Participation in the 4th ERAZ conference took 227 researchers with the paper representing:

• 21 different countries
• 80 different universities
• 69 eminent faculties
• 8 scientific institutes
• 17 colleges
• various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc.

In the Conference Proceedings of the ERAZ 2018 conference 97 papers and 30 abstracts have been published on more than 900 pages.

Third international scientific conference ERAZ 2017 was held on June 8, 2017 in Metropol Palace Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was opened by Miodrag Brzaković – PhD, associate professor at the Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance – Belgrade, Serbia. Also in the opening session of the conference participants were welcomed by Vuk Bevanda – PhD, president of the Organizing Committee of ERAZ 2017 – 3rd international scientific conference and associate professor at the Faculty of Business Studies, John Naisbitt University from Belgrade, Serbia.

Participation in the conference took a total of 132 researchers with the paper- representing:

• 17 different countries
• 46 different universities
• 45 eminent faculties
• 5 scientific institutes
• 10 colleges
• various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc

​In the Conference Proceedings of the ERAZ 2017 conference 77 papers and 6 abstracts have been published on more than 650 pages.

Second international scientific conference ERAZ 2016 was held on June 16, 2016 in Hotel Palace in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was opened by Miro Simonič- PhD, professor at the Faculty of Commercial and Business Sciences from Celje, Slovenia. Also in the opening session of the conference participants were welcomed by Vuk Bevanda – PhD, president of organizing committee of ERAZ 2016 international scientific conference and professor at the Faculty of Business Studies, John Naisbitt University from Belgrade, Serbia.

Participation in the conference took a total of 104 researchers – 28 from Serbia and 76 from abroad representing:

• 15 different countries
• 32 different universities
• 28 eminent faculties
• two scientific institutes
• 7 colleges
• various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc.

In the Conference Proceedings of the ERAZ 2016 conference 69 papers have been published on more than 600 pages.

The conference program ERAZ 2015 was carefully designed and combined presentation of the latest scientific achievements, interactive discussion and other forms of interpersonal exchange of experiences. The main topic of the conference is being processed through the following topics.

Other institutions, participants in the conference:

1. High Agricultural School, Saba
2. College of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, Belgrade
3. High Vocational School of Management and Business Communications, Sremski Karlovci
4. Vocational School, Celje
5. College of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship

1. Ministry of Finance, Republic of Macedonia
2. Ministry of Defense, Republic of Macedonia
3. Ministry of Defense, Republic of Serbia
4. The municipality of Presevo
5. Center for Social Work, Pancevo
6. JP “Post of Serbia”, Belgrade
7. Sparkasse Bank, Macedonia
8. Libyan Embassy in Serbia
9. Agency for the implementation of bankruptcy procedures “Stojković Office”, Novi Sad
10. Law Office “Vera Čabarkapa”, Belgrade
11. Siemens Belgrade
12. Doo Montenegro Art
13. Credit Agricole S.A. A.D.
14. Vip Macedonia
15. City Administration of Nis
16. PUC Directorate for public transport the city of Nis
17. Dunav Osiguranje ad

From a total of 30 papers whose authors are employed in research institutions headquartered in the Republic of Serbia, nine (30%) were exempted from paying the registration fee since they present the results of research within the scientific projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia which supported the ERAZ 2015 conference.

These projects are:

• OI 179001 – Organizational and information support system of quality management as a key factor for increasing the competitiveness of our companies and their rapid integration in the EU and the world market;
• OI 179066 – Improving the competitiveness of public and private sector through competencies networking in the process of integration of Serbia into European Union;
• III 47010 – Social transformations in the process of European integration – a multidisciplinary approach;
• III 47004 – Improving public policies in Serbia in order to improve the social security of citizens and sustainable economic growth;
• III 45003 – Optoelectronic nano-dimensional systems – the path to the application;
• III 44006 – The development of new information and communication technologies, using advanced mathematical methods, with applications in medicine, telecommunications, energy, protection of national heritage and education.

Conclusions of ERAZ 2015 Conference

Steady growth can not be an adequate response to the global economic problems. Solution is sustainable development, which in addition to economic growth, highlights the future.

Besides economic and legislative instruments, education and information are important instruments of the national strategies for achieving the sustainability.

Sustainable development should be promoted through formal, non-formal and lifelong learning, and educators must have the competences to include the theme of sustainable development in the learning process.
For sustainable development, in addition to developed science and technology, additional necessary developmental prerequisites are: a new system of human values, culture, ethics, morality, law …

Sustainable development needs to integrate past experience, current practice and future vision. Only the development that takes into account the future is development that serves everyone and is development. Sustainable development refers to the protection of health and the environment, the prosperity of the economy and society, and as such is important to everyone.
Creating competitive advantages of organizations certainly applies to social and environmental aspects of the business, which are in the shadow of the economic aspect. By applying the new approach to business, in which core are technological innovations, sustainable development of the organization could be ensured and create long-term benefits for both – the organization itself, and the community.

​ERAZ 2015 conference – evaluation

Judging on the basis of the opinion of 18% of the ERAZ 2015 conference participants who voluntarily filled out the questionnaire and gave their opinion on the conference according to the following elements: the conference agenda, participants expertise, quality of presentation, type of presentation, the pace of the conference, the organization of the conference, to what extent participants’ expectations were satisfied, and overall opinion about the conference; using a scale of 1 – unsatisfactory to 5 – excellent; the first regional scientific conference on sustainable economic development was more than successful.

The highest grade participants gave for the organization of the conference – 4.56, and the lowest scores were about quality of presentations and method of presenting, 3.56 and 3.67 respectively. Overall conference score was 4.12.