Preliminary 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
The final agenda will be published on April 10th, 2025.
April 22nd, 2025 (Tuesday)
18h – 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 - 13.00h Coffee / Cocktail break (TMF club)
13.00h – 15.00h Invited lectures Session I (TMF Amphitheatre)
13.00h – 13.15h Nikola Dodov
Director, Fond for Innovation and Technological Development
13.15h – 13.35h Dr. Smilja Markovik
Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Title: The role of oxygen vacancies in (photo)electrocatalytic properties of zinc oxide
13.35h – 13.50h Mag. Roland Ziegler
Manager of EVN Macedonia Elektrosnabduvanje DOOEL, Skopje
Title: Energy Sales 2.0 – How Renewables change the sales and procurement of electricity in the Business Segment
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 Prof. Perica Paunovik
Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
Title: Green materials in photocatalysis
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
15.00h – 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
14.30h – 14.45h
14.45h – 15.00h
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 Sveto Janevski, M6
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
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”
