A European research collaboration helped a Serbian university build stronger scientific skills around how organic soil amendments—like compost and manure—affect nutrients and contaminants in the soil. The project showed that pairing hands-on research with conceptual training is the most effective way to grow scientific capacity in under-resourced regions.
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Combining scientist mobility and expert exchanges with applied research produced multi-scale insights into how organic amendments age in soil and transform organic matter over time.
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Collaborative training substantially improved analytical confidence and interdisciplinary reasoning at the University of Novi Sad, demonstrating measurable institutional capacity growth.
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The twinning model worked best when conceptual training and hands-on research were tightly integrated rather than treated as separate activities.
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