THE REGIONAL FESTIVALS “DISCOVERY” & “GAME CON” WERE HELD IN BELGRADE

From December 5-8, 2019, the BERIN representative attended the two perhaps most important youth festivals in the region: the 13th Science Festival “DISCOVERY” and the 4th Festival of Games and Pop Culture “GAME CON”.

The program of the fourth gaming festival took place in 3 halls and this year surpassed all previous editions in terms of number of countries, participants, visitors, teams and individual players. Namely, 40.000 visitors could visit the 108 stands, ten special arenas where the games and tournaments took place in different competitive disciplines.

As a special part of the program were several regional premieres of new versions of computer games and hardware support that were presented exclusively at the festival. The computer game industry, which was most noticeable at the festival, is the most progressive part of the software industry in the world, whose number of users and segments is constantly growing, which certainly resulted in the presence of all major world brands interested in being associated with this audience.

The Science Festival, this time was located in three halls and took place in parallel with the Festival of Games and Pop Culture, was visited by 30.000 visitors, mostly students, who in the 3-day program witnessed the current achievements of all scientific disciplines presented in one place by 63 scientific institutions: institutes, faculties and schools.

Special emphasis on the 13th festival was played by the participation of young people in scientific experiments through the presentation of their results achieved during the year, but also through fun-educational games, through which they could get in touch with all the areas of science.

Аt the closing of the festival the most successful participants received awerds followed by a music program and the presence of important persons from the scientific and political life of Serbia.

The representative of Berin, Mr. Vancho Damjanski had the opportunity to get acquainted with the current events in the two areas covered by the festivals and to establish contacts with some of the regional representatives of the gaming industry, as well as regional companies whose products are well placed on the global market.