Very successfully organized and covered by the media, the founding meeting of the ASHRAE Student Branch at the University of Novi Sad was held on 30th November 2009 in the conference hall of the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, in the presence of over 60 people: students ASHRAE members, professors and the Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Mr. V.R. Holness, ASHRAE President and official of the ASHRAE Danube Chapter, the President of the Serbian Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (KGH), guests from the universities of Niš and Kragujevac and others.

After the formal part of the meeting and speech made by the hosts and guests, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed by and between ASHRAE, the Serbian Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (KGH), the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the University of Novi Sad and the ASHRAE Student Branch of University of Novi Sad. The Memorandum was signed by Prof. Dr. Ilija Ćosić, the Dean,  Mr. Holness, Prof. Dr. Branislav Todorović the President of the Serbian Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (KGH) and Mr. Aleksandar Anđelković, the Student Branch President.

After the foundation of the first ASHRAE Student Branch in  Kragujevac in February 2009, the second one will be founded at the University of Novi Sad by involvement of student Mr. Aleksandar Andjelkovic and its advisor Prof. Dr.  Branislav Todorović, the President of the Serbian Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (KGH). The founding ceremony will be held on 30th November 2009 at the conference hall of the Faculty of  Technical Sciences of Novi Sad in the presence of students – ASHRAE members, professors, the Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Mr. Holness, ASHRAE President and the Danube Chapter official and guests from other universities.

The formal ceremony will be followed by the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding and a press conference, while the working part of the meeting will include the presentation of the ASHRAE Student Branch activities and a cocktail in the Teachers’ Club.

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This year again we shall have an opportunity to greet the current ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) President, Mr. Gordon V.R. Holness,  at the 40th jubilee international HVAC&R congress.

We have hosted many ASHRAE presidents at our congresses and it is important for us that this good  tradition continues. Mr. Holness will spend one week  in Serbia and,  in addition to his participation at the congress, where he will greet  the participants at the congress opening and hold a lecture on energy efficiency in existing buildings, he will participate in promotion of the ASHRAE Student Branch in Novi Sad, address the members of the ASHRAE Danube Chapter, etc.

Mr. Holness was born in England, where he received his education and worked as a Professional Mechanical Engineer – Consultant. He moved to Canada and later to the USA.

The establishment and formal beginning of the activity of the first ASHRAE Student Branch University of Kragujevac- Danube was marked for the future generation in the August issue of ASHRAE Journal – subsection ASHRAE Insights,  which reports on the events and news within this biggest professional association of air-conditioning engineers.

The activity of the students from the University of Kragujevac and their mentor, professor Milorad Bojić,  initiated and supported by the Serbian Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning and the ASHRAE Danube Charter, was presented to the professional community in May 2009 on the Internet pages of the Serbian Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (KGH), and then in a review of the scientific and professional journal »KGH«, a journal  of the Serbian Union of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers and Technicians (SMEITS) and the Serbian Society for HVAC&R.