The project "International Masters and Postgraduate Programme in Materials
Science and Catalysis" (MatCatNet) within the DAAD programme "Academic
Reconstruction of South Eastern Europe" was established in March 2005 between
the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy of Universität Leipzig and two
South Eastern European partners: the Institute of Chemistry of the "Ss. Cyril
and Methodius" University Skopje, Macedonia, and the Faculty of Chemistry
and Chemical Engineering, University "Babes-Bolyai" in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
In 2008, the State University of Tetovo (Macedonia) joined, and since 2011
three further institutions, the universities "Goce Delcev" in Štip
(Macedonia), Niš (Serbia) and Prishtina (Kosovo) are integrated into
the network.
The main objective of the joint project is an internationalised and structurally
improved training within the master and doctorate studies of the partner
institutions in South Eastern Europe with a major focus on the fields of
materials science, advanced synthetic processes and spectroscopic methods
in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, supported by modern theoretical
methods. The exchange of guest professors and scientists, as well as of master
and doctoral students between the partners is part of the programme and
strengthens the scientific cooperation within the network.
