Serbian organizations joined against COVID19
As COVID-19 is increasingly creating uncertainty in every aspect of our lives, the Serbian tech ecosystem is battling with making sense of where to turn to for help. Due to the efforts of many institutions, organizations, and companies, we have many initiatives working toward a solution for the situation we are in. How to make it easier for our ecosystem to find all the crisis mitigation resources they need in one place.
All Serbian resources about COVID19 in one place
On this page, you will find all the useful resources and contacts for your startup and your employees in Serbia while facing the main identified challenges. This page will be continually updated by the SerbianTech team and if you have a link you think is relevant please share with us for review: info@serbian.tech.
In our next step, we will be focussing on how we can work with our stakeholders to create solutions and further resources to mitigate the impact COVID-19 is having on the ecosystem.
The essential contacts and information points
Contact points
COVID19- Help desk
Contact numbers :
- 064/8945-235
- 011/2684-566
Serbian public health institutes:
Serbian public health institute “Milan Jovanovic Batut” Belgrade
- Contact: 011/2078-677
- Contacts of Public health institutes by city
Advice and information on the coronavirus
Serbian Chamber of Commerce info service
Contact: 0800 808 809
Email: covid19@pks.rs
World Health Organization advice for public
Information Points
- Contact: 19819
- Free contact service for expert advice and recommendation
- Statistics in Serbia (updated daily)
- Digital solidarity
- Government decisions and decrees during a state of emergency
Serbian Business Register Agency (APR) – important notice
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Resources
Business resources
Serbian Government Economy support plan
National Bank of Serbia support plan
Important articles
- TAX
- What you don’t need to pay (BBC News)
- NALED (proposed measures for economy)
- How to prevent virus spreading
- Followup News
Cashflow
- Map of funders of responses to COVID-19
- Raising capital virtually (pitching for startups – tips from founder and VC)
- COVID-19 Managing cash flow during a period of crisis (Deloitte)
People operations
Remote working
Strategy
- Remote Work Emergency Plan (GitLab)
- Setting up remote teams (Fast Company)
- 15 Questions about Remote Working, Answered (Harvard Business Review)
- The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work (Zapier)
- Remote working when you’re not a remote team (Medium)
- How Telecommuting Can Save Your Team: Manage Any Team Remotely (WalkMe)
- Transitioning from Offices to Distributed Teams during a Crisis (John O’Duinn)
- Your guide to working remotely in Slack (Slack)
- 5 Tips to Tackle Business Challenges in Times of COVID-19 (Dept)
Tips & Tools 💡
- How to work remotely without losing your mind (Wired)
- Remote Working: Setting Yourself and Your Teams Up for Success [videos] (LinkedIn)
- Simple Way To Set Up Virtual Event Registrations (Events.com)
- How To Be The Remote Employee That Proves The Stereotypes Aren’t True (Trello)
- New to Working from Home? Here Are Some Tips to Help You Meet Like a Pro (Zoom)
- Resources for companies embracing remote work (GitLab)
How are others handling this? 🌎
- Planning and response (Coinbase)
- Adapting the way we work when offices need to close (Slack)
- Sharing our remote-first processes, tools, and guidelines (Super Evil Megacorp)
- No clue how to handle coronavirus as a startup founder? Here’s what we’re doing (The Next Web)
- Working together when we’re not together (Google)
Employees Resources
Entertainment
Virtual tours
- Palace of Versailles
- Yugoslav Drama Theater (JDP)
- National Museum of Serbia
- Google Art and Culture (visit museums around the world)
- List of museums
Movies and theater performances
Music and concerts
Education
- Courses and podcasts
Child education
- Super school
- Kampster
- Shtreber
- Akademia Uči slobodno
- Preparation for final entrance exam (elementary/high school)
Productivity apps and tools
Citizen help
Assistance to neighbours, the elderly vulnerable groups
Free food delivery
- Cargo contact: 061 17 44 353 i 064 401 78 29
email: pomocnajstarijima@gmail.com (orders from 8am-12pm)
Psychology help – List of over 30 psychologists and therapists available for people affected by the covid19 crisis.
Clinical center of Vojvodina – psychology support service (every day from 8am to 8pm)
Contact:
- 066 822 30 82,
- 066 822 30 83,
- 064 808 35 55,
- 064 802 88 98.
Serbia Hacks Corona! – Call to action
Self-care
- Meditation and mindfulness
- Better sleep
- Motivation
- Fabolous GooglePlay
- Fabolous AppleApps
- Calm
- 10percent
Readings
- COVID-19 An employer’s guide (MERCER)
- Making sense of the Economic Impact of the Coronavirus (Harvard Business Review)
- Enterprise Startups: How to Weather the Storm (Medium)
- Startup survival kit
STARTUP Support (5min survey)
Important to note, we are here altogether. This is the time to show our humanity, to stay healthy and safe and to help each other and those who need help the most. This is the time where new business collaboration and opportunities can bloom, we can stay resilient to failure if we are flexible enough to develop a new mindset and adapt to changes.
If you have any suggestions, something sparked your interest or have a specific question for us, please, feel free to reach out, we are always happy to talk!
