Purpose
VANU is the academy of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Its main aim is to transmit traditions in sciences and arts of the multicultural and multiethnic area through cooperation with other academies and institutions. Its secondary goal is to improve living conditions in the Vojvodina region by using the spiritual and natural resources of Vojvodina.
VANU as a regional academy, with ambition to grow into a mid-European one, is oriented to the value system of the area and surroundings in which it acts, starting with certain principles. It sees globalization as unavoidable in respect of standards of scientific and technological development, but it has to preserve the values of the area, nations and their cultures and traditions in so far as they are in accordance with humanism and tolerance.
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