As part of the Europe Day celebrations, the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia is organizing a traveling exhibition titled “Innovation on the Move”, visiting several cities across Serbia and open to the public. Residents of Novi Sad were the first to experience it at the Svilara Cultural Station on Thursday and Friday, 15–16 May.
The “Innovation on the Move” exhibition features two main segments: a presentation of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and a Virtual Reality (VR) corner.
Visitors were guided through the CERN segment by young scientists and associates of the Centre for the Promotion of Science, the exhibition’s creator. The presentation explores the origins of the universe, dark matter and energy, the role of the Higgs boson, and how the world’s largest machine—the Large Hadron Collider—operates. A special focus is placed on the contribution of Serbian scientists to major experiments. Yugoslavia was one of CERN’s 12 founding members, and the 1954 founding act bears the signature of Serbian scientist Pavle Savić.
Visitors also discovered that CERN scientists invented the most widely used internet service—the World Wide Web (www). Originally developed to enable scientific collaboration, it later became an essential tool for people around the globe.
The VR corner, created in cooperation with an award-winning VR/XR producer from Estonia, offered visitors an immersive journey through the intersection of science, art, and storytelling. Through VR headsets, they explored deep space, prehistoric caves, volcanoes, subatomic particles, and childhood dreams.
The VR program included two short films from CERN, four European science films, and two animated videos for children.
In addition, the Centre for the Promotion of Science held workshops for students, offering engaging explanations about the building blocks of the universe and the invisible forces that shape it.
The “Innovation on the Move” caravan continues across Serbia with upcoming stops in Čačak (19 May), Kragujevac (23 May), Pančevo (26 May), Niš (27–28 May), and Novi Pazar (29–30 May).
