Senior Assistant Alma Jeftić received Go Styria Scholarship

Go Styria Scholarship Scheme aims at the outstanding M.A. and Ph.D., as well as postdoctoral students who are registered at universities in South-Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.), Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova). Geographically, Styria represents a link between the EU and Eastern/South-Eastern Europe, hence it adopts an active role in the scientific and cultural exchange between the countries and has the necessary preconditions to integrate the research competences and to utilize the  opportunities. 

The University of Graz, which was founded in 1585, is Austria's second oldest university and one of the largest in the country. It consists of six faculties and 76 institutes and has around 32 500 students. Alma Jeftić will be working on her research at the Institute of Psychology/Social Psychology Unit during the Fall Semester 2017/18.

Alma is working on social and cognitive aspects of memories of 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina with the aim to explore the connection between memories for significant war events, transgenerational transmission of memories and readiness for reconciliation between two groups of inhabitants of Sarajevo and East Sarajevo while each group consists of two generational cohorts. During her stay she will have the opportunity to collaborate with professors from the Institute of Psychology as well as to present her research during the Doctoral Students' Congress at the University of Graz.

Alma is currently doctoral student in Psychology at the University of Belgrade where she receieved Borislav Lorenc award aimed at the outstanding students of psychology and cognitive science. She was also Senior Research Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Sussex in February 2015.