrusted with the [...]

Serbia
Website of the Institute for the Advancement of Education and Training (also known as the Institute for the Improvement of Education (IEE)), Serbia. The institute "carries out development, advisory, research and other professional work in preschool, primary and secondary education, with the aim of monitoring, ensuring and improving the [...]

Serbia
Website of the Institute for Education Quality and Evaluation. The institute "performs professional tasks in the field of monitoring and evaluating the level of achievement of general principles, education goals, and learning outcome standards by levels and types of education, (...)." To this end, it has four centers:
1) Center [...]

Serbia
Website of the Pedagogical Institute of the autonomous Serbian province of Vojvodina. The institute has three departments: development, research, and publications. Its responsibilities include teacher training and professional development and the development of educational programs. Among its publications are many freely accessible [...]

Serbia
The Institute for Educational Research describes itself as "a leading national scientific research institution in the field of education" and "the first and the only independent scientific institution in Serbia that researches into the process of teaching and education". Among other things, it is entrusted with the [...]

Serbia; international
"The Center for Open Access in Science (COAS) is a non-profit organization based in Belgrade, Serbia, as an international initiative dedicated to promoting values of free and open access to scientific research and its results. According to this general aim the COAS are publishing, through a mode of completely open [...]

Research history, topics & trends

Serbia
Short text on educational research in Serbia on the occasion of the "European Conference on Educational Research" (ECER) 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

"The tasks in the study are: 1) analyze the development of the methodology of pedagogy in the 19th and early 20th century; 2)analyze the development of the methodology of pedagogy since World War II (1944/45 to 1991/92) 3) analyze the state of the methodology of pedagogy in the last decade of the 20th century; 4) analyze the state of the methodology of pedagogy at the [...]

"In this paper, we aim to present the process of realization of a partnership between two professional communities in different countries devoted to supporting academic institutions in strengthening relationships between teacher education, educational research, and practice. Based on the current situation in the involved partners (academic institutions training pre-service and [...]

Serbia's education system performs well compared to other countries in the Western Balkans. There have been improvements in access to education and Serbia has undertaken major institutional reforms in recent years, such as the introduction of achievement standards at the end of compulsory education, teacher standards and a school evaluation framework. However, progress [...]

"The aim of this article is to present the history of Comparative Education as a scientific and academic discipline in Serbia and to identify factors that influenced ist development either in a positive or a negative way, but also to review the possibilities of its comprehensive academic development. (...) In the first part of this article, basic facts on the history of [...]

Professional journals

Serbia; international
"The Journal of the Institute for Educational Research is a periodical where theoretical, reviewing, and original research works from the field of education are published. The first number of the Journal was published in 1967. Today, the Journal has a status of a scientific review of an international importance, and it is [...]

Serbia; international
"Andragogical Studies is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal, devoted to theoretical, historical, comparative and empirical studies in adult and continuing education, lifelong and lifewide learning." The journal is published by the Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy at the University of Belgrade. The articles are published [...]

Serbia; international
"Studies in Teaching and Education is a journal published by the Pedagogical Society of Serbia and the Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. The first issue of the journal was printed on March 1st 1952." The journal is freely accessible and publishes articles in Serbian [...]

Serbia; international
"The journal focusses on education and finding optimal solutions and effective strategies for teaching innovations from preschool education through primary, secondary and university education to lifelong learning." The journal is published by the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Belgrade. The articles are [...]

Serbia; international
"The Methodical Theory and Practice / Metodička teorija i praksa publishes papers from the sciences and scientific disciplines which research education, teaching and learning at all levels of education with the aim of improving and innovating the teaching process. The Editorial Board is particularly interested in [...]

Serbia; international
"Research in Pedagogy is an international peer-reviewed journal, with an international editorial board. It is devoted to the publishing of original scientific papers which present the results of quantitative and qualitative empirical research, but also theoretical, applied, etc. The journal is published bianually (in [...]

Serbia; international
The Open Journal for Educational Research (OJER) is published by the Center for Open Access in Science (COAS). "COAS is a non-profit organization based in Belgrade, Serbia, as an international initiative dedicated to promoting values of free and open access to scientific research and its results." The journal is published [...]

Other relevant sources

Serbia
Website of the Serbian Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation. The website offers extensive information on the ministry's three areas of expertise, as well as on international cooperation, news, and the ministry's activities. Unfortunately, some subpages are only available in Serbian. [Abstract: Editors of [...]

Serbia
The website of the Serbian Ministry of Education is unfortunately only available in Serbian. It offers information about the ministry's activities, the Serbian education system, statistical data related to the education system, legal regulations, and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Serbia
OECD information page on PISA participant Serbia, with further links to PISA years of participation, PISA results, national reports and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Serbia
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides comprehensive country profiles on education systems in Europe in its "Eurypedia". All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in Eurydice hosts a [...]

Serbia
"The eNauka portal contains data on scientific research organizations in the Republic of Serbia (NIO), affiliated researchers and their research results." [Abstract: website editors' information]

Serbia
The Pedagogical Museum's homepage offers a brief introduction in English, along with three further English links to the collection, museum publications, and the museum's history. Information on current and permanent exhibitions, events, and news is available in Serbian. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]