Even though small in size, Serbia is filled with bright young (and young at heart) minds who are trying to make the world a better place. While everybody knows we are a nation of sportsmen, not much is known about our great inventors living in this day and age. And we are about to change that! Watch out Tesla, there are new kids on the block.
Nikola Tepić
Speaking of Tesla, first we will meet his namesake – Nikola Tepić, a wunderkind and a „Turkic World Science Olympics“ runner-up from Belgrade.
For his 19 years, he already managed to bring home more than 40 medals from various competitions in math, physics, geography, even dance, and this year he landed a prestigious St. Sava Award.
But this young scientist found his place on our top Serbian inventors’ list due to the fact that he invented a slowly dissolving fertilizer by encapsulating urea.
The regular water-soluble fertilizers dissolve in 20 seconds, and the plants only utilize a small part, where the rest of it ends up in the subterranean waters. Nikola invented a slowly dissolving fertilizer that releases small amounts of urea which plants immediately utilize, and the capsule can last up to 120 hours.
During his experiment, the plants that had capsules grew 4 times larger than the ones who had none, making this invention highly applicable in agriculture, and absolutely natural. Plants with capsules also required less watering, which is beneficial for water saving.
Less pollution, more efficient fertilizing – Nikola, keep up the good work!
Nikola Cvejin
Let’s meet yet another, but entirely unique Nikola. Nikola Cvejin is a young student from Žablje who has already patented 5 of his inventions, and for which he received numerous accolades and awards.
His latest invention could be a huge hit in Serbian agriculture. Nikola invented a remote controlled robot for dusting and aerial spraying of crops.
With this invention, Serbian farmers don’t have to inhale and be exposed to dangerous chemicals.
The trouble is, face masks can only protect them for about an hour, and spraying can last several hours. That’s the main reason why this invention could revolutionize crop dusting and protect farmers.
This is a one of a kind robot in the whole world who could do this, and it’s invented by a Serbian genius.
Stefan Velja
Stefan Velja (22) is a young inventor that created his life-saving invention even before he went to college. He patented a stent that catches and breaks the thrombs – blood cloths. The idea is simple in theory – you insert a stent and secure it to a blood vessel, and if the blood cloth hits it, it breaks it down.
Simple, effective and lifesaving. His invention won the gold medal, an award on the International Eureka Contest in Brussels in 2014, the Order of the Crown of the Kingdom of Belgium, and the Gold Plaque of the Moscow Institute for Innovation.
Since his father had a medical issue regarding a blood clot, that gave him the idea and sufficient motivation to do something about it. Stefan is a very modest student who just wishes his invention would be used in medicine and would indeed save lives one day. And we too welcome this idea, and wouldn’t want nothing more than to see it in action.
Miloš Radović
And now, onto another peer who wants to change things in medicine. Miloš Radović, a young inventor from Kragujevac is an 18-year-old who is currently working on an intelligent arm – a touch sensitive and affordable invention that’s intended for the disabled people.
He wishes to stay in Serbia and continue working on his projects, and he even turned down a Bosch scholarship from prestigious universities abroad.
He wishes to make his invention affordable for people from the Balkan region since the alternatives are much more expensive and often unattainable.
Fun Fact: Last year he was called into Fiat car factory to take a look at a broken-down assembly line robot – and he successfully repaired it! That speaks volumes about his genius and passion for inventing.
All we can say to Miloš is: we would really like to shake your intelligent hand, young inventor.
Ostoja Rajić
Belonging to a young at heart generation, Ostoja Rajić is a seasoned poet and inventor who has a lot of patents, especially in the field of energy saving. Renewable energy sources are his passion.
One of his inventions turns sea water into drinkable fresh water, where the sea salt is also extracted and could be used in food preparation, all the while the device produces electricity!
He is currently developing a small, instantaneous water heater that saves energy.
Mr. Ostoja is fighting really hard for all inventors and asks that they are treated as bright entrepreneurs because their inventions could create many jobs one day in production and sales, as well as place Serbia on a map as an innovative country.
Jovan Nikolić
Now, onto the construction. When seeing how hurricanes wreak havoc and destroy entire suburbs, annihilating houses with such ease, engineer Jovan Nikolić spent almost a decade researching thermodynamics, energy saving, resilience and construction laws.
And the end product is 
absolutely amazing – an affordable house where every square inch is thermally isolated and basically – hermetically sealed.
This energy-saving home could very well reduce electricity and heating bills by a multifold, and families could pay them up to 5 time less.
Jovan got a prestigious award from a worldly known construction research and development center – Lafarge, in Lyon, for his invention.
His patent and his construction processes enable building a residence that’s safe from hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and fires. Not just houses are at stake, Nikolić’s patent and way of building can be employed in buildings too.
Currently he is working on opening a small test production plant and automatizing the processes of building. That means that a safe, weatherproof, energy-saving 7 story building could be finished in 90 days instead of a year.
Goran Sajdl
Goran Sajdl, a young inventor from Novi Sad has invented a nifty patent that’s very practical in this day and age. Namely, Goran created CycleCharge, a generator that uses kinetic energy from your bicycle and turns it into power, with which you can charge your phone or anything with an USB. All you need to do is move at the speed of 5 kilometers per hour, or higher, and the generator will do its magic. And you don’t even have to do anything when you are going downhill, the laws of physics will do all the work for you. An idea popped into his head when he was preparing for a cycling road trip. Smartphone battery, as always, was an issue and he had to resort to an external battery which also couldn’t bear the entire trip. So he made his own solution!
He says that the drawback of this invention is the recharge speed, that it’s similar to charging your phone through a USB connected to the computer, but he also states that he is currently working on a new version that will be 50% more efficient.
There are many more inventors in Serbia whose inventions haven’t even seen the light of day, but they should be encouraged to keep changing their country and the entire world – for the better.
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