Final Agenda of
SECOND CONFERENCE ON GREEN ENGINEERING, SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY
22-25 April 2025
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy
April 22nd, 2025 (Tuesday)
18h – Registration and welcome cocktail in honor of Earth Day
April 23rd, 2025 (Wednesday)
8.30h – 9.30h Registration
9.00h – 9.30h Poster setting up (TMF Hall)
9.30h – 9.45h Welcome and Opening Remarks (Dean, Honorable Guests) (TMF Amphitheatre)
9.45h – 11.30h Plenary session I (TMF Amphitheatre)
9.45h – 10.40h Prof. Dr. Vasant Kumar
Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UК
Title: “Scientific Input into Circular Economy of Battery Technologies”
10.40h – 11.30h Prof. Dr. Atanas Kochov
INTEGRATION Consulting Group, Frankfurt, Germany
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje,
Title: “Green industrialization for sustainable development”
11.30h - 12.30h Coffee / Cocktail break (TMF club)
12.30h – 15.00h Invited lectures Session I (TMF Amphitheatre)
12.30h – 12.50h Nikola Dodov
Director, Fond for Innovation and Technological Development
12.50h – 13.10h Dr. Smilja Markovik
Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Title: The role of oxygen vacancies in (photo)electrocatalytic properties of zinc oxide
13.10h – 13.30h Mag. Roland Ziegler
Director Energy & Sales EVN Macedonia AD Skopje
Title: Energy Sales 2.0 – How Renewables change the sales and procurement of electricity in the Business Segment
13.30h – 13.50h Goce Cvetkovski
Technical Director in TITAN Usje
Title: Circular economy in cement industry – Case of Titan Usje
13.50h – 14.10h Prof. Suzana Gotovac Atlagic
Faculty of Natural Science, Banja Luka, BIH
Title: Green nanotechnology
14.10h – 14.30h M.Sc. Ana Kranfilova Maznevska
Waste Management Department, Ministry of Еnvironment and Physical Planning
Title: Packaging and packaging waste management
14.30h – 14.50h Dr. Federico Olivieri
Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council of Italy
Title: Green smart materials for the conservation of cultural heritage
14.50h – 15.10h Prof. Alexander Karamanov
Institute of Physical Chemistry "Rostislav Kaishev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Title: Innovative building materials based on inorganic industrial wastes
15.10h – 15.30h Prof. Perica Paunovik
Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
Title: Green materials in photocatalysis
15.00h – 16.30h Poster Session I
April 24th, 2025 (Thursday)
10.00h – 11.30h Plenary session II (TMF Amphitheatre)
10.00h – 10.45h Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mihaela Girtan
Physics Department, Angers University, France
Title: "On the Properties of Perovskites Thin Films for Solar Cells"
10.45 – 11.30h Dr. Florian Kretschmer
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Title: "Wastewater as a Resource"
11.30h – 12.30h Coffee / Cocktail break (TMF club)
12.30h – 15.00h Oral Lectures II (TMF Amphitheatre)
12.30h – 12.45h Akram Balaswad
“Sustainable Design and Mechanical Evaluation of Al-Based Bio-composite For Structural Applications”
12.45h – 13.00h Maša Knez Marevci, Željko Knez, David Hvalec
“Formulation of compounds with Brij S100 and PEG 4000 using the PGSSTM processes"
13.00h – 13.15h Cem Tokatli
“Assessing Eutrophication Risks in İznik Lake (Türkiye) Using Modified Biodegradable Pollution Indices”
13.15h – 13.30h Delia Piscoiu, Simona Rada, Horațiu Vermeșan
“Recycling of spent electrodes from lead acid battery by adding of copper and antimony oxides”
13.30h – 13.45h Besa Shahini
“Economic incentives and public awareness: Dual engines for driving carbon mitigation”
13.45h – 14.00h I-Chien Chen, Yu-Syuan Wu, Yeong-Her Wang, Kuan-Wei Lee
“Green Engineering on III-V Compound Semiconductors“
14.00h – 14.15h Fatos Rexhepi, Artan Gashi
“Determination of the fully oxidized oil content using FTIR spectroscopy and multivariate calibration”
14.15h – 14.30h Ana Nestoroska, Mila Sazdova, Despina Kostadinova, Donka Doneva Shapceska, Darko Dimitrovski,
“Utilization of brewery spent grains in combination with food waste for cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus”
14.30h – 14.45h Cem Tokatli
“An Investigation of Water Quality in the Largest Lake of the Marmara Region”
14.45h – 15.00h Ljupco Doncev
“Decarbonization of cement industry – Case of Titan Usje”
15.00h – 15.15h Zarife Bajraktari Gashi, Izet Ibrahimi
“Research into the use of fuels in rotary kilns “
Ljupco Doncev, “Decarbonization of cement industry – Case of Titan Usje”
15.00h – 16.30h Poster session II
April 25th, 2025 (Friday)
STUDENT HACKATHON
TOPIC: Green ideas for the revalorization of bio and industrial waste materials
10.00h – 11.00h Company presentations
10.00h – 10.20h To be announced
Motivational Speech for Students
10.20h – 10.40h Aneta Petrovska-Rusomaroski
Head of Innovations, Sustainability and Environmental Protection at EVN Macedonia
Title: Creativity and Innovation
10.40h – 11.00h Frosina Pandurska-Dramikjanin
Program Coordinator of DBU for North Macedonia
Title: The МОЕ CEE Fellowship Program by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
11.00h – 13.00h HACKATON - presentation of student ideas
(5 min oral presentation + 5 min questions)
11.00h – 11.10h Marija Tasić, Jelena Stanojević, Jelena Zvezdanović, Ljiljana
Stanojević, Sanja Petrović, Dragan Cvetković
“Green synthesized silver nanoparticles characterized by XRD and EDAX analysis”
11.10h – 11.20h Aleksandra Milenković, Slavčo Aleksovski, Karmina
Miteva, Jelena Stanojević, Dragan Cvetković, Vesna Nikolić, Ljiljana Stanojević
“Antioxidant activity of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) fruit essential oils and hydrolates obtained by modified Clevenger type hydrodistillation"
11.20h – 11.30h Katarina Stanojević, Aleksandra Milenković, Ljiljana Stanojević,
Dragana Pavlović, Jelena Matejić, Jelena Zvezdanović
“Anti-inflammatory activity of Geranium macrorrhizum L. leaves hidrolate"
11.30h – 11.40h Jelena Hinić-Jordanovska, Katja Zendelska
“Anti-inflammatory activity of Geranium macrorrhizum L. leaves hidrolate"
11.40h – 11.50h Pavel Trpkovski, Despina Ivanova
“Myceenix”
11.50h – 12.00h Lea Nikolova, Angelina Djinova
“Konstrukcija na aktivna zastita I podobruvanje na vozduhot”
12.00h – 12.10h Ema Spirova, Mila Ivanovska
“VANTABLACK”
12.10h – 12.20h Sara Gorgieva, Stefan Golubov
“GREEN GUARD”
12.20h – 12.30h Jovan Dukmedjiev
“Metalni materijali”
12.30h – 12.40h Viktorija Fernandez
“From Tomato Waste to Nutritious Muffins: A Sustainable Approach to Food Upcycling”
