Strengths and weaknesses of human resources in regional development planning of Vojvodina province

Abstract

Work on Regional development plan of Vojvodina province was an opportunity for the team members to articulate major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in an ex-post analysis and to depict them in a short and illustrative way in SWOT analysis. This paper presents major findings in the area of human resources.

Education Language Choice of Hungarian Ethnic Diaspora Communities in Vojvodina (Serbia)

“…It has become the practice of parents in Hungarian ethnic diaspora communities to choosefor various reasons -the majority (Serbian) language school for their children, despite the fact that Hungarian education is available for them (Joó Horti, Mengyán Pletikoszity, Csernik, & Badis, 2014). Approximately, 20 percent of elementary students of a Hungarian minority background studies in Serbian (Djurdjev, Kicošev, & Vuksanović, 2003); moreover, in certain isolated Hungarian ethnic diaspora communities, more than 50 percent of Hungarian minority students study in Serbian. 2 The issues related to the coexistence of groups with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have long been in the forefront of human geography.…”

“…Vojvodina, as border region offers an interesting case of study for questions of ethnicity and cultural. In the socio-cultural terms of Vojvodina, the region is a unique multicultural, multi-ethnic area, not only in Serbia but also in Europe, regards the ethnic and religious background of its population (Djurdjev et al, 2003;Kovačević, Zakić, & Bubalo-Zivković, 2010;Léphaft, Németh, & Reményi, 2014). One of the characteristics of the border regions is mixed ethnic population (Đerčan, Bubalo-Živković, Solarević, & Šabić, 2017;Szügyi, 2013).…”

Majorities and minorities in former Yugoslav countries at turn of the 21st century

“…This colonization helped government to populate empty plowed fields in northern Serbia and settle houses of German expellees. That is how instead of almost 300000 Germans there were almost 250000 Yugoslavs, among them 1592 from Slovenia and 9975 from Macedonia (Djurdjev, 1994;Djurdjev, Kicoshev, Vuksanovic, 2003).…”