Research results of the COMPASS project team members are published within the two volume conference proceedings of the „The Dialogues on China – Harvesting the winds of change: China and the global actors”. The second volume includes the keynote speech and five papers presented at the special dedicated COMPASS panel of the second day of the conference:

• “Serbian development path of FDIs – Navigating between the EU and China” by Katarina Zakić (keynote speech)
• “Serbia and China: From strategic partnership towards community with shared future” by Ivona Lađevac
• “The COMPASS Dataset: A new approach to indexing Serbia’s policy trends” by Nenad Stekić
• “Serbia between China and the EU: Analysis of foreign trade commodities exchange” by Sanja Filipović
• “Serbia’s security relations with the EU and China in the evolving international environment” by Branislav Đorđević and Pavle Nedić
• “A decade of Serbia’s EU accession process: Implications for Sino-Serbian political relations” by Aleksandar Mitić

The articles are available here.

As one of the COMPASS project outputs, the conference proceedings from the Fourth international scientific conference held in the “Dialogues on China” format, under the title “Harvesting the Winds of Change: China and the Global Actors” in Belgrade on October 10-11, were published in two volumes.

The conference proceedings include 53 articles in total and were edited by project team members Aleksandar Mitić and Katarina Zakić. The second day of the conference was titled COMPASS Day and included presentations of the project results and research articles by all project team members., which are available to read in the second volume.

“The Dialogues on China – Harvesting the winds of change: China and the global actors” conference proceedings are available at the following links: Volume 1 and Volume 2.

Research Fellow of the Institute of International Politics and Economics and COMPASS project team member, dr Aleksandar Mitić, spoke at the international symposium “China-Europe Cooperation in the Era of Great Transformation” in Budapest, organized by the Eurasia Center of the John Von Neumann University from Budapest and the Fudan University from Shanghai.

During his presentation which focused on Serbia-China relations, he presented main theoretical background of the COMPASS project, research activities and results.

Regular bi-monthly COMPASS Project team meeting was held on 14 November 2024.

At the meeting the team summarized the activities and results of the first year of project implementation. Additionally, project team members talked about future outputs, including the Yearbook and the corresponding event.

The Fourth international scientific conference in the “Dialogues on China” format was organized on October 10-11, 2024, by the Institute of International Politics and Economics (IIPE) and the Institute of European Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IES CASS). Held under the title “Harvesting the Winds of Change: China and the Global Actors”, was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, H.E. Marko Đurić and included more than 80 participants from 27 countries over 11 panels.

The second day of the conference was titled COMPASS day and started with a welcome speech and special presentation of the project COMPASS by Principal Investigator Dr. Ivona Lađevac. Dr. Katarina Zakić, a COMPASS team member, gave a keynote speech on the COMPASS day the topic “Serbian development path of FDIs – Navigating between the EU and China”.

Additionally, a special panel titled “Innovation practices in foreign policy research – COMPASS Project” was devoted to the results of the project and saw five presentations by project team members who presented their current research within the COMPASS framework. Ivona Lađevac spoke on the topic “Serbia and China: From strategic partnership towards community with shared future”, Nenad Stekić’s subject was “The COMPASS Dataset: A new approach to indexing Serbia’s policy trends”, Branislav Đorđević and Pavle Nedić presented their research on “Serbia’s security relations with the EU and China in the evolving international environment”, Sanja Filipović spoke on the subject of “Serbia between China and the EU: Analysis of foreign trade commodities exchange”, and Aleksandar Mitić presented “A decade of Serbia’s EU accession process: Implications for Sino-Serbian political relations”.   

A delegation of the Committee for Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, led by Mr. Yang Xiaobo, visited the Institute of International Politics and Economics.

Researchers from the Regional Centre “Belt and Road” participated in the meeting. Dr. Katarina Zakić, the head of the Centre, introduced the members of the delegation to the history and work of the Institute of International Politics and Economics. Institute researchers and members of the delegation discussed contemporary relations between the Republic of Serbia and the People’s Republic of China, focusing particularly on the outcomes of the COMPASS project. They presented the work of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia and highlighted how the COMPASS project team successfully secured the opportunity to pursue their project amidst significant competition from other proposals in the social and humanities fields.

COMPASS project results and activities promoted at the Dialogues on China 2024 Conference. Fourth edition of the Dialogues on China Conference was held in Belgrade on October 10-11 under the title “Harvesting the winds of change: China and the global actors”. The event, largest academic conference held in Europe this year on the topic of China, was organized within the COMPASS project, with the second day dedicated to the project research results and analyses. The conference participants, guests and visitors were introduced to the project activities, including the COMPASS database, and the project promo materials were disseminated throughout the conference.

On October 3, 2024 Ivona Lađevac, Principal Investigator, and Pavle Nedić, project team member, presented the COMPASS Project to two delegations from Chinese Universities, Shandong and Hohai, within the educational program “X-Cultural Leadership and Cultivation of Internationalized High-End Management Talents” organized by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences. The members of the delegations had the opportunity to hear about projects goals, activities, and outputs.

Within the project activities of the COMPASS project the training for data indexing in the COMPASS database was held at the premises of the Institute of International Politics and Economics.

The training for junior researchers was held by Dr Nenad Stekić, a project team member, and was focused on categorizing and assigning risk assessments on the contingencies included in the COMPASS database.

Forum on the topic of Chinese modernization and the community of China and Serbia with a common future in the new era was organized by the Institute of International Politics and Economics, China Media Group and Ušće Media.

At the forum, COMPASS team members presented the idea behind the COMPASS project, as well as its main components and research results so far.