Center for scientific research and publishing activity
To realize their professional, academic and artistic potential, full and part-time professors, docents, assistants, teaching assistants, as well as master’s and doctoral students of FSU have at their disposal a unique Center for Research Activity

Through collegial support, professional connections, joint art projects and directed research, the Center is a place where the FSU academic community simultaneously achieves and enjoys the highest standards of scientific excellence, art and ethics.
Processes and activities within the Center
The Center for Scientific Research and Publishing regularly initiates a series of processes and performs a variety of activities ranging from the creation of scientific and publishing policies, through enabling conditions and resources for the realization of various scientific projects and undertakings, to specific activities necessary for the performance of everyday scientific and publishing work:
- organization, maintenance and monitoring of international and domestic scientific conferences and events;
- initiation and implementation of domestic and international scientific research projects;
publication of scientific and professional monographs, proceedings of scientific gatherings and conferences, and thematic proceedings;
- initiation, monitoring and publication of professional journals in various scientific fields;
initiating and realizing the creation and publication of textbooks, practicals, scripts and chronology;
- establishment, maintenance and expansion of the network of organizations cooperating with the Center;
- cooperation with relevant scientific and educational institutions in the country and abroad;
consulting services when determining and developing individual strategies for scientific research work;
- making plans for scientific research work and planning the publication of teachers’ works;
financing and provision of resources for scientific research work of teachers;
support in the creation and publication of scientific works and research results (translation, proofreading, design, preparation for printing, distribution);
- creation of conditions for team scientific research work through connecting colleagues from different fields, encouraging co-authored projects and works;
- defining the scientific research and publishing policy through consultation with the teaching and research staff and in accordance with the current categorization of scientific journals, decisions of parent scientific boards and the valid Rulebook on the procedure, method of evaluation, and quantitative expression of scientific research results of researchers of the competent ministry;
- establishing and coordinating the cooperation of teachers with the aim of publishing works necessary to meet the requirements of teaching competence and accreditation of institutions;
supporting, directing and encouraging the development of FSU’s young teaching and research students;
- professional and professional education of teachers and associates through the organization of lectures, workshops and seminars;
- creating a database with open access to the scientific works of FSU teachers with the aim of increasing the visibility of scientific research results and improving author citations;
- creation of a database of all teachers with the areas of their scientific activity and research, a bibliography of scientific works and current scientific teaching titles and classifications;
- enabling free access to scientific databases and modern software with the aim of improving and facilitating scientific and professional research;
- creation of an online database of scientific research publications from various fields and their free use;
- creating a special library of FSU editions and publications;
promoting the development of scientific research and professional research work among students of academic master’s and doctoral studies, that is, master’s vocational studies;
- promotion of science, scientific results and research, as well as the ethics of scientific research work, before the general public.
Numerous resources available within the Center
The center provides comprehensive support, rich resources and modern tools that enable flawless development of individual and team scientific research and artistic work. The best conditions allow teachers to carry out all phases of scientific studies without difficulty and in accordance with the highest standards, from research work, through the organization of scientific conferences, to the publication and presentation of results.
A place where new art is created, new discoveries are born and creatively changes the world around us
As an important part of FSU, the Center for Scientific Research and Publishing Activity enables individual and team work on important research and artistic projects, the breakthrough of new scientific discoveries and the generation of knowledge that will not only change the understanding of art, but also have an important impact on the entire social community making is a nicer place to live. All FSU students have at their disposal the rich knowledge, results and resources of the Center that will significantly improve and facilitate their studies and help them achieve their artistic and scientific ambitions. In addition, they have a unique opportunity to get involved in the work of the Center in accordance with their academic interests and needs and thus contribute to the unique creative achievements that come from the Center.
Together we achieve valuable artistic achievements, scientific discoveries and make the world around us a place of creativity and change.