Research
PU researchers work across faculties to address climate adaptation, digital infrastructure, soil and water protection, forest resilience, cultural memory, and responsible innovation.
Research office
The Office for Research and Partnerships supports grant development, ethics review, data stewardship, field logistics, and international collaboration. The research agenda below is tied to documented challenges in the Serbian Danube Basin and Pannonian lowlands.
Contact research@pu.edu.rsHydrological risk, river logistics, water quality, irrigation demand, and cross-border infrastructure modeling.
Drought adaptation, soil health, crop-water balance, urban heat, and regional food security.
Auditable AI, language technologies, public service design, education tools, and data governance.
Digital humanities work on identity, language, media, and regional heritage.
Research evidence console
Select a node to see the lead lab, current evidence signal, and the outputs students and faculty are building.
Groundwater quality, irrigation salinity, river-basin risk, and public water communication for lowland municipalities.
Satellite, UAV, soil, and farm interview evidence for climate-smart agriculture and crop-stress interpretation.
Monitoring wetland habitat, floodplain vegetation, restoration priorities, and citizen-science biodiversity records.
Responsible growth research on public finance, circular bioeconomy, logistics, and cross-border industry resilience.
Ethnography, minority-language memory, migration narratives, field ethics, and public history for Pannonian communities.
Pannonian Observatory
Designed for faculty studios and partner briefs across the Danube corridor, the observatory keeps field sampling, remote sensing, and public explanation in the same working view.
Field protocol
Teams move from field observations to lab notes, methods review, and partner-facing evidence in one studio cycle.
Evidence base
PU does not treat the Pannonian plain as a generic backdrop. It is the subject: a lowland agricultural, riverine, multilingual, and climate-sensitive region with measurable research needs.
A Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies paper models 2041-2070 scenarios and finds intensifying peak-season water scarcity for spring-planted rainfed crops.
Read study recordBioSense Institute describes work across sensor design, remote sensing, IoT, AI, biosystems, and sustainable agriculture, including the AgroSense platform.
Read institute profileResearch on first-aquifer groundwater in Vojvodina reports mineralization concerns and the potential for soil degradation and yield reduction if irrigation water is unmanaged.
Read article recordThe Ramsar Convention country profile lists 11 Serbian Ramsar sites covering 130,411 hectares, including sites relevant to Danube and Sava floodplain ecology.
Read Ramsar profileResearch clusters
River basin planning, flood risk, drought signals, irrigation demand, water quality, and public infrastructure decisions.
Field-crop resilience, soil fertility, crop stress monitoring, pest risk, and farm decision support.
Lowland forestry, wetland restoration, carbon storage, protected area planning, and biodiversity observation.
AI systems that can be explained, audited, and used responsibly in education, agriculture, health, and public services.
Regional identity, minority languages, cultural memory, migration, media systems, and shared civic narratives.
Applied economics, logistics, clean energy, entrepreneurship, procurement, and regulatory design for resilient growth.
Featured project briefs
Each PU project brief records the question, field methods, datasets, limitations, partner use case, and expected public output.
Maps rainfall-derived soil moisture stress for maize, sunflower, soybean, and wheat systems across selected Serbian Danube sub-basins.
Combines seasonal sampling, farmer interviews, and open maps to identify where groundwater use needs salinity safeguards.
Links protected wetland records, drone imagery, and citizen science observations for floodplain habitat management.
Tests AI tools for accessibility, explainability, bias, and civic usefulness before they are recommended for university or municipal use.
Research infrastructure
Seasonal sampling points for soil moisture, irrigation water, wetland habitat condition, and urban heat observations.
Reproducible notebooks, geospatial dashboards, multilingual explainers, and public dataset documentation.
Support for ethics review, survey design, remote sensing workflows, model validation, and uncertainty communication.
