The European Center for Peace and Development University for Peace established by the United Nations, an international educational and research organization headquartered in Belgrade, Regional Mediterranean Institute for International Postgraduate Studies and Development Research of ECPD, based in Podgorica, in the framework of the ECPD International Program of Transfer of Knowledge System, cooperating with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia, the Ministry of Health of Montenegro, Ministry of Health of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic of Srpska, Long Island University (USA), VAMK University (Finland), International Centre for Integrative Medicine (Belgrade) and South-Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) organizes
X JUBILEE ECPD INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON
YOUTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH –
A KEY FACTOR OF SOCIETY'S SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT
(Hotel „Mediteran“ − Budva, 14 – 18 September 2020)
We have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the work of this year's already traditional, ECPD International School „Reproductive Health Promotion and Care“ (hereinafter: School). Preserving and promoting reproductive health is of particular importance to every society, especially one characterized by low birth rates. Therefore, measures to improve adolescent reproductive health, healthy motherhood and address infertility are important elements of strategic action aiming to achieve free replacement of generations.
The development of civilization has led to changes in many factors that can affect human reproduction: medical, social, economic, cultural, ethical, religious and legal factors are just some of the possible determinants of human reproduction. We can say with certainty that the demographic potential of this area is largely conditioned by a declining trend in fertility rates, low fertility and insufficient population recovery. Such poor tendencies are reflected in the demographic recession, where in addition to natural depopulation, there is an increasingly intense aging process, which causes disturbances in the vital structures of the population, with many negative repercussions.
The event entitled "Towards a Better Demographic Future in Serbia", held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on February 27, 2017, outlined some significant aspects of demographic trends. It was said that negative demographic trends became a precursor problem, a problem from which, directly or indirectly, explicitly or implicitly, other problems arose, in other words, the problem of all problems. Today, these space is characterized by a negative natural increase with emigration measured in the tens of thousands.
EUROSTAT projections indicate that population in most Central and Eastern European countries will be significantly reduced by 2050. UN projections show the same dark picture. A 2014 United Nations report on the world population status stated that since the 1994 Cairo conference, until today, the planet's population has increased from 5.7 billion to 7.2 billion. According to population projections over the next half century, it is expected to continue growing in numbers. However, mostly undeveloped regions of the world can expect population growth in the future, so that by 2050, it is expected that over 80% of world population growth will account for Africa's population growth. On the other hand, developed parts of the world will continue to face the problem of insufficient birth. When it comes to the level of economic development, the Western Balkan region belongs to the underdeveloped part of the world, but in demographic terms it is part of the developed world. Given this briefly, the question arises: Is there anything more important or prioritized than worrying about survival?
Starting from the fact that the multisectoral approach to reproductive health care is most effective, the School's program is designed so that the trainees can be physicians (of family medicine, gynaecologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians and other specialists), educators, social workers, sociologists, demographers and other profiles of professionals engaged in this area.
President of the School Council is Prof. Dr. Slavica Đukić Dejanović, Minister in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, in charge of Demography and Population Policy. Director of the School is Prof. Dr. Nenad V. Babić, Medical Faculty, University of Banja Luka, and Co-Directors are Prof. Dr. Vesna Kopitović, ECPD UPUN Professor and Prof. Dr. Bojana Berić, Long Island University (LIU), New York, USA.
Preliminary Program
The School Program encompasses following topics:
• Modern approach to reproductive health
• Reproductive health of the population in the countries of SE Europe
• Reproductive Health Promotion and Care as an Important Factor of
Pronatality Policies - Project and Project results
• Sexual and Reproductive Health - Matter of Life and Death
• Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents - Global challenge
• Youth Reproductive Health Protection and Promotion of Pronatality Policy measures
• (In)Direct Impacts on Human Reproduction - historical, psychological and economic aspects
• Reproductive Health - the First Precondition of Survival
The program is internationally and nationally accredited.
Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Slavica Đukić Dejanović, Minister in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, in charge of Demography and Population Policy
Prof. Dr. Bojana Berić, Head of Department of Public Health, School of Health Professions LIU-Brooklyn, New York, USA
Prof. Dr. Nenad V. Babić, Medical Faculty, University of Banja Luka
Prof. Dr. Vesna Kopitović, ECPD UPUN Professor, Special Hospital “Ferona”, Novi Sad
Prof. Dr. Ana Mitrović Jovanović, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, President of the Republic Expert Committee for Biomedically Supported Fertilization
Prof. Dr. Mila Goldner Vukov, Member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Consultant in Maternal Mental Health Whirinaki
Ass. Prof. Dr. Milena Papić-Obradović, Head of Department for Scientific and Research Development, Gynecological Obstetric Clinic “Narodni front”, Belgrade
Prof. Dr. Sanja Sibinčić, Medical Faculty, University of Banja Luka
Prof. Dr. Snežana Vidaković, Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic of the Clinical Center of Serbia
· Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Trninić Pjević, Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina
Ass. Prof. Dr. Stevan Milatović, Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina
Prof. Dr. Olivera Kontić Vučinić, Clinic of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the Clinical Centre of Serbia
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Kopitović, Neurology Clinic of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina
Dr. sci. med. Katarina Sedlecki, Republic Center for Family Planning at the Institute for Maternal and Child Health Care of Serbia “Dr Vukan Čupić”
Dr. Daniela Telebak, Health Insurance Fund of Republic of Srpska
Doc. Dr. Sc. Irena Sara Manović, ECPD UN University for Peace, Belgrade
Aim of the School
The primary aim of this School of the ECPD UN University for Peace is to enable participants to acquire knowledge from renowned internationally recognized authorities on the most significant aspects of reproductive health and to use and apply this knowledge and experience most appropriately in practice.
School Organization
The lectures are held each day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. They also include specialized workshops and panel discussions.
The participants of the ECPD International School will obtain the course materials and latest literature necessary for effective attendance of the School. Authorized presentations will be published in Proceedings.
School Certificate
The School participants will receive an internationally valid Certificate issued by the ECPD UN University for Peace, together with the Curriculum and detailed plan of the lectures as well as the list of lecturers.
Application Form and Participation Fee
The participation fee for the ECPD International School is 490 EUR.
All applications should be sent latest by 31 August 2020 to: The European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) University for Peace established by the United Nations, Terazije 41, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; Eax: +381 11 3240-673, +381 11 3234-082; E-mail: ecpd@Eunet.rs; Website: www.ecpd.org.rs
Hotel Accommodation
European Center for Peace and Development of the University for Peace UN has provided Accommodation for the participants at the Hotel „Mediteran” in Budva (www. montenegrostars.com, tel: +382 33 773 777), in which the School is going to be held, at preferential rates:
- 85 EUR per day for a single room and
- 65 EUR for a double room, per person.
Together with this letter of invitation you will find enclosed the hotel reservation form. We advise you to book your accommodation through the ECPD Secretariat.
